No Such Thing as Vampires

start seeing things. She sits down and starts reading the book. A light came out from the book and this is the time when she gets inside the book to the actual first story. There were flying horses all around her and everything around looks like magical and brigh world. MIAH “Where am I?” She heard her brother’s voice. JIMMY “Walks through the forest, defeat the lion, and try to save me, I am at the end of the road” MIAH “Where are you Jimmy?” JIMMY “I’ve been kidnapped by the vampires. They…

blow things out of proportion, and tell a story, rather than what actually happened. There are not actually mutant fleas and giant flying cats, and berry hints at this in the story. Dave Barry's short story called “mutant fleas terrorize midwest”, there were lots of examples of high humor, more than low humor. In most cases, there are examples of irony, and hyperbole, to making satire for us have somewhat of a sensible chuckle. Like the title, these examples include tax plans, mutant vampire…

cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than just a killer joke, it's a conceit of undeniable logic — after all, when you've been alive for centuries, you've liked just about everything before it was cool. Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play Adam and Eve, a vampire couple who've been…

him and his family were traveling and his car got stuck in the blizzard at Jerusalem's Lot. Lumley left his family in the car while he would go look for help, but what Lumley and his family didn’t know is that Jerusalem's Lot is known for having vampires. In the beginning of the story, when Gerald Lumley comes into the bar, is when Tookey starts to be recognized as the wise elder stereotype. First, he asks the man what happened that…

The Oxford dictionary defines a vampire as ‘a corpse supposed to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.’ But, as I will explain, there is much more behind this gothic character; a reflection of societal views and values and contextual evidence within their stories help us to understand the world in which they were created. A text from the past, in this case Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897, not only helps us to…

“The Vampire Diaries” Season 8, News Update: Is Stefan’s Promise to Elena His Motivation to Save Damon Season 7 finale of “The Vampire Diaries” left fans with a perturbing mystery. After Damon and Enzo were affected by the monster in the vault, every fan has been curious to know their fate. Theories are swirling around in good numbers and one says that Stefan’s promise to Elena has got a lot to do with his resurrection. Stefan is that one person who truly believes that Damon is still alive…

The attitude of the Victorian age and its gender roles is ingrained into Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, it is transparent that men hold the authoritative position while women are expected to comply with their demands. Stroker often writes about both genders behaving either more feminine or masculine and the repercussions that follow. Today there's a lot of stress on both genders to look and act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit…

antidote, but in order to pay it off Darren had to become Mr. Crepsley's vampire assistant. In order to save his best friend's life Darren agrees and becomes a half-vampire. Mr. Crepsley says that Darren could no longer live a human life and that he had to break free away from this past in order to be a vampire. So Mr. Crepsley fake Darren’s death by breaking his neck and throwing him out the window. Since Darren is half-vampire his wound heals up quickly, then a normal person would. Darren’s…

myths people were told they were just stories. It raises the question however were this creature real or are they still just figments of people's imagination. Three mythical creature people have heard of due to their popularity are the werewolf, vampire, and zombies. This have been popular creatures in many movies and tv shows. However some actually believe these creatures are real. So let's jump back to the origins of these creature and find out if the stories were true. The first creature are…

Presence of the Unsuspected New Woman in Dracula The world renowned Dracula, a novel of seductive vampires, deception, lust, gothic horror, and vengeful murder has a secret. The unsuspected presence of the new woman. Throughout history, the same generalizations and assumptions concerning women have remained intact. Society as a whole, until very recently has considered women of their own culture to be weak, submissive, docile, and bound by marriage. The idea of the new woman was birthed in the…