Vampire

Books, movies, and even games have remade vampires for years. It’s been dragged out and overdone, so much to where it becomes boring and repetitive. I’ve always thought of these entertainments as overrated. A love story between mythical creatures and mortals have become predictable and an absolute cliche. Despite all of these opinions that could turn any face anyway from a story containing the drama between creatures with sharp teeth and pale skin, Reckoning is a sizable exception. Furthermore,…

The topic I chose is Nosferatu vs .Dracula and the three points that I will be using for this essay. Did you know that there are different types of vampires? A lot of people never knew that because a lot of people think all vampires are the same. My points are physical difference, humanness (quality of being human), and living corpse. I will be comparing Dracula and Nosferatu with my three points that I chose to use to compare how they are different. The first point is physical difference and…

Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897), details the myth of the legendary vampire who wreaked havoc on the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Harker as well as many others along the way. At first glance, it seems as though Dracula fills the role of any malicious occult figure that would grace the literature world at the time this was published, however, I like to believe that Dracula is not necessarily evil. He is rather an organism that is trying to fulfill its biological requirements to reproduce and continue its…

other times is whenever he stabbed the cross with the sword and Jesus blood splash all over the place and he drank the blood. And one of the most important parts of the blood it was whenever the girl licked Dracula’s blood and she converted into a vampire and she had to drink that. Even though Dracula didn’t wanted her to do it she fought him and told him that she wanted to be with him…

everlasting “life” to his victims in the form of vampirism. As a vampire, Lucy loses her innocence and lilac temperance; she becomes the embodiment of blood-thirsty blasphemy. In Lucy’s case, Dracula feeds on Lucy, and thus, metaphorically drains her of her pure innocent human blood, symbolic of a battle between Lucy’s innate depravity and socially imposed morality—to which, depravity emerges victorious. In addition to this, vampire blood itself parallels to the blood of Christ. Just as one may…

characters? From the opening chapters of Dracula, the reader is faced with under-developed female characters who often fit into the limited cultural stereotypes presented by Bertens. The clearest example of this is Jonathan’s encounter with the female vampires, who fit into the “dangerous and immoral seductress” stereotype. Through the use of these stereotypes, Stoker makes political statements about the roles of women at the time and many of these statements can be perceived as negative.…

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,…

of the pioneering and most influential works of horror fiction, Dracula by Bram Stoker has been rediscovered in the late 20th century from the gender studies perspective. Many scholars have pointed out since then that under a classic adventurous vampire story Stoker managed to hide his contrasting understanding of the gender roles of late Victorian Britain, especially the contradicting images of femininity. While Stoker’s attitude toward women is a debatable topic, with some scholars viewing…

romance series of novel by LJ Smith. Lisa Jane Smith who writes professionally as LJ Smith is a world renowned author of young adult fiction. One of her best known series it The Vampire Diaries that went on to become a popular and highly successful TV series by the same name. Smith’s novels in the Night World and Vampire Diaries series have been award winning titles and several time New York bestsellers over the years. Prior to becoming a full time author, Smith was an elementary teacher until…

The next book he wrote using this method again was Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. However, instead of reading a book that would cover Lincoln’s life like in his previous situation, he used the knowledge he already had about the former President. In that way, Grahame-Smith would be able to make a transition from the reality of Lincoln’s life and history of a commoner to that of a hunter of vampires, as implicitly suggested in the title of his book. This novel also developed to be…