Dracula Sexuality Quotes

I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes. The fair girl went on her knees, and bent over me, fairly gloating. 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, 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. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed to fasten on my throat. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstacy and waited – waited with beating heart.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 3. At Dracula’s castle, Jonathan Harker has a vision or dream, in which he is seduced by three sexually aggressive, predatory, vampire women. In this first supernatural act in the novel, Harker is the passive victim, a reversal of traditional gender roles.

There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, "Lucy! Lucy!" and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 8. Mina follows the sleepwalking Lucy out of the house to the cemetery, where she sees the nightgowned Lucy half-reclined over a tombstone with the shadowy figure of Dracula bending over her. The sexual implications here are pretty obvious, with Dracula’s attack on Lucy very much in the nature of a sexual assault.

No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own lifeblood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 10. Dr. John Seward after he supplies his blood to Lucy Westenra for the second blood transfusion by Van Helsing. They do not tell Lucy’s fiancé Arthur Holmwood of the development. The transfusion works – "It was with a feeling of personal pride that I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid cheeks and lips," as Seward puts it. Like with Dracula’s vampire acts, Lucy’s transfusions of blood from the men are seen as rather sexual.

In a sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice, such as I had never heard from her lips, "Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 12. As Lucy is being transformed into a vampire, she becomes more sexualized and daring. In a sexy voice she asks Arthur for a kiss. As Arthur bends over to kiss her, Van Helsing saves him by dragging him away from Lucy.

We recognized the features of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 16. Dr. Seward cannot believe the change in Lucy Wesenra when he observes her as a vampire in the graveyard. The once sweet and virtuous young girl has transformed into a voluptuous, wanton creature of evil. A testament to Dracula’s power to take something good and turn it into evil.

She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said "Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!"
There was something diabolically sweet in her tones, something of the tingling of glass when struck-which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 16. Lucy Westenra, in her undead form, appears to Arthur Holmwood and his friends when they visit her tomb to free her soul. They shudder with horror at the sight of the devilish vampire, that once was the pure and innocent Lucy. Dracula has now turned her into a predatory, highly sexual creature.

As for Arthur, he seemed under a spell; moving his hands from his face, he opened wide his arms. She was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix. She recoiled from it, and, with a suddenly distorted face, full of rage, dashed past him as if to enter the tomb.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 16. When Lucy appears as a voluptuous and sexy vampire to Arthur Holmwood and the others, Arthur is passively drawn to the creature who beckons him to come with her. That is until Van Helsing intervenes with his crucifix to repel her.

The thing in the coffin writhed, and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions. The sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 16. In one of the most disconcerting scenes in the novel, Arthur Holmwood drives a stake through the undead vampire Lucy’s heart before she is beheaded and her mouth filled with garlic. Arthur was Lucy’s fiancé while she lived and the four men present agree that he is the right person for the job. There is a heavy sexual symbolism to this scene, with the stake representing a phallic symbol. Bodily fluids flow in the form of blood from Lucy’s heart. The beautiful and innocent Lucy Westenra was the evil Dracula’s first victim in England. The vampire hunters carry out their ritual on Lucy to save her soul.

On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor. Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 21. Dr. Seward describes the shocking scene that he and the others witness after breaking down the door to the Harkers’ bedroom. Jonathan Harker is in a stupor. His wife Mina has been bitten on the neck by Dracula. The Count has violated the sanctity of the Harkers’ marriage bed by attacking and biting Mina there. This is nothing less than rape.

With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension. His right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 21. In one of the most horrific scenes in the novel, Mina’s friend Dr. John Seward describes how he and Van Helsing break into Mina’s bedroom one night. Mina is kneeling on the edge of her bed while a tall figure, dressed in black, is bending over her. Mina has been bitten on the neck by Dracula and he is holding her head to a wound in his own chest, forcing her to drink the blood pouring from it. The final simile using the kitten and the child underlines Dracula’s power to take something pure and taint and distort it. The attack on Mina is viewed as a form of rape.
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