3 Female Vampires

'There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth.'
1. Human love for the unknown, 'the other;' and the supernatural
2. hamartia
3. Emphasies human greed. Jonathan has everything a Victorian man could ask for
4. 'Jonathan appears far more concerned about the vampire women - they are more horrible and fascinating to him' - Phillis. A. Roth
The fair girl went on her knees, and bent over me, fairly gloating.'
1. Some critics refer to them as the 'weird sisters'
2. Similar to the witches in Macbeth
3. Lady of the House of Love
'There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive.'
1. emphasis on their sexuality
2. Uncanny
3. Similar description to Lucy after her change
4. 'the female vampires are equivalent to the fallen women of 18th/19th Century fiction' - Carol Fry
'arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.'
1. Animalistic
2. Less human - makes the reader slightly less afraid
3. The Other
4. Sexual description - lust
5. Wolf-Alice
6. 'the female body was often the focal point for the construction of women's roles' - Helena Michie
'All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips'
1. Neglect to conform to Classic Victorian society and convention
2. Power of three
3. Like the holy trinity - juxtaposition
4. Lady of the House of Love
5. Snow child
'wanton'
1. concentration on their sexuality
2. No focus on their personalities. Women are nothing more than sexual objects
3. 'The novel's appeal derives from its hostility toward female sexuality' - Phillis. A. Roth
'sisters'
1. Not individually named
2. Lack of individual autonomy
'high aquiline noses, like the Count's'
1. similarity
2. suggestion of similar charcater
3. supernatural
4. realted?
  1. Theory of blonde being wife ad two dark haired vampiresses being daughters
'wiggling bag'
1. lack of human morals
'Come, sister. Come to us. Come!’'
1. anaphora - ritualistic
'weet tingling tones that Jonathan said were of the intolerable sweetness of the water glasses'
1. uncanny

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