The Vampire Diaries

Name Last Name Professor Course Number Date Vampire Aesthetic In her article “Powerful, Beautiful, and Without Regret:” Femininity, Masculinity, and the Vampire Aesthetic,” Joan Forry argues that conventional beliefs of beauty and appearance are at work in the portrayal of vampires. In vampire aesthetic, however, beauty is mostly conceptualized along the constructs of gender and sexuality. If a male vampire is conceptualized as a handsome martyr, the female one is conceptualized as a femme…

Zombies… Vampires… Whose side are you on? For centuries we have been entertained by these superficial beings; Folklores, books, movies, and the family next door. Being a child of the 80’s and 90’s, growing up it was only the vampires lurking in the darkness of our televisions, books, and imaginations. Zombies must of have been buried deep in the ground, digging their way out, an idea and book at a time. As expressed by del Toro and Hogan, vampires have been our favorite night crawler for…

Professor, written by Thomas C. Foster, the point is made that vampires do not have to be the stereotypical bloodsuckers often encountered on TV and in horror tales. Vampires can be symbolized by regular humans as long as they have the qualities of a vampire. He does not mean fangs or bats; however, he means to say that vampires have certain goals and many characters in stories have these same goals. The people that symbolize vampires usually target young women, which are linked to their…

Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and…

Mieville espouses the same claim in The Tain. As opposed to the Morgan Library, the British Museum is the repository of cultural property: “The Fish of the Mirror lived in the British Museum. At its heart, the vampire had told Sholl. Surrounded by the detritus of men and women from ancient Americas, from the east, from the old Greece and Egypt…. The Fish of the Mirror lived in the corridors made of time, of incarceration…” (74). The patchogues understand the museum as a site of power, which…

ultraviolence and gore involving vampire characters. It is based on the original manga, Hellsing, written by Kouta Hirano, which was published from 1997 to 2001 through Young King OURs magazine, while the collected chapters published by Shonen Gahosha. Hirano published Hellsing: The Dawn from 2001 to 2009, as a prelude to Hellsing to provide additional backgrounds to the original work. Hellsing is the story about Alucard, the vampire, who serves the Helsing family to hunt other vampires and…

been roaming the earth’s surfaces since as far back as the 17th century, but the stories were probably told even before then, too. These monsters aren’t just made-up from authors and storytellers, they are as real as we humans are. The history of vampires is still alive today and their archives of adventures keeps growing with newer, contemporary documentation. Descending from Europe, these nightwalkers hunt once the sun goes down, and light can no longer rule over them. The moon is their…

definitely the most interesting, multi-layered vampire story I have ever read. It provided the genre with such unique and authentic qualities, allowing Matheson to impregnate a unique believability of these vampires into my mind. Robert Neville, the protagonist of the novel, is the only survivor of a devastating pandemic which plagued the rest of the population with a form of vampirism. Neville spends much of his days barricading his house from these vampires, and killing them. He is also…

The Vampire: Enemy Invader Literature is ordinarily written in a manner that represents the thoughts and ideals of a society during a certain time period. Since literary vampires were the simplest and most effective scapegoats used by authors in order to convey a message of fear to their audience. However, while vampires represent the fears of a society, they simultaneously provide some insight on society’s hopes and desires. Despite the fact that Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and Bram…

defined the modern form of the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional characteristics of a vampire, created by Stoker. In…