Carmilla Thesis

The story of Carmilla begins when a carriage loses control and crashes near the castle where young Laura lives with her father. Inside, there is an unconscious woman, who is later revealed as Carmilla. Carmilla's mother convinces Laura's father to let Carmilla stay with them while she finishes her journey, so when Carmilla wakes up she is already under the custody of Laura's father. Carmilla is described as a beautiful and charming young woman and she and Laura immediately grow to be very close friends. However, Carmilla's intentions towards Laura are not platonic, and her romantic advances are a constant in their relationship, even though Laura seems oblivious by them. During Carmilla's stay in the nearby towns, young women have begun dying

While Carmilla stays at Laura’s house, Laura has dreams of a black giant cat lurking on her room or of a dark figure that climbs on her bed with her, and the reader is supposed to think that these dreams are memories of Carmilla hunting Laura at night. If Laura’s dreams are considered true attacks by Carmilla then one could argue that Carmilla has refused to drink Laura’s blood for almost a month since arriving to Laura’s house since the creature doesn’t bite her until a month has passed, and the bite was not fatal. In fact, Carmilla stays with Laura and her family for almost three months, in which there are zero mortal attacks in the castle. In addition, the attacks in the “dreams” are most often performed by a mysterious shadow that never shows their true form, but the times when the figure that lurks becomes Carmilla, she never bites her. As a result, we could argue that if Carmilla is truly attacking Laura, for some reason she doesn’t kills her quickly, like Berthe for example, or maybe Carmilla is not attacking Laura at all and there is another vampire that is killing people and Carmilla is being blamed for those