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Bonus 2: Victorian Class and Gender

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The Anxiety of Female Sexuality

Lucy is sort of embodies this angel in the house you know with her beautiful blonde hair and there's that image of like her when she dies initially I think. She's got the beautiful golden curls and fan health and creepily brushes it at one point certainly so she's that innocent figure and she's infantilized a lot. There are moments early on before she even begins her transformation where she says things that are a little bit like that's not very uh sort of stereotypical she says something half jokingly but it's about why can't I have three husbands yepThat suggests an excessive desire I think and it's almost like it's Bram Stoker playing out what he imagines the

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