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** Alternatively, Carmilla declares her love for Laura numerous times, who in turn rejects it. Laura also says she is at once attracted to Carmilla's company but repulsed by her advances. Is this because Laura is genuinely disinterested in women, or is it because of her own uncertainty and insecurity in a society that stigmatizes same sex relationships? Or is her desire for Carmilla's friendship due to some glamour or spell?
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** Alternatively, Carmilla declares her love for Laura numerous times, who in turn rejects it. Laura also says she is at once attracted to Carmilla's company but repulsed by her advances. Is this because Laura is genuinely disinterested uninterested in women, or is it because of her own uncertainty and insecurity in a society that stigmatizes same sex relationships? Or is her desire for Carmilla's friendship due to some glamour or spell?
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Let's be honest, the scene with the mountebank is pretty amusing [[BullyingADragon in context]]. The guy walks right up to a vampire and [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu sells her]] an [[AllNaturalSnakeOil anti-vampire charm]]. He also is the only person in the entire story who notices that Carmilla has fangs...but [[ComicallyMissingThePoint his only reaction]] to this is to offer to file them down for her. She throws a rather bratty temper tantrum in response.
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** Notably, at the time the book as written and set, which was prior to the popularization and association between female homosexuality within Victorian society and both the idea of it as a definitive "sin", as well certain behaviors being inherently romantic, Carmilla's way of acting with Laura isn't actually all that uncommon among young, extremely close women of the time and of their social standing, which would explain why Laura's father never bats an eye at their behavior until after Carmilla is revealed to be a vampire and would have been why there was even a question of if she was attracted to Laura in the first place in Le Fanu's day, even as a fig leaf. That Carmilla feels an attraction to her is almost unquestionable, but by the standards of the time she was actually behaving akin to a man who comes off as just very, very close with say, one of his sports teammates. It very well may have flown entirely over Laura's head.
