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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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Thank you We sneak in Dracula The male characters Alas

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shmoop dracula paint's men in a pretty narrow venue as

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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

00:30

marriage marrying them protecting them were vamping is not necessarily

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the way If you're looking for a novel about the

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intricate dynamics of male female relationships i probably wouldn't go

00:44

to dracula or to the gothic no in general it

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sort of is premised on almost like a man icky

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and distinction between men and women Many meaning sort of

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like a black and white distinction between men and women

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It's usually sort of a woman in peril that activates

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men to protect her in most gothic novels and this

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one is pretty much the same It's dudley do right

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rescuing now on the railroad track Basically exactly except that

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nell was taken by a vampire and she's like in

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prisons in an italian villa or something like that But

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it also just say a lot about how men work

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together The crew of light is sort of a man

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amends grouping that has a purpose and execute um it's

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also about men working alone Dracula's a solitary worker he's

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a little bit you know only venture capital k is

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My guess is commodities are a little different Yeah so

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it's about how men deal with modernity It's different dracula

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deals with modernity much differently than the crew of light

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deals with modernity How does dracula portray men in the 00:02:06.893 --> [endTime] novel Say what

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