The Vampire Lestat

of numerous people are vampires. Vampires are seen as fictitious due to all the attention they have received by the media and their transition from bloodthirsty creatures of the night to emotionally distant, teenage dreams. However, there almost always is a grain of truth behind every good story; certain diseases such as hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia could have easily given rise to the myth of the vampire. The world does not unanimously agree on what defines a vampire, but most cultures…

“master”. Dracula imprints fear in humankind. Meanwhile in 2015, numerous contemporary vampire novels present a disparate concept of the blood feeding organisms. The Twilight Trilogy proves how vampires have transitioned over a period of time. The vampire of modern times represents Romanticism. Dracula and the Twilight series are composed of basic fundamental ideas but eventually differentiate into two dissimilar vampire images. Dracula’s depicted as being correlated to imperialism…

In Medieval European legends, werewolves, also known as lycanthropes, were hated predators who were dangerous to humans and were linked to greed and gluttony. Those convicted of being werewolves were burned at the stake. Some medieval werewolf stories presented a man trapped in “bestial form” (Hopkins). In Marie de France’s Bisclavret, stealing a wolf’s clothes prevented him from returning to his human form (De France). In other cases, it was a witch’s magic that bound a man to his werewolf…

The Shadow of the Vampire is a film based off of the filming of the Nosferatu film, and was directed by E. Elias Merhige. The film was released in the year of 2000 as a drama genre. The opening scene in Shadow of the Vampire is a character playing with the cat, which signifies the difficulties characters have with dealing with animals. Shadow of the Vampire allows the viewers to recognize the efforts needed from the entire cast to make Nosferatu a successful enjoyable film. Elements such as…

The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into…

Dracula: A degenerate and a threat What is Dracula? Is he a monster, a villain, an illness, a disease or an immigrant? Whichever way Dracula is looked at, he is a symbol for what we most fear. In Dracula, Bram Stoker utilises late Victorian era anxieties and uses the character of Dracula as a symbol for threats regarding imperialism. When it came for me to do my research into degeneration, two theorists lead the way; Max Nordau and Cesare Lombroso. I decided to continue my research by…

In the horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker utilizes the symbolic elements in the story to create the theme that any good can defeat any evil(or the mystery solving process). Specifically, the symbolic elements help establish the integrity and beliefs of the main characters. The allusions to christianity and garlic help characterize Dracula as the blood-sucking demon he is. The novel begins with Jonathan staying in a town near Castle Dracula. The night before he travels, the innkeeper “tak[es] a…

Mina is directly making a decision for her husband. Mina “would no listen to [Jonathan’s] object” is a astonishing break from Victorian traditional gender norms. Mina even goes so far as ordering her husband to kill her if she were to turn into a vampire. She says, “You must promise me, once and all – even you my beloved husband – that, should the time come, you will kill me,” (Stoker, 371). The act of Mina suggesting such a drastic action is way outside the feminine norm of the age that…

Vampire Suicide vs Human Suicide, is it the Same Thing? This semester we were assigned three novels and as a final assignment we were to determine if the characters in “The Night Wanderer” were the same when their thoughts were about committing suicide. Suicide is when someone hits their all-time low and does not know what else to do so they take their own lives to end all the hurt they feel. Tiffany Hunter is a teenage girl that was dealing with a lot of different things such as her mother…

Vampire diaries is an engaging book and can capture the mind of all readers. This books first draft was written in 1990 but the book was published in 1993 selling over 200,000 copies. This was her first book of hers that took off and is sometimes called the deadly love triangle due to the love between the Salvator brothers and Elena. This book combines Supernatural, horror, fiction, and fantasy but in the end love over powers all. At one point someone you love will pass away, this is where it…