"Dracula", written by Bram Stoker and first published in 1897, is a classic novel, although it has only come to be accepted as anything more than `just another gothic novel' for the last 3 decades. In these 30 years, shifts in values and perspective have caused "Dracula" to be a much studied and appreciated novel. People have looked at the novel from different views and seen that value can be taken from the novel using a number of metaphors from the text.

Stoker's text presents the reader with a window through which they can see the views and attitudes of the Victorian society of that time. These views and attitudes are presented through the characters in "Dracula."

One of these perspectives, or readings, shows that the novel can be used to support the feminist theories, as well as object to them. "Dracula" is certainly not a feminist text, but nor is...