In Class Assignment

In recent passages of Beowulf, I have come to an understanding that women hold the sexual desire for men. These women are able to control their own sexuality until they married. However, even through marriage women still maintain erotic power. Before marriage to the king, Modthryth holds a sense of fear and desire toward these men that she attracts. Modthryth seems quite strong in defending her sexuality until her sexuality becomes her partner’s. In chapter 3 of Dracula, the women vampires play a part in the sexual aggressors as well. The three women hold a desire for Jonathan as he’s terror is mixed with feelings of lust. Women are of course a sexual desire for men and unknowingly hold the erotic power to control their sexuality.