Dracula

• Drac — predestined villain
  • Threat of foreign, wealth
  • Threat to UK, British
  • culture & civilisation
• 3 Vamps
• Lucy
• Renfield

Bloody Chamber

• Erl King
  • Threat to liberty of women in society
  • antithesis

Context of Villains

Jack the Ripper — Londoners

White chapel murders

Foreign invaders : drac and Erl King

Money - anti-semitism / Drac’s cascading gold

Degeneration — criminal : Drac’s appearence

3 vamps: Syphilis outbreak villainising women

Simone de Beauvoir — Carter influenced: Conditioning of society “You’re not a woman until you become one”

Drac. and Lady in House of Love — predestined villains, Foreigners bad rep. Wealth - Middle class hate of aristocracy

LiHoL - Women vilified Lucy - Women vilified

• Not conforming was punished, promiscuous women labelled Syphilis outbreak blamed women when it was men at fault