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"We Are All God's Madmen": The Orchestration Of Gazing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Diana E. Sullivan
"We Are All God's Madmen": The Orchestration Of Gazing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Diana E. Sullivan
Graduate English Association New Voices Conference 2008
To perceive how Dracula can perform his puppeteer act, it is helpful to seek answers to several questions: Who is the subject of the cinematic gaze? Who is its object? Who is experiencing pleasure? How is this pleasure achieved? What are the pleasures and consequences of gazing? Of sexual performance? These questions comprise one overarching idea: control. Who is in control? Who is being controlled? Dracula controls the other characters, narcissistically creating a blasphemous cadre of figures who worship his intellectual power and sexuality. Because they both deal in violence and control, sadism and masochism both subvert and pervert traditional …