# Gender and Power in The Vampire

> Theme guide for The Vampire by John William Polidori.

The book explores female virtue, vulnerability, and agency, contrasting the 'domestic virtues' of some women with the 'vices' of others, while the vampire exerts predatory power over both sexes.

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