What happened to the classics? Over the years the world has come to see many different changes of the living dead. In literature one of the major changes that has been seen are the changes in vampires. The classic vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has differences between the vampires when compared to Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Now comparing to classics like those to a modern day book series Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber the way vampires are now seen has shifted in a completely opposite way than how they were viewed in the classics. In the modern day era of vampire, literature has evolved into something more romanticized compared to classic literature where vampires were feared, creatures. Vampire literature dates back
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In the book Louis is described by the reporter who is interviewing Louis the description of Lois is, “The Vampire was utterly white and smooth as if he were sculpted from bleached bone, and his face was a seemingly inanimate as a statue except for two brilliant green eyes that looked like flames in a skull.” (Rice & Neil pg.1). Anne Rice’s vampires are more human looking compared to Count Dracula. But the vampires in Anne Rice’s book look more like a statue or porcelain doll than a human. But how she makes them feared is how they act for example she gave them the ability to moves fast to a human but slow to them so fat that the human didn’t see them move. “You have experienced a fundamental difference between the way you see and I see. My gesture appeared slow and somewhat languid to me. And the sound of my finger brushing your coat was quite audible.” (Rice and Neil pg. 20). In Dracula Stokes used a different approach on how to make a vampire be feared with movement. “I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings” (Stokes Pg. 30). Each author has different
In the book Louis is described by the reporter who is interviewing Louis the description of Lois is, “The Vampire was utterly white and smooth as if he were sculpted from bleached bone, and his face was a seemingly inanimate as a statue except for two brilliant green eyes that looked like flames in a skull.” (Rice & Neil pg.1). Anne Rice’s vampires are more human looking compared to Count Dracula. But the vampires in Anne Rice’s book look more like a statue or porcelain doll than a human. But how she makes them feared is how they act for example she gave them the ability to moves fast to a human but slow to them so fat that the human didn’t see them move. “You have experienced a fundamental difference between the way you see and I see. My gesture appeared slow and somewhat languid to me. And the sound of my finger brushing your coat was quite audible.” (Rice and Neil pg. 20). In Dracula Stokes used a different approach on how to make a vampire be feared with movement. “I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings” (Stokes Pg. 30). Each author has different