From A Female’s Point Of View: Misogyny In Vampire Literature

Part I of Essay
Misogyny is the mistreatment of women. Even though it can occur in any type of literature, nothing can be so vital in making a vampire story work the way misogyny does. Although this is true, I do plan to take a feminist point of view by connecting the four stories that ....

Part II of Essay
.... age, and so gentle and nice.” “She is absolutely beautiful,” threw in Mademoiselle, who had peeped for a moment into the stranger’s room.(Le Fanu 83) This quote is the first description of the attraction a person is vulnerable to when they first look at Carmilla. When Laura encounters Carmilla for the first time, Carmilla is sitting up in her bed by candle light. Once again a reference is made to Carmilla’s beauty when she is described as having a “slender pretty figure enveloped in the soft silk dressing-gown, embroidered with flow ....