The authors try hard in this book to paint a more modern portrait of women, but they betray themselves constantly. One early scene has Dr. Seward a helpless witness to the inhuman torture of an innocent girl. So what does Seward do? He bloodies his hand with his knife because, he thinks, if he can't save the girl, he can at least share her pain. More subtly, they describe Bathory's strength as ten times that of a man. Since we get no description of Dracula's strength, we must defer to Stoker, who more than once put his strength at twice that. All the women are inordinately beautiful and alluring, of course, and though Mina refers to Bathory's sexual preference as unnatural, she discovers in one scene that all cats are grey in the dark.
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