The Vampire Diaries

control the weather. The members of the Crew of Light, the group dedicated to destroying Dracula show that he is evil. If you were to say he wasn’t evil, there wouldn’t be a need to destroy him. In short, Dracula is a classic story of good versus evil. Vampires have been a popular subject for years, but Dracula was the first. He is viewed in a negative light because of his actions…

Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler in english. Although the word ‘dracula’ has a distinctive meaning than the word people associate it with today, a vampire. ‘Dracula’ was a title given to Vlad III, as a son of Vlad Dracul and a member of the House of Drăculești. Due to the blood sucking Count Dracula, the word ‘Dracula’ began to get its connection to vampires. It was suggested twice in the novel that…

Breaking Down and Analyzing Dracula Have you ever pondered what the true meaning of Dracula is or what purpose it was written for? In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker there are many literary elements that fall into the tome. Many of which can be detected with ease and some of which that are trying to recognize. Bram Stoker intended the novel to be this way and wrote it so the reader would find more elements with each endeavor. Five of them in particular stuck out among many evaluations. Symbol,…

Remember this scary creature called Dracula. The vampire that would suck the blood out of any human he caught. Dracula was actually real or I should say was real at one time. In Transylvania, Romania was count Dracula, otherwise known as “Vlad IV, 1431?–1476, prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456–62, 1476), known as Vlad the Impaler. He was the son of Prince Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Devil) and is therefore also called Dracula or son of the Devil”. He was a gruesome king of Transylvania; during his reign…

Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the antagonist Dracula is a cunning and frightening vampire that hires the main protagonist, Jonathan, to aid in his plans to move into London for better hunting ground. The setting is in Transylvania and Dracula’s castle is remote and many locals had warned Jonathan about the Count but had not explained thoroughly about the Count. Dracula’s castle is immense and deceiving as to mislead Jonathans judgment in order to trick him into…

Chapter 3 Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires In the chapter “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”, Foster enlightens the reader to meaning behind vampire stories which is the old and corrupt figure preying on the young. Another way of putting it is the exploitation of others in order to get what we want. This essence does not simply apply to just vampire stories, it can be found in most suspense and scary novels. More importantly the chapter leads to the understanding that a loss of your ground or…

Thomas C. Foster introduces his topic in chapter 3, Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires, by presenting to us his guidelines to finding vampires in literature. He breaks down this chapter by starting off with the father of all vampires, the infamous Dracula. Foster points out to us that in every movie or book that contains Dracula he is always portrayed as always alluring, dangerous, mysterious, and tends to focus on beautiful virgin women. The reason for this is for him to gain back youth and…

still high enough then the production will continue to exist. Continuing from Awakening series, Blood Wars is still in the same grip; eternal enmity vampire and werewolf (lycan), only now heroine us, Selene (Kate Beckinsale) the Death Dealer formidable been the focus of the seizure of the two clans horror knowing the fact he was on the run from the vampire because sin has killed the leader and second, he and her…

Vampire Ever since reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, my slight obsession with vampires began. Reading the Twilight books was only the beginning as my infatuation with vampires grew as I continued to immerse myself in books that catered to individuals who enjoy reading about these blood-sucking creatures. Everything vampire was all I wanted to expose myself to for a while, from the Blade movies to the Morganville Vampire series, I could not get enough of learning about the different way…

What is a Vampire? Vampires are fictional undead creatures that originate from European folklore. Traditionally vampires feed upon the blood of the living to gain immortality. Vampires in literature became popular in the mid to late nineteenth century. Some of these early novels on vampires include; Bam Stoker’s Dracula, Polidori’s The Vampyre and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. In the twentieth century with the invention of the video camera vampire films have become a mains take in our culture.…