I’ve been reading Dracula, and it’s truly horrifying. The Count is extremely vile and cruel and conniving and I yearn to see his demise (NO SPOILERS PLS). It makes me want to kill a vampire irl, and ensure that those fiends are no more. The problem is that vampires aren’t real, so my righteous hatred and contempt has nowhere to go. So how can I find an avenue to fulfill my desire?
Literature vampires are a metaphor for landlords. It couldn’t be more obvious in Dracula. Not just because he’s a lord who owns land. The protagonist is a solicitor and Dracula’s whole evil plan is to buy various properties in England. Multiple chapters are about him learning English laws and customs around buying and holding land and houses.