... in Castle Dracula are overtly seductive. These undead women are unlike any of the living women in the novel. Whereas Mina and Lucy are models of virtue and purity, these "weird sisters" are voluptuous, aggressive, and ravenous. The position that the vampire assumes over Harker's body suggests a sexual act, and this display of female sexual aggression both attracts and repulses Harker ... . There is a form of erotic love shared between the three weird sisters' and Johnathon, when he almost sacrifices himself to them, before Dracula stops them. This love is nothing like the love between Jo...

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