No Such Thing as Vampires

even get close. “Better safe than sorry?” I asked, eyebrow raised. The orange-haired vampire nodded briskly, adjusting his coat. “Did we not discuss this before you left?” A smirk grew up his face, the scar on his left cheek making it look like his grin went halfway up his face. Oh, right. We did too. I always thought of Crepsley as a highly-strung stressball that worried way too much about the little things. He’d been extra pedantic about my trip after reading the letter three gazillion…

evolved from a mouse or shrew like animal. But it is proven that they have evolved in many incredible ways. Such as the use echolocation, being able to hibernate, sleep in the day, the ability of flight, hanging upside-down by their feet, and many other things that only individual species have developed. Bats are a bit different because while having all the characteristics of mammals, they have the skill of flight. They use their ability of flight to survive by chasing and capturing in-flight…

and techniques which made it a real horror. The main dreadful element of the novel is the count. The figure of Dracula gathers all leading horror elements in one character which makes him so attractive and dangerous at the same time. Dracula is a vampire, a monster with a human part which makes him incredibly dangerous. The count is not a vicious monster but the tragic lover who wants to restore his life in an unnatural way. This vulnerability creates compassion to the character, despite the…

Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897), details the myth of the legendary vampire who wreaked havoc on the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Harker as well as many others along the way. At first glance, it seems as though Dracula fills the role of any malicious occult figure that would grace the literature world at the time this was published, however, I like to believe that Dracula is not necessarily evil. He is rather an organism that is trying to fulfill its biological requirements to reproduce and continue its…

Lucy and the female vampires, he shows the dark side of the changes in the female society, revealing that the changes social norms occurring at the…

Vampires have been a part of literature for centuries. Recently vampires have been more popular than ever. From Dracula to Twilight, the way vampires have evolved continues to be a reflection of societies views and concerns. One subject that has always been a topic of discussion in vampire texts is gender roles. Most vampire texts depict a female victim who is seduced by a male vampire. This holds true for Bram Stockers, Dracula, and Stephanie Myers, Twilight. However, other texts such as…

televirtuality in the films To Die For and Nurse Betty, and how televirtuality prompts murder in both films. The author discusses how Suzanne’s obsession with becoming a television news anchor shapes her view of reality so that television is the most important thing in her life, so much so that it compels her to plot the murder of her husband. The article then discusses how in Nurse Betty, the title character has a more pathological distortion…

This paper examines the fictional character Buffy Summers from the critically acclaimed TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This paper provides a brief character description of Buffy Summers and her various behavioral, personality and physical attributes. The character of Buffy Summers is then examined in relation to 4 concepts covered in PSYC 366: sexism, gender schema, gender socialization and the heterosexual script. Next, various female stereotypes and gender roles are examined and applied…

let alone turn into a vampire for him so that the both of you can spend eternity together. And after three years of loving each other through thick and thin, you decided it's time to change your life forever. It's not that you didn't want to become a vampire earlier, it's just that life in New Orleans when associated with the infamous Original family was quite chaotic. There just wasn't any time to even think about it. But now that everything has calmed down, it's the main thing you two have…

In today’s society people are wanting things now instead of later, but in the past, people…