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Boys will be boys...unless they’re too busy being vampires. Check out this video to learn more about the male characters in Dracula.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Dracula The male characters Alas
- 00:11
shmoop dracula paint's men in a pretty narrow venue as
- 00:19
they relate tau tau women How does dracula portray men
- 00:25
in the novel In dracula it seems like men deal
- 00:27
with women either by asking them to asking them for
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- 00:30
marriage marrying them protecting them were vamping is not necessarily
- 00:38
the way If you're looking for a novel about the
- 00:41
intricate dynamics of male female relationships i probably wouldn't go
- 00:44
to dracula or to the gothic no in general it
- 00:49
sort of is premised on almost like a man icky
- 00:54
and distinction between men and women Many meaning sort of
- 01:01
like a black and white distinction between men and women
- 01:03
It's usually sort of a woman in peril that activates
- 01:06
men to protect her in most gothic novels and this
- 01:09
one is pretty much the same It's dudley do right
- 01:12
rescuing now on the railroad track Basically exactly except that
- 01:18
nell was taken by a vampire and she's like in
- 01:22
prisons in an italian villa or something like that But
- 01:27
it also just say a lot about how men work
- 01:29
together The crew of light is sort of a man
- 01:33
amends grouping that has a purpose and execute um it's
- 01:39
also about men working alone Dracula's a solitary worker he's
- 01:43
a little bit you know only venture capital k is
- 01:48
My guess is commodities are a little different Yeah so
- 01:51
it's about how men deal with modernity It's different dracula
- 01:56
deals with modernity much differently than the crew of light
- 01:58
deals with modernity How does dracula portray men in the 00:02:06.893 --> [endTime] novel Say what
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