How are the succubus and incubus related to Dracula?
I'm writing an essay for my english class over the novel Dracula and I was given the terms succubus and incubus to write about. After reading the novel, I would think Dracula is the incubus and the 3 girl vampires and Lucy are the succubus's, but after researching the technical definition of those terms, I'm not 100% sure how they go together and am quite lost. If someone could just give me their opinion of how those two terms relate to the novel and set me on some sort of path, I'd really appreciate it.
An Incubus is a male demon which preys on sleeping women to feed on them sexually and a succubus is the female form of this demon.
the origins of these demons may have formed from the medieval ages when a woman's sexual deeds and actions were misconstrued as evil and there for the work of the devil or demons.
Now as for the correlation to Bram Stokers Dracula, I suppose you could relate the two demons to the story.
Seeing how it is only after Dracula begins feeding off of Lucy that she becomes extremely sexual and taken into account her substantiated decline in health. That could denote Dracula being some form of Incubus, however; Dracula did not feed on sexual energy but on blood.
As for the 3 women you are referring to those would be the brides of Dracula, again the book describes an encounter with Harker that could be considered sexual in nature but here again they weren't feeding off the sexual energy but the blood.
Both Dracula and his brides used hallucinations to subdue their prey and the easiest would be sexual gratification. But unlike incubi and succubi they (Dracula and brides) feed from blood not sexual energy.
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