fascinating = intresting, captivating,

villains = evil, hated

General

• Dynamic between good and evil

Dracula

• Irregular charisma
• Seen as a “minister of patriarchy perverting women”
  • Feminism yet to come (1897)
  • new woman contravertial
  • Dracula “they are mine to command”
• Greatest villainy is the misuse of Victorian women (3 vamps, lucy)
• Provide literary tension, so is therefore not straight forward
• Villains able to break social ideals and morality codes, while the ‘good’ characters are restrained by the society at the time

Ambiguity of good / evil in gothic

• The Company of Wolves

  Sexual freedom