The Vampire Lestat

Jace Wayland finds himself caught in the lies his father, Valentine, created. The young Shadowhunter, a being created from humans and angels, is under suspicion for being in league with his father to destroy the Clave — the governing body of the Shadowhunters. Even Jace's adopted mother suspects his motives for remaining in the human world. She questions why Jace didn't return to the Shadowhunters' home when his father escaped with the Mortal Cup, a powerful Shadowhunter relic. Clary Fray,…

Lucy is discovered to have been "sleepwalking" off to mysterious places and seems to be growing weaker. Eventually dying and being buried in a tomb, the group think she is dead. Lucy later on comes back, transformed by evil into a different being, a Vampire. Her innocence and love was transformed, "The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity of voluptuous wantonness"(203), and "… Lucys eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of pure, gentle orbs we knew. By then…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. The protagonist, Jonathan Harker, a realtor, was sent to the castle of Transylvania to complete a transaction with the antagonist, Count Dracula, an evil vampire, so he can move to England. What Harker did not know was that Dracula had a plan for world domination. Christian redemption was shown in many ways throughout the book. Very early in the book, Harker was making his journey to Dracula’s castle until he was stopped by the…

“Vampires and Vixens” written by Alison Happel and Jennifer Esposito is an article written to educate and advise readers of present feministic and post-feministic controversy veiled in today’s media, specifically in the movie ‘Twilight’ directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The two authors express their concerns about the film by addressing the film itself, the teachings of popular culture, post-feminism, and sexualized violence. Even though the article “Vampires and Vixens” did contradict itself…

Societal interest in the vampire has waxed and waned throughout the ages though they have remained ever present. Vampires have gone through many evolutions, as have their admirers and audience. Throughout the centuries they have been portrayed as dreaded creatures of the night, beings to be pitied, and, in recent years, as love interests. The evolution of vampires can be traced back throughout history using their presence in mythology, literature, and film. Vampires, like most creatures of…

Holmwood are Protestants who come to believe in Catholicism aspects. Also, He adds that Dracula represents the anti-Christ who promises people an eternal life by drinking human blood instead of wine. Furthermore, Christopher Herbert in his article “Vampire Religion” claims that Dracula illustrates the parallel relationship between superstitions represented by Dracula and Christianity represented by the group of men. He explains that in the Victorian era people have been trying to come over…

Vlad the Impaler: The Original Dracula Dracula. Everybody knows who that is. He inspires terror in everybody's heart. He is the blood sucking monster that haunted Transylvania. He is an iconic legend that has inspired a countless amount of classic movies and novels to this day. However you may be surprised to know that he is not pure fiction. Bram Stoker the author of “Dracula” based his novel off of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes or “Vlad the impaler” as he was called as a result of his…

crew. In conjunction, the crucifix was a prominent prop in the early 1900 films since the notion of vampires was considered as the epitome of blasphemy. Hence, why it was represented as apotropaic and Dracula, unhuman. However, religion tying in with vampires was later disregarded in a modern appropriation, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Coppola dismissed the vital biblical relationship between vampires and Christianity by incorporating a crucifix bursting into flames by Dracula’s hand…

Dracula, Buffy and Blade use vampires to explore humanities inner monster. The portrayal…

Dennis Foster 's “The Little Children Can Be Bitten” Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker is a seminal piece of Gothic horror fiction. The novel 's portrayal of an undead master (the titular character) being chased by Van Helsing and his band of vampire hunters has been consumed for over a century. Dennis Foster 's critical article “The little children can be bitten: A Hunger for Dracula” uses a psychoanalytic approach to analyze this influential work of literature. In his article, Foster makes…