When he wakes up there are three women around him studying him. He is very tired and despite being warned by Dracula himself he falls asleep. As the man is looking around the castle he stumbles upon a room. In the excerpt from “Dracula” by Bram Stoker there is a man that is in Dracula’s castle. They described sucking blood as a “kiss”. In more movies inspired by Stoker woman were portrayed as seductresses that seduce their victim before the kill. And to continue this, more people were inspired by Stoker’s Dracula and that began the sexualization of the vampire. Gordon Melton, explains that in the original Dracula by Bram Stoker, he unknowingly sexualizes the vampires. In “Sexuality and the Vampire” the author, J.

What people find repulsive about monsters is they have the capability to have human traits but can sometimes be questioned if they are moral by societies standards. Monsters are loathed but at the same time, they are alluring because they are out of the ordinary. In the article, Cohen says, “the linking of monstrosity with the forbidden makes the monster all the more appealing as a temporary egress from constraint… We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy its freedom, and perhaps it sublime despair” (Cohen 190). People find monsters appealing because they have the freedom to do whatever they want.

In “Fear of the Monster Is Really a Kind of Desire” by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, he explains that we all desire the monsters portrayed in movies.

The Vampire Book by J. Gordon Melton