I Am Not One Apologize

Pale, bloodthirsty, and fangs are some words that trigger readers’ minds with one particular being: a vampire. These creatures have been around for centuries and it is evident how they are all portrayed with negativity, including in Bram Stoker’s novel: Dracula. Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who goes to Transylvania to meet with his new client, Count Dracula, to discuss the topic of purchasing a property in England. Over the course of his stay, he discovers that the host is actually a nosferatu (vampire in Latin). Jonathan nearly escapes and finds himself in Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste.

Although vampires have always been known for drinking blood and immortal, the nature of their kind has developed over time into a more compassionate kind. Dracula and Lestat centered more on European and aristocratic culture and the immortal aspect of the monster where they were sinister and preyed on the weak. The culture of vampires were seen as malicious and predators, whereas the Cullens are the “good vampires” that do not feed on human blood. Throughout the twentieth century, vampires main focus in on the Western culture. Since the barrier between human society and the immortals has been broken down over the past century, the vampires in modern media are now viewed as more of a misunderstood, heroic character. Protection over the ones the vampires care about is a vital part of their identity.

On the night of December 19th, 2003, a baby is born. Her mom’s a social worker, her dad’s a nephrologist, and she has one older sister. Her name is Sophia Galoustian, although later she will wish to be called Sophie. After two years of living in Maine, the family moves to California, where Sophie will grow up.I am Sophia Galoustian, and this is part of who I am.

The age of nine or ten is when I realized that I wasn't like the kids around me. I did not have people to call mother or father , no one to come to parent teacher conferences. Not having anyone to draw the family photos of, it was just me and my sister. Remembering being all alone walking down those too long and too big halls filled with too many people. Everyday as a Nobody Girl with clothes too big from the local Goodwill was shoved pushed aside or tripped and as I get up I put on a brave face for my sister. She was everything to me. Having to be brave for her, to her I was mother and father , not sister. Getting home from a too long of a day for a ten year old, and had to deal with an emotionally abusive guardian, and a depressed guardian

I was born in Portland, Victoria on April 13th 1869 and I was the oldest child in my family. My sisters and I were educated by a private governess and I went to the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. My 2 sisters, Lina and Elsie got married, but Aileen didn’t get married.

The vampire is not by any means a new manifestation of the fears of a society. Their presence in human culture can be traced back for centuries in human folklore. The first Anglicized representations of the creature in literature date back to the English poetry of the early 1700s, and were then followed in the fiction genre by such works as John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and of course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. For the audiences of the 18th century, vampires embodied many of the following common fears shared between the people: of illness, both mental and epidemic, of an embraced sexuality, particularly that of women’s and homosexuals’, and of foreigners. As the archetypical vampire evolved throughout the

In the late nineteenth century vampires started to evolve into to what is the modern day vampire. Although they were still seen as “evil”, the vampires of the late twentieth century were no longer creepy creatures that would crawl out of their coffins to seduce women and feed from their blood. This was the start of a new period of

Our story begins in Gateshead Hall, England, around the mid-1800s, where then-10 year old Jane Slayre, tells us of her troubles while growing up with her vampire cousins, the Reeds. An altercation with her eldest cousin, John Reed, leads to the ghost of her uncle visiting her, revealing information about her Slayre family, a clan of renowned vampire slayers, and telling her that she isn’t the only member of the Slayre family left, her

Between 1914 and 1918, World War I explodes and impacts Europe. Already between 1918 and 1920, an influenza pandemic - the Spanish flu - affected the European continent, leaving more dead than the Great War. So, the vampire does not only embody the war, but also all these plagues and the death that was generated. He is a particularly special character. Focuses in itself the war, death and darkness.

A single event, person, or in this case vampire can change the course of due events drastically enough so as to ruin the whole lives of once peaceful people. All was well for Lucy, Johnathan, Mina, Dr. Seward, Arthur, Quincey, and Van Helsing. Sure they had troubles in their everyday lives, however the terrorizing actions of a damned entity was not the root of all troubles. Yet this happy, terror-free life was shattered by the arrival of Count Dracula in England. The Count was first spotted in Whitby, “bending over the half-reclining white figure,” (87) known as Lucy and draining her of her life force, blood. When Lucy returns to her home in London, the Count continues to drain her until at last he turns her to into a vampire. Eventually,

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ appears to be a novel predicated upon a racist worldview. 1897, its publication year, was marked by anxieties resulting from the decline of the British Empire from its previous position of hegemony. The ‘increasing unrest in British colonies’ endangered British imperialism, race, and its cultural conventions, rendering society susceptible to the fear of ‘reverse colonization:’ the infiltration and influence of former territories. Dracula, travelling to England from Romania, is employed to symbolise this threat. Arata’s most thought-provoking note is that vampires as an entity are ‘generated by racial enervation and the decline of empire.’

Dracula is new and different to England, and this makes him frightening. People were afraid that someone would come to their land and change everything or take it from them. Dracula was frightening to the people for this reason, they were afraid he would try to make changes to their land. People were afraid of change and the unknown so immigrants were never accepted. People were judged by their appearances, and they were evil if they had a scary appearance.

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.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a story which on the surface is about vampirism and other supernatural phenomena. Beneath these spectral frights, however, Stoker is addressing a much more pressing topic: the society’s fear that their British Empire would inevitably collapse like so many before. The British Empire, though, unlike many of its predecessors, was threatened by external factors rather than internal ones as were seen in Rome. The egocentric attitude of the British in this period is what led to the compounding of outside factors; As with most great empires, the British held themselves to be the highest standard - believing every other nation was inferior to theirs. In Stoker’s novel, the vampire Dracula, despite being considered inferior, nearly undermined the entire British empire, highlighting their striking vulnerability.

Basic story here start from a scene of old monastery at Bucharest in 1476 that a lightly armored SCOUT (20s) of the Royal Romanian Army, and LORD VLAD'MIR (30s) search for hunting of a group of vampires. They finally ended it up finding the leader of vampire, DRA'GHOULA (40s), Prince of Darkness which also mentioned as a brother of