Netflix Dracula Episode 1

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                Dracula Sexuality In Original Book VS Netflix Series 
Getting blood from someone else is seemed to be sexual activity in both the book and the show. This is why in the book Dracula seemed to take blood from females. The readers never got any hints or evidence of Dracula bitting any male characters. So it was hard to question his sexuality because the author made sure there weren't signs of homosexuality. The closest thing we got of Dracula stealing blood from a male was from the transfusion Lucy got but he got it through a female character still.


In the Netflix series, a character goes and pops that question as soon as the first episode starts. Making the viewers think about it the whole time. Cause the first Victim of Draculas was Jonathan which is a male character. What made Dracula look gayer is how he was interacting with Jonathan. He would be too close to him and touch him intimately and passionately as well.  There was a bunch of evidence proving Dracula was drinking his blood. There was a scene where Jonathan was dreaming about Mina and him having sex but then Mina turned into Dracula on top of him drinking his blood. Which looked very sexual by the way. 

 Everything Dracula does makes you question it by the way he talks to Jonathan too. At one point he even calls Jonathan Jonny which only Jonathan's finance calls him. Also, look at all these photos Dracula looks seductive in all of them.  I feel like Jonathan in the TV series switched roles with Mina from the book.



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  1. Paige TreibleyFebruary 23, 2020 at 5:32 PM

    I liked your examples you used and while watching these scenes as well, I noticed how intimate Dracula was being with Jonathan. I didn't feel as if Jonathan switched roles with Mina but I did feel as if he was treated more feminine in the Netflix series than the book because they needed to show that the line of where Dracula's sexuality is blurred.

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  2. Maura SullivanFebruary 24, 2020 at 4:03 PM

    Dracula in the series was definitely sexualized. He openly flirted with Jonathan and sometimes acted like Mina to make Jonathan do whatever Dracula wanted him to do. I think you did a good job pointing these things out!

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