Through the perspective or lens of historical and/or cultural theory, discuss why society is so fascinated with vampires. You may want to address why vampires are considered ugly even though most...

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Title: Why Society is so fascinated with Vampires
Contents
Introduction    3
Why Society is so Fascinated with Vampires    3
Conclusion    6
Works Cited    7
Introduction
Evil characters from time and again have created a fascinating attraction among the audience. The exact reason has however have never been known as why the ugly looking creatures such as Vampires or Dracula have been acted on screen or in different plays by many good-looking actors (Cohen). The project is about the reason why society is so much fascinated or attracted to the vampires. Further discussion will be made, upon which evil character has become much popular. Lastly, the essay would also analyze the impact these evil characters have on the society, as there are many aspects, which can lead due to the fascination of the society on these characters.
Why Society is so Fascinated with Vampires
Characterizing evil in our society has an importance because Waugh has discussed the reason after analyzing the articles from Bram Stoker’s that Dracula is not simply any cult fiction, rather a time circle containing the popular thoughts, ideas and beliefs of the Victorian era that showcases the society during that period. During that period, Dracula focuses primarily on the concepts of lust, sex and evil as they were viewed as a strongly conservative society during 19th and 20th century (King).
During those period homosexuality, sex were seen as conservative topics and continuous emphasis were put upon the importance of awareness while those matters pops up and to represent a modest society those topics were not discussed. These were seen as if they cannot be discussed and cannot be explored more openly hence, an evil shadow was placed upon them. During the early mid 20th century, the women’s power was very limited (Tenga and Zimmerman). The society maintains a strict standard for both genders as the male counterparts receives more freedom, pleasures than the female counterparts. Further, Victorian society further enforced that the male superiority and dominance over women, which in turn also provides countless excuses to justify the male sexuality and carnal urges, which women are, expected to suppress them from expressing them.
In those periods, it was never expected to behave sexually assertive and during that conservative society, it becomes frightening to see a decent woman behaving in certain way. The sexual preference and drive was that women should not have those and male should have for reproduction process only and there is no place for pleasure. Zwart has discussed that this kind of mentality supported the conclusion that the female sex drive has no purpose and there is no point of its existence. Even it was also a trend during those times that women should be chastised for being unnatural during the...