The Change Of Werewolves In The Originals

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Werewolves Monsters have both been seen as good and bad since they have been created. Monsters have been seen in many different ways from the creator who made it out of wanting to tell his story in a different way or the readers/watchers who relate them to their own lives to make them get through what they need. The werewolves in The Originals can be seen as murderers or to other people as a side of all of us that needs to come out at times, it just depends on how you look at it. Werewolves are seen in other ways like my view on what interests us towards werewolves, what makes them scary and how I have seen them as they changed in movies in modern time compared to social media's point of view. The view on what makes werewolves interesting …show more content…
From the stories I know they haven’t changed much, the werewolves that I know of are from Twilight, The Originals, and Teen Wolf. In Twilight when they transformed their clothes would tear off and they turn into giant wolves and it’s a fast transformation. In Teen Wolf the transformation is only extra hair growth, sharp nails and teeth and there eye color changes, they don’t actually turn into the wolf form. In The Originals they turn into complete wolves but are the same size as regular wolves not like the ones in Twilight, but to also transform they have to break every bone in there body so the turn into werewolves the least amount of times that they can. The social media’s view on the modern day change to the werewolves is that we have changed werewolves from scary monsters to attractive men that happen to have a curse on them and nobody understands them. Another modern day view of them is some real cases of people claiming to actually be werewolves but it’s a mental illness called lycanthropy but there is also another diseases that has cause people to believe that they are turning into a werewolf and it’s called

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