Allison Wallace

The Countess

The Countess is a parody of the story of Dracula. The prominent theme of this piece is how women are often not thought to be suitable for positions of power due to their emotions. In many political spaces around the world women are not seen as valid contenders because of their sex, their values and policies completely ignored in place of how they were born. For this piece the gender of Dracula has been switched, this is important as Dracula is a Count and in the original story was able to get away with as much as he did mostly likely due to his status and wealth. Many vampires in popular media also have the ability to control the minds of mortal beings, which is exactly what Femme Dracula is doing to her male servants, taking advantage of their weak minds to make them do her bidding.