Bram Dijkstra analyzes the character of Count Dracula as a less-civilized, feticide committing, brutish male who hails from the east. According to the author of the essay, Dracula's Backlash, Dijkstra also describes the vampiric epitome as a threat to the common ways of life in western society. Dracula only feasted on the vital fluid of women while showing no appetite or remote concern for the males. On page 461 of the Norton edition of Dracula written by Bram Stoker, Dracula is said to be "centuries old, and therefore not surprisingly looking like an old man." Perhaps the Count only feeds on the blood of women because it is the only liquid that holds the secret to his eternal youth. When Dracula is deprived of his voluptuous drink his true age begins to show, however; another darker side of the man emerges and disassociates him from the common appearance of man itself. This necessity for women symbolizes the dependency man has on women and the degradation of male with the lack of female. The more time that passes between Dracula's meals the more bestial he becomes. Stated on page 24 of the book, Harker noticed something strange about the Count "strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm." This unique feature is merely one of many animalistic traits held by Dracula. The word "peculiarly" is used multiple times in the description of the man simply because he was like no other man. From the nature detailed on pages 23-24 the reader can only but imagine a man-like creature: " Hair growing scantily round the temples, but profusely elsewhere.", "eyebrows were massive, almost meeting over the nose", "with peculiarly sharp white teeth", "nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point." (Stoker 23-24) With quotes like this it is hard not to conceive a troglodytic era man. The quotes about his eyebrows almost meeting in the middle and the unkempt nails also suggests a recluse. On a polar opposite note Dracula is detailed a