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Since the beginning of time vampires have been categorized into different "types” and are portrayed in different ways throughout several books. This paper will focus on three vampires from the following books: Dracula by Bram Stoker, and I am Legend by Richard Matheson. Dracula is considered to be the traditional vampire, where it all started, and the vampires in Matheson’s book, follow somewhat Stoker’s concept, but is more of a modern “type” of vampires. Certain vampire elements have been presented, but others have been completely removed or altered. In addition, elements along with appearances are used to infer if the vampire is a form of “the other”. There are two types of vampires; the traditional or modern vampire which can be distinguished based on the elements present in their storyline.

In the article, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: The Unwarranted Backlash Against Fans of the World's Most Popular Vampire," Sady Doyle argues and criticizes that the Twilight series is not one of the best reads. When thinking of romance a lot of teenagers think of Romeo and Juliet, but this time it's a vampire and a human being. She offers her insight on how important it is to cater to a particular audience and how successful it is.

The truly shocking and terrible, blood-sucking-monster we once  knew have now changed into beautiful, perfect,and healthy human beings. This paper will discuss the change and the reason why  the change of idea many still accept and like the modern picture of vampires.In order to answer this, I will examine the differences between Bram Stoker's Dracula , the typical figure of horror before, and the soft light just before sunrise or after sunset's Edward Cullen, the obvious example of the 21st century vampire. From this, I will be able to decide out what changed in the features of the vampires we know today.Many would think about Edward Cullen as a "shockingly disrespectful behavior of the vampire old example" (Mole).

They shun the light and crave the taste of blood. The mere thought of them could make a grown man tremble. But what if a vampire wasn’t just a horrific creature of the night? What if they were completely human, enabling them to hide in plain sight? Wouldn’t that make them more dangerous? Due to popular Gothic literature, vampires are commonly romanticized to be pale bloodsuckers that hide in the dark, waiting for their next meal. This version of a vampire makes them easy to spot in literature, but is also very limiting in that it only lends itself to that specific genre. However, a different version, laid out by Thomas Foster, shows how anyone, whether they be fictional or nonfictional, can be considered a vampire through analysis of

Dracula by Bram Stoker is the original vampire book, the one that started it all. From it derived the now so beloved and famous teen-romance vampire genre, with novels like Twilight. However, Dracula is not remotely like the sparkle-in-the-sunlight, falling-in-love-with-mortals vampire any more than Harry Potter is like the Wicked Witch of the West. Dracula is a gothic horror novel set in Transylvania and England during the Victorian Era. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the viewpoint of several characters tell the story, allowing for a wide variety of viewpoints that highlight happenings in Dracula as well as present the social issues pertained within. While it contains action, suspense, horror, and romance, it also displays the corruption within the everyday society. The way the women are presented, interacted with, and how Count Dracula affects them brings forth the issues within the Victorian society, especially the men’s treatment of women and the different social and gender roles, which Stoker uses to highlight the situational irony found within the novel.

Commentary: You have to eat to live. ”It is vital to life”. (Pg 10) Commentary: No matter how much siblings argue,’they are still connected through their mother’s body and blood”. (Pg 12) Nice to Eat You:Acts of Vampires Summary: Ghosts and vampires are more than their name (Pg 17) Commentary:Ghosts and vampires try to teach a lesson (Pg 17) Commentary: Let go of unresolved issues

Almost every sin imaginable is included in this text if one were to interpret Bram Stoker’s writing to be as such. The glaring Christianity, coded sexual innuendo, and the vampire stereotype still attracts many to this novel. Despite the Victorian era’s social expectations of a woman, gluttony and lust are the two most abundant and greatly detailed sins alive in this text and usually descriptively, if not symbolically intertwined. The female characters of this novel lavishly display their sexual and physical appetites throughout the novel thus tempting the male figures. Mina and Lucy are portrayed in opposition to both each other and societal norms, in the nineteenth century and these traits are still displayed today in the twenty-first century. Voraciousness and Lust as portrayed through vampirism in Dracula details the dichotomy of Bram Stoker and of all men; which wife would a man want to have, the smart maternal plump woman or the fanciful beautiful thin woman.

In the novel ,The Natural by Bernard Malamud,Roy Hobbs a soon to be baseball player with his whole life ahead of him thinks his baseball career will skyrocket and will become a well known baseball player,but he let is love life interfere with his career. Roy Hobbs was shot at nineteen years old and lost his best friend all because of the same girl.His career skyrocketed but it was at the time where his age did not do him so good.The protagonist Roy Hobbs is a progressive character because although he was shot at nineteen and forced to take a fifteen year leave out of the big league baseball,he overcame his injuries and was determined to be the best.

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During the 1800s many fundamental changes took place in the British colonies in West Africa. Later after the period of the slave trade, "slavery had been abolished throughout the British empire" (6). Although around this time all slaves were believed to be free, it was hard for slaves to set free of themselves. However, African American men found it easy to “run away, go to court, or escape” (108) during this time; the results of men being rebellious led to slave owners only wanted women because they believe that women would make better slaves because they were less likely to run away, this resulted in slavery begin a “female condition in the region” (108). In other words, women struggled more trying to receive their freedom, their jobs were almost hardly possible. In this case, women like Abina Mansah faced many challenges that are being represented in the graphic novel Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History.

Without no emotional attachments nor spiritual attachments to their children, slavery defined black women as animals. At the same time, slave women suffered more than their opposite sex. For instance, in the book Kindred, as the main character Dana dwells in the past of her ancestors, she develops an

Different depictions of vampires are commonly exhibited in vampire folklore in past and present literature and film. The diversity of different variations of vampire legends are prominently seen in most literature, but the main ideas and attributes are generally the same. This is not that case when focusing on specific novels discussed in class. The novels I Am Legend by Richard Matheson and Fledgling by Octavia Butler are two contrasting works of vampire folklore. The novels are about different societies of vampires. They both emerged in different ways, the survive and feed in contrasting ways, and they both represent completely different forms of vampires. This essay will examine the characterizations of the contrasting the vampire species in both I Am Legend and Fledgling, as well as, investigating how these different species of vampires relate to human species.

According to Harry, "their contradictory positions in relationship to men, their lack of voice and their insufficient character development, can also undermine his women's potential to articulate agency or female empowerment" ( ( Drama Criticism 280). Harry’s argument provides readers with a view that how Wilson expressed about the role of black women in his

As one of the most attractive and enduring figures in the Gothic literature, the vampires have moved from being a peripheral element with the genre to a place near the center and are capable of generating its own massive tradition now. In the recent literary history, they have already been adapted to play a role of a rebel against the moral, social, religious, and even sexual taboos. Put simply, the vampires are now a metaphor of human beings in the modern society and life.

On November 20th of the year of 1987 a young man named Liam O’Ryan had asked his beloved girlfriend Lucy Kensworth to take his hand in marriage. Lucy was in quite a shock because she had no clue that he was going to propose to her, but without any hesitation she immediately said yes. Lucy and Liam had known that they were meant for each other as soon as they saw each other in the tattoo parlor. They had so much in common, it was crazy. That is what made Liam and Lucy fell in love with each other, though there was a big thing that Liam did not like about Lucy. Lucy loved vampires, she was obsessed. Lucy was so obsessed with them that she went to school to study becoming a Vampirologist. Even though, that one thing Liam had not liked