The Vampyre

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a classic piece of literature that came to Shelley in a dream. John Polidori’s The Vampyre was also published at the same time as Frankenstein, and they both exhibit similar traits. Some of the concepts that the stories share are traveling, folklore and even sickness. To compare the two novels it is a must to start with the two storylines. The Vampyre begins in London with, "A mysterious nobleman, Lord Ruthven, makes his entrance into high society,”(Mustafa 1) Ruthven is described by some as having a "dead grey eye and is said be self-absorbed.”(Foust 1) Ruthven meets Aubrey who is an orphan left with only a sister. The two become acquaintances and Aubrey joins Ruthven on a European tour. “While in Rome, Aubrey receives a letter from his guardians instructing him to leave Lord Ruthven.”(Mustafa 1) Aubrey’s guardians describe Ruthven as a vicious man that would seduce innocent women that Ruthven meets. “Aubrey departs from Italy and travels to Greece, where he meets a young woman, Ianthe,” (Mustafa…

Blood sucker, dead, predator: 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…

What is a Vampire? Vampires are fictional undead creatures that originate from European folklore. Traditionally vampires feed upon the blood of the living to gain immortality. Vampires in literature became popular in the mid to late nineteenth century. Some of these early novels on vampires include; Bam Stoker’s Dracula, Polidori’s The Vampyre and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. In the twentieth century with the invention of the video camera vampire films have become a mains take in our culture.…

class. Erik convinces his friends to help him kill a dragon which would make them the first in 30 years to do so. The people who killed the last dragon are on Central Allocations. Erik and his friends do it and succeed in doing so. Central Allocations decides to have the executioner watch them. The executioner is a player with best items in the game and he can kill players in the game outside of arenas. He is used by Ragnok mostly but he can also be used by the other members of central…

Because of the almost creepy sound a harpsichord entails, many composers must’ve thought it would make sense to use for the holiday. As an example, “Creepy Music by the Famous Verne Langdon: Phantom of the Organ - Vampyre at the Harpsichord” is a more current piece featuring the harpsichord (Johnson). I would say most people in the Baroque era would describe the harpsichord as “beautiful” whereas people in the present would most likely describe it as “creepy sounding” or “eerie”. The…

The book Travels of three English gentlemen from Venice to Hamburg was the first English explanation of the word vampire. In the book it reads: “These vampyres are supposed to be bodies of deceased persons, animated by evil spirits, which come out of the graves, in the night time, and suck the blood of many of the living, and thereby destroy them” (Wilson 581). In Germany in 1748 “August Ossenfelder’s poem “der vampyr” appeared in an article about…

Romantic poets in particular saw great appeal in vampirism as a combination of many popular motifs of the epoch. The first section of this paper explores how the Romantic depiction of vampirism in poems and ballads inspired John William Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819), which is often considered the first real vampire narrative, the implications of the term vampirism in the early stage of vampire fiction, and how certain literary conventions led to the establishment of the Dracula…

However, with further studies, it was concluded that Stoker derived his creation from different sources. One of which was the book, Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. In a footnote, Stoker read that Dracula in Wallachian language means the “Devil”. If not for this novel, Dracula would have been named something entirely different closer to the name of Satan or Lucifer. It was also decided that Dracula was based on previous fictional vampires and was improved to sound more…

defeat Dracula in the latter part of the novel because according to Dr. Seward, “Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time, but it is no place for a woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time infallibly have wrecked her.” (Stoker 160) Dracula’s influence is obvious in many aspects of today’s society and popular culture. From movies/films to books and politics, many of the themes and ideas…

they are unique, like Alice: Madness Returns, and others because of how retro they are, like the 80s arcade games. The main reasons I like Alice: Madness Returns is because I like the story of it, the plot twist at the end, and the art style it uses. This has inspired me to make concept art for a game inspired by Alice: Madness Returns. I would like to work in the gaming industry and create, or help create similar games to the ones that I play. One of my favourite subjects in this course has…