GENDER CRITICISM

In the Dracula, middle chapters, Bram Stoker spoke about the manly power and the women's helplessness, which we all noticed while we read the text. When Dr. Van, he said to Arthur, the man, who has young, strong blood and Lucy , as an sweet , weak girl which shows the gender difference and In " Kiss me with Those Red Lips" , Christopher Craft, mentioned about Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , who observed in Carmilla 1872 that "the vampire is prone to be fascinated with an engrossing............."by the gradual approaches of an artful courtship" and recognized " the analogy between monstrosity and sexual desire that would prove, .......future readings of vampirism". I kind of connected Crafts acknowledgement to Stoker's Dracula, when count ( the vampire) , in the form of a bat, always goes to the windows of Lucy's room and make noises through his flapping. I was thinking that why did he pick Lucy, why didn't he pick her mother, i guess may be because Lucy is young and beautiful girl, with pink cheeks which shows that she have a lot of blood. This specifies that the evil(vampire) loves blood and on the other hand sexual desire, can be noticed in Dracula, where Arthur wanted to kiss Lucy, but Dr. Van stopped him, as he did not wanted Arthur to kiss Lucy’s red Lips. The reason why is that, i guess because he had an idea that there is something wrong.