The Vampire Lestat

What you see is not always what you get. In fact, often times the truth is not revealed until the glittering, flawless outer coating is pried away, leaving behind wicked realities. Bram Stoker’s classic horror tale Dracula confirms this notion through it’s self-titled main character, and his startling resemblance to his home. The parallel created between Dracula and his mansion, specifically the contrast between their respective outward appearances and intentions, forges a rigid divide between…

Werewolves Monsters have both been seen as good and bad since they have been created. Monsters have been seen in many different ways from the creator who made it out of wanting to tell his story in a different way or the readers/watchers who relate them to their own lives to make them get through what they need. The werewolves in The Originals can be seen as murderers or to other people as a side of all of us that needs to come out at times, it just depends on how you look at it. Werewolves are…

Dracula: From Simple Monster to Global Threat Bram Stoker’s Dracula explains the story of a vampire living in Transylvania attacking Westerners both physically and psychologically. This novel is written under different formats (in telegraphs, journal entries, and plain narrative entries). The protagonists describe their time with the Dracula, and their experiences with him. The reader first perceives Dracula as a simple monster attacking young innocent women. However, later on in the story,…

Two of the most famous are Vampires and Werewolves. In the stories told of them they are almost always natural enemies. Fighting to the death over who knows what. Money? Power? Kristen Stewart? They’re alike in a lot of ways, but also different. Werewolves were thought to have originated in Europe, but a lot of the original stories came from Native Americans. The origination of vampirism did however originate from Europe. People use to think that individuals were vampires because of the body’s…

her neck onto her nightgown. In the article Stoker’s DRACULA by Wayne Hensley, he discuses the omission of the overpowering odor from a vampire has been the reason why vampire narratives have survived. Hensley provides an example of how the smell of the vampire has been omitted or spoken about in a less irritating way to get the audience more interested in vampire narratives. Hensley presented a survey in his article where young American women were presented with various smells in a romantic…

Every one knows the tail of the legendary Dracula. The first and the greatest vampire that every existed in the world of fantasy or the real world who really knows. But one thing we do know is that the legend of Dracula has lived on throucth the agege and with every generation that passes by we all add or reinvent the legendary tail of vampires. For ensample the story of the original vampire Dracula originated. In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vlad Tepes- vald…

Abraham Lincoln, which was given to the author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith by the vampire Henry Sturges. The journals go into depth about the details of Abraham Lincoln’s life from boyhood to his death. The journals begin by talking about Lincoln’s upbringing in Little Pigeon Creek. In his youth Lincoln was very attached to his first mother Nancy. Due to his father’s, Thomas, inability to pay a debt to a vampire banker the banker took the life of Nancy as payment for…

he gives an example of how two women try to live a life of purity in a world of lust and sexuality. He takes the wisdom of the “scientific, sceptical, mater-of-fact nineteenth century” (216) man and puts it to trial with the immortal power of a vampire. In a curious style of writing, the journals of several characters are combined to describe this gothic horror story. Using the era’s rules and beliefs on how different genders should act, Stoker creates Count Dracula as an exact opposite…

Vampires are usually depicted as cunning, violent monsters, that drink blood and are slaves to the sun. I chose vampires as a monster that represent me because of the vampires tendency to be lonely and outlaws of society. These are some of my greatest fears, not just hurting people to survive, having to deal with adjusting to society as…

Furthermore, he creatively exploited tension of relationships to effectively portray the dramatic meaning through the utilisation of the relationships between Lucy and Jack; specifically when Lucy had been bitten by a vampire. Their interactions advanced the dramatic meaning as the audiences were confronted with the evil that had been placed in Lucy, and consequently, how Jack had to cope with it. Secondly, the relationship between Johnathon and Dracula at the commencement…