Paradise Lost, Mansfield Park, Little Women, Lady Audley's Secret, A Little Princess, every fairy tale, every Shakespeare tragedy, every Gothic novel from The Castle of Otranto to Wuthering Heights to Dracula to The Phantom of the Opera... in all literary fandoms, it's the same song from all readers and critics: virtue sucks, evil rocks; heroes are boring, villains are awesome; any restraint, reason, or morality is always wrong, but all passion is always right all the time.
