The Vampire Diaries

social issues” (Alexander). Since the nineteenth century, vampires have been portrayed as hypersexual beings. Vampire women are often skinny, pale, and seductive and men are muscular, pale, and very attractive. Victorian women lived in a controlled environment that urged them to repress their sexuality. Just thinking of another man was a sin. In fact, Victorian women actively read vampire literature as it gave them freedom to fantasize since vampires were not human characters . However,…

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…

are, none so like him as ourselves.” (Rice 69) Lestat told Louis this in Interview with the Vampire. It raised a very good concern for people to think. How can evil be defined? For a vampire, blood consumption is a necessity to maintain their life. (Wolf 28) In order to do so, vampires have to kill. Suppose every vampire is both victim and perpetrator. There are vampires that are being turned to vampire unwillingly, such as Claudia, which makes her a victim. (Witter 118) At the same time she…

These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story in his short story The Vampyre:…

Through the course of this assignment transcribing and interpreting Dorothy’s diary, there was a great amount of information to be gleaned about her life. While some aspects of Dorothy’s life, such as specific details about herself, are lacking, she provides plenty of evidence from which to draw conclusions about her employment, location, age, activities she does for fun, how she travels around, and the people she teaches and with which she works, shops, and goes out. To begin, it is clear…

“Knowing” is Contagious Was Buffy the Vampire Slayer just an entertaining show or did it have a deeper meaning embedded into it? Why did the show have such a big fallowing? Well before we jump into these questions a little background of the show is in order. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was first aired in 1997 and was created by Joss Whedon. The premise of the show is a young girl comes to age and discovers that she is destine to slay vampires and other hellish creatures: she also has to deal with…

Women are reminded of how they should act and often put in their place. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer the couple Xander and Anya are fighting about their relationship. Xander reminds his girlfriend that she’s “turned into a real girl” (Hush 00:07:13-00:07:20). Xander say’s this in such a tone to insist to Anya that she is acting in a way that…

No species has contributed more to the fear of bats than the vampire bat. Movie portrayal and public perception of them as creepy, blood-sucking monsters is an incorrect representation. The vampire bat in fact rarely kills its prey and is very ordinary looking, although they do have some fascinating adaptations to their ecology and lifestyle, their anatomy and physiology, and their feeding behaviors. The Vampire Bat is a small, carnivorous mammal who drinks the blood of birds, horses, pigs, and…

1. What are the facts? Buffy is a single mother of five-year-old twin boys who works at a local hospital, and is a student in the Distance Learning sociology course. She needs a passing grade on her term paper in order to pass the class, and it is due in two days. Buffy has to make the paper an original work according to her instructor, Professor Snidely. Jim Bob is Buffy’s friend also takes the class. Buffy and Jim Bob believe that Professor Snidely will not read their work so it’s okay for…

Dead Until Dark “I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he walked into the bar. Ever since vampires came out of the coffin two years ago, I’d hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town, why not the newest, the legally recognized undead?” Dead Until Dark is a thrill intriguing book, that grasps your attention, and you cannot put the book down. Sookie Stackhouse, born and raised in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She’s a small town girl, with very few…