Vampire

The term “modern monster” can mean several different things to different people. A “modern monster” can be something that scares us like a vampire. Monsters are an unnecessary part of our life, and the monsters let us open our mind to the world. A monster can be something the is hideous and scares us, but the word monster can also mean something that is in our head. Like movies we let the monsters in our head and believe they are real but there not In most of the stories in the book the…

always the topic of choice? Some possibilities are simple, such as wanting to believe there is more out there rather that just normal human beings. Del Toro and Hogans, Vampires Never Die, talks about the history of vampires and all the things a vampires are capable of as well as how that we humans crave characteristics of vampires. Other peoples interest may come from there different types of cultures and beliefs. Parker, the writer of Our Zombies, Ourselves, puts emphasis in his essay on …

The Similarities Between Vampires Diverge Vampires mirror the image of normal human beings, besides their unnatural abilities they choose to love or not to love, to hate or not to hate, and at last they choose who they wish to focus their energy on. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampire Carmilla shows likeness too Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s vampire Geraldine at the same time having different personal motives of their own. Carmilla with all her likenesses to Geraldine shows more empathy to Laura than…

takes care of all the men and in the afterword, she and Jonathan even have a child. Meanwhile, the three vampire women in the novel are her polar opposites. They, too, are vampires, but act very differently. Mina tries her hardest to fight the vampires pull, and even uses her disease as an advantage by seeing what Dracula is doing and informing Van Helsing and the others of his activities. The vampire women however fall into their every desire. They are voluptuous and sexy and try to lure in…

focus on literal vampirism, an extremely cliché concept. An attractive man laced with evil, bites and leaves a mark on a pure woman, taking away her innocence. Literal vampirism is a non-stop cycle of life. One bloodsucker turns a moral person into a vampire and then they continue the cycle by searching for victims. A similar motif that many compare to vampirism is sex implications. Some authors used vampirism to indirectly discuss sex. Their characters use alluring and mysterious…

“Nice to eat you: Act of Vampires”. In chapter 3 “Nice to eat you: Acts of Vampires” in “A Thousand Splendid Suns” can show the relationship and how Mariam can be related. Chapter 3 is about a person violates a women in a sexually way. In this chapter Vampirism represents “Selfishness and refusal to give respect to others and placing our beliefs above other’s needs. In chapter 11 in “A Thousand Splendid Suns” we read about how Mariam’s virginity was taken by a cruel vampire.…

Vampire legends ran rampant across the world in ancient times. They have been around for ages and were just as popular back then as they are now. Many different stories could have inspired Stoker for his well-known Dracula novel. But it is said that Vlad Tepes or more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, is Stoker’s real inspiration. Vlad was a perfect fit for a protagonist, being that he was a master torturer. The story goes that Vlad would impale people by putting them upside down on a…

In conclusion, uncanny sides of London are visible in both novels. Both Levy and Stoker connect the uncanny to the "other." In Dracula, the uncanny "other" is represented by vampires whereas Levy's "others" are immigrants. Additionally, both novels are connected to the empire: Stoker writes during the Victorian period and is visibly influenced by the imperial mind-set; Levy writes in a post-imperial context as her text depicts an empire that is falling apart. The two novels depict the "other"…

The attitude of the Victorian age and its gender roles is ingrained into Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, it is transparent that men hold the authoritative position while women are expected to comply with their demands. Stroker often writes about both genders behaving either more feminine or masculine and the repercussions that follow. Today there's a lot of stress on both genders to look and act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit…

wonders, myths, and legends in the world, such as mysterious creatures like the vampire, werewolf and many more. Many such myths throughout history have been translated and altered into modern societies novels and movies such as the ones to be discussed here. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the first fiction novels to discuss vampires and has become one of the most iconic novels and the status quo to any basic modern vampire novel. The novel follows the story of many characters and their…