dracula

• New Woman challenged traditional norms and expectations regarding feminine sexuality
• The New Woman was often educated, intellectual, and financially independent
• Victorian ideals of womanhood in England emphasized women staying home, taking care of children, cooking, and being subservient to their husbands
• Mina Harker is financially independent, educated, intellectual, fearless, and a working woman.
• Lucy is not independent, not educated, vapid, and weak.
• "I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!" - jonathon, chapter 2
• "she put the rosary round my neck, and said, “For your mother’s sake,” " - jonathon, chapter 1
• Arthur! Oh my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me! - lucy to arthur
• There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal - jonathon about dracula's brides
• Lucy Westenra, but yet how changes. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness
• she makes a very beautiful corpse - someone about lucy
• what did that poor sweet girl do that you should want to cast such dishonour on her grave? are you made that speak such things or am i mad that listen to them? dont dare to think more of such a desecration; i shall not give my consent to anything you do. i have a duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage and, by god i shall do it - arthur

  doesnt believe that lucy coudlve done it - underestimation of women going from traditional victorian woman to the new woman