If the Victorian monsters we discussed throughout the chapter had anything to do with the opposite sex, they usually treated them as toys or like objects in which they must seek revenge. For example, Ms. Havisham and Pip. Ms. Havisham wants nothing more than to destroy pip. She is really rooting to hurt him bad. And do not get me started on Dorian Grey. He did not care one way or the other if he hurt woman or not. He could not have cared less. I think he found joy in hurting woman. And then there is Dracula. He saw woman as objects that could be possessed and controlled. He killed some to prove that point. Victorian authors were not fond of the opposite sex. In any of their stories really.

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