agree

• women are victims because they are marginalised by the patriarchy/men
• traditional gothic genre is characterised by a vulnerable and naive women character
• snow child

  focuses on how women's existence is for pleasure and desire of men

  • ' i wish i had a girl as white as snow... as red as blood... as black as that bird's feather

  embodies this as a passive character whose death is of minimal significance to the Count and Countess

  • as she 'bleeds, screams, falls'
• infantilisation in bloody chamber

  constant treatment of a child with restrictions within the castle despite it being hers through marriage

  • 'baby musnt play with grown ups' toys' + 'he dangled the keys tantalizingly above my head' = placing the marquis is a position of power where he can control narrator's actions

  - disturbing as marquis treats her like a child but expects her to provide sexually benefitting experiences to him
• lucy

  socialisation of a 'good woman' in the victorian era teaches her to be passive and submissive to men

  - weakness evident when she becomes dracula's victim
• lucy's transformation from a virtuous young woman to a sexually charged vampire highlights tension between societal expectations and female desire