“She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:—“Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!” There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck-which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another. As for Arthur, he seemed under a spell; moving his hands from his face, he opened wide his arms.”

The sexuality in the novel is very apparent and in this section it shows through quite well. Dracula makes his threats real as Lucy, a now blood and sex-starved vampire is pursuing her fiance. This is reminiscent of the “weird sisters” with Harker earlier in the novel, using the promises of sexual gratification to get what they want. The men’s collective weakness in fending off the sexual advances leaves the men vulnerable with possibility of losing their reason, control, and even their lives. It is interesting to see the oversuxualized woman in a novel from this time period, and it is one of the first times that  I have been exposed to something like this. Dracula has been a lot different than the other novels because now there are multiple “monsters” instead of the singular force in the others.

Is this an exposé of the nature of men, overly sexulaizing women? Did Stoker write Dracula with the sexula undertones to call our attention?