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Gothic writing remains fascinated by objects and practices that atomic number 18negative, irrational and degraded. How far would you agree with this disputation? Jane Eyre? WHY the focus, why the preoccupation?IntroductionIt is typical of Gothic writing to be fascinated by objects andpractices that are negative, irrational and dissipated.(define key termin terms of gothic elements) Such objects and practices are usuallyshunned by the society, much of which are very controversial. However,the Gothic being didactic in nature uses these objects and practicesto contend and convey a certain moral agenda. In this essay, in thecontext of Charlotte BrontesJane Eyre and Bram Stokers Dracula, weare going to explore the different objects and practices in thesenovels that are negative, irrational and immoral and show how they canconvey a moral agenda. There are several objects and practices inwhich portrays the immoral obesssions??? of Victorian society.Practices such as polygamy, voyeurism and rape, , incest and theOedipus complex are such of immoral practices in which shows that theGothic is fascinated in its writing.Polygamy is regarded immoral in Victorian times as men aretraditonalluy monogamysupposed to have relationships with more thanone woman. The blood transfusion scene in Stokers Dracula of Lucy byArthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, Van Helsing and Doctor Seward depictsthe controversies of polygamy.In varlet 225, Arthur claims that he felt, since (the bloodtransfusion), as if they too had been really married and that she washis wife in the sight of God. This shows that Arthur, in Freudianterms, is already married during the transfusion, along with theother men. If the idea of transfusing as a providential practice ofmarriage, the fact that, the other three men had likewise transferredblood to her would mean that they too have married her. This fulfilsLucys desire of letting a young woman marry three men as many want her,as it has been said in page 81.Voye urism and rape, in which is regarded as an immoral act is alsoshown in Dracula in which the act of staking Lucys heart is accordingRoth (199) is relatively explicit and full of sexuality. When thestake is driven into her heart, she lapses into an orgasmic-likestate, as it is quoted in page 277, The Thing in the coffin writhedand a hideous blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips.Females being sexually open are regarded as immoral during theVictorian era. There are several examples showing Lucy being sexuallyopen, as such in page 80, You think me as a dire flirt though Icant help feeling a sort of exaltation that two men were interested