New Woman as Seen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

IF 0.6 Q3 LINGUISTICS
Rheavanya Winandhini, R. Jatmiko
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Abstract

This paper discusses the influence of feminism in the classic Victorian novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The New Woman is a feminist ideal that appeared in the 19th century, more specifically amidst the rise of the first wave of feminism. The method of research used in this study covers close reading of the source material and analyzing the characters of the novel through the perspective of the New Woman ideals. The female characters in Bram Stoker’s Dracula portrayed the New Woman characteristic to some degree. Women’s independence, intellect, hyperfemininity, and hypersexuality, are some of the aspects of the movement that go against the norm and values of women in Victorian Britain, such as Mina’s “man’s brain” and Lucy’s hyperfemininity, while the Brides of Dracula provide contrast as the oppressed women with their submissive and compliant attitude towards him. Without erasing their representation of these New Woman ideals, Mina and Lucy also portrayed the complexity and dimensionality of being a woman in the Victorian era; their beauty and appeal were praised while their more “unwomanly” aspects present some threats towards men.
从布拉姆·斯托克的《德古拉》看新女性
本文探讨了女性主义对布拉姆·斯托克的维多利亚时代经典小说《德古拉》的影响。新女性是19世纪出现的一种女权主义理想,更具体地说,是在第一波女权主义兴起的时候出现的。本研究采用的研究方法包括细读原著,并从新女性理想的角度分析小说中的人物。布拉姆·斯托克的《德古拉》中的女性角色在一定程度上体现了新女性的特征。女性的独立、智慧、超女性化和性欲亢进,是这场运动中与维多利亚时代英国女性的规范和价值观背道而驰的一些方面,比如米娜的“男人的大脑”和露西的超女性化,而德古拉的新娘则作为受压迫的女性对他的顺从和顺从的态度提供了对比。米娜和露西在不抹去她们对这些新女性理想的表现的同时,也描绘了维多利亚时代女性的复杂性和维度;她们的美丽和吸引力受到称赞,而她们更“不像女人”的方面则对男性构成了威胁。
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Mental Lexicon
Mental Lexicon LINGUISTICS-
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期刊介绍: The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following: Models of the representation of words in the mind Computational models of lexical access and production Experimental investigations of lexical processing Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment. Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain Lexical development across the lifespan Lexical processing in second language acquisition The bilingual mental lexicon Lexical and morphological structure across languages Formal models of lexical structure Corpus research on the lexicon New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research.
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