The Vampire Diaries

The word "iceberg" is most likely a Dutch term "ijsberg," which translates to ice mountain; only one-eighth of the mass can be seen above the surface of the water ("Iceberg Facts"). Iceberg also refers to a theory/style of writing in which the vast majority of the story is not read in black in white but inferred and hidden throughout the writing. Ernest Hemingway was famous for the style, and it can be seen throughout, “Now I Lay Me” a short story about a religious man during The Great War who…

Argument Both Charles Perrault’s short story ‘Little Red Riding Hood` and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “The little Red Cap” are fairly tales about a wolf and a young girl. They seem to be one but have continuously changed over a period of time. This can be attributed to the modern adaptations of circumstances and readings. The story was published first by Charles Perrault. The story is of a little girl called Little Red Riding hood. The name originated from the red hooded cloak that she wore.…

What are distinguishing factors between science fiction and horror they seem so different, yet share so many similarities. Science fiction obeys the natural laws of the universe, but horror creates its own set of supernatural laws. The horror genre creates terror while the Sci-Fi genre creates a sense of wonder. But both genres are so much alike and are separated by their own periods of time. The film industry uses these periods of time to create different classics for each genre. There is a…

Zombie Mania Zombies have been a large part of our culture for years. Alongside their undead vampiric counterparts, they have held a very dear and somewhat sick place in our hearts. The question is, Why do we love zombies so much, and why does it seem like our love for them is continuing to steadily grow? Our love for zombies seems to stem from two reasons: a fear and fascination with a highly unlikely zombie apocalypse, and the need to distract ourselves from problems within the government…

The main villain Dracula is a vampire, hundreds…

contain hidden themes, morals, and symbolism. First, Foster continues informing readers about how to better analyze novels in chapter 3, Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires. In chapter 3 of his novel, Foster describes the how the classic vampire story is not what it seems. For example, in Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, Stoker portrays the vampire, Dracula, as an “attractive, alluring, dangerous, and mysterious man who tends to focus on beautiful, unmarried women,” (Foster, 25). Dracula seduces his…

In Paul Barber’s Vampires, Burial, and Death, he discusses the very early sightings or cases of vampirism, like Andre Paole and Peter Pologojowitz, and, we,as readers get a sense of the core features that make a vampire so interesting. Characteristics such as reanimation, state after death, epidemics and prevention, as described many testimonials, including the two in Barber’s book, are the most fascinating to me. The idea of death epidemics that surrounds the town in each vampire sighting is…

Bram Stoker had his novel Dracula published in 1897, and though the novel never gives the year in which the events of the narrative take place, the narrative never informs the reader during what year the events of the story happened. It’s just strange, seeing as how the way in which the narrative is delivered through journals, letters, phonographs, and other such recorded forms. The majority of which are presented with the dates Stoker’s character’s supposedly recorded them. On the topic of the…

The architecture becomes scarcer and decayed. When he mentions where he is headed, some passengers on the train are scared of him; other passengers worry for him. They give Johnathon a cross necklace to protect him. Dracula, or a rumor of a vampire, is obviously well known and the aurora the atmosphere creates sets the mood for the rest of the graphic…

In considering those with a certain innocence and pureness, Willow from “Welcome to the Hellmouth” comes to the forefront. Thanks to Buffy, she escapes the fate of being turned into a vampire or killed in those first episodes. So, when the audience first sees Vamp Willow in “The Wish,” the character is based off the young Willow from the first two episodes. She is not the experienced Willow from the episode before and the transformation is startling. Carter argues that Willow is “a modern…