ENGL 4300Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Apex Predator, Heterosexuality, Queer Theory
18 Mar 2016
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Miriam is the only vampire in the film. Cannot turn other vampires, only extends their lives and she cannot let them go so they are all in her house. Doesn"t usually bite people only during the sex scene. The opening scene establishes how miriam and john use sex in order to prey on people. John"s inability to feed as he ages analogous to importance. Manipulative female predator who seduces young women and young men . Played with in the flower duet scene. Substitution of incestual love for lesbian love could also be a means of trivializing it and valorizing heterosexuality at any cost . Alice as an implication of pedophilic love to serve the same purpose. Tom establishes a heterosexual norm which is disturbed by the presence of. Redemption of heterosexual love from the threat of the lesbian . The male hero swooping in to save the woman.
