Queen Of The Damned By Anne Rice

In the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, the main character, Lauren Olamina, leaves behind Christianity, a religion that she identified with her whole life and creates a new religion known as Earthseed. Earthseed is a naturalistic way of faith, based on the idea that God is changeable, therefore life, too, could change. Lauren Olamina creates Earthseed because she believes that it is what her people need in order to not only alter their chaotic and misguided ways, but to live a pro-active and positive life.

Dracula is the infamous vampire that readers were first introduced to by Irish author Bram Stoker in 1897 when they read his novel Dracula (Stoker). The author conveys the story of Count Dracula, a mysterious being that is half man, half vampire that sucks blood from the neck of his victims to stay alive (Stoker). This novel is an outstanding masterpiece of work, which is why it has been a prototype for various movie releases over the decades, such as Nosferatu, Horror of Dracula, Dracula A Love Story, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (“Dracula (Universal Classics)”). When a novel is a basis for a movie the hope is that the characters coincide from one to the other, which leads to the exploration of the resemblances and modifications of the

When you hear the word vampire you probably think of today’s modern charters, from Twilight or True Blood. According to the article “Blood Ties, The vampire Lover” By Helen T. Bailie, Today’s vampires make up book 53% of today’s book sells. Vampires in today’s image have become creatures of lust, the dream man of teenage girls all over the world. Before pop culture took over vampires in stories, were monsters of horror. Pre-dating today’s pop culture fad, vampires were used to explain things that people didn’t understand, something scary and unknown. So what has caused all theses changes in vampire stories over time? Changing them from feared unknown demons to every teens heartthrob. To find out where the change came from we’ll look at

In “The Victims” by Sharon Olds it describes a divorce through the eyes of the parents’ children. The first section is shown through past tense as the speaker is a child and the last section is shown in present tense with the speaker already being an adult trying to make sense of past events. The word “it” in the first two lines carries a tremendous weight, hinting at the ever so present abuse and mistreatment, but remaining non-specific. The first part generates a negative tone toward the father who is referred to as malicious by the mother who “took it” from him “in silence” until she eventually “kicked him out.” Through the entirety of the poem the children are taught to hate their father. Who taught them? Their mother showed them that their father was a villain and were taught to have no sympathy for him but “to hate you and take it” and so they did so. Although the poem never directly states what the father did to receive the family’s hated, the speaker gives examples as to why he is hated.

Carol Karlsen 's "The Devil in the Shape of a Woman” was written to provide the reader with an understanding of the role of the “witch” in colonial New England. During the early colonial period, pilgrims lived in a male-dominated society and the classical witch hunts were conducted in an attempt to maintain this societal structure. Since these hunts were placed under a religious guise, it was simple for these individuals to act as if they were maintaining the safety and justice of society. Karlsen explains that in many instances, women who were labelled as witches were often females that had managed to acquire great economic and social status and society. In fear of these women, the neighborhood targeted them and called them witches to weaken their power. Independent of guilt, women who were accused of witchcraft could not possibly recovered. If they claimed their innocence, they would be stoned or burned to death because the counsel would decide that they were not being truthful. If they admitted to their guilt, their place in society would be marred and they would be embarrassed for partaking in these evil acts. Through this violence, men have been able to maintain their place in Puritan society. In her book, Karlsen aims to provide the reader new insight into the witch trials, demonstrating the societal, rather than religious causes for this well-known historic tragedy.

In the novels Oryx and Crake and Frankenstein, mental health impacts the main characters and their everyday lives. Each character has been through different life changes that influence their state of mind. To more thoroughly comprehend what each character is going through, this paper analyzes the life changes that occur due to each characters’ mental state.

Likewise, the requirement for numerous victimized people to satisfy a female vampire's hunger for blood is a given, though it would be unbelievable for a respectable person (Victorian) lady to have various accomplices to satisfy her sexual craving. The force of these female vampires again brings the fight in the middle of good and wickedness into their

How would you feel if you were forced to live a life you never intended to? To have to live without the one you love? Or to face the loss of a loved one that leaves you dumbfounded? Katniss Everdeen, also known as the girl on fire, is put in these situations and more. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins shows the importance of taking life one step at time. With the themes of courage, love, war, betrayal, and justice, and a genre of realistic fiction, Mockingjay proves to be perfect for anyone that is looking for adventure or just a good book to read.

In regards to the concepts of desire and pleasure Laura Esquivel said, “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us, but we can 't strike them all by ourselves.” Desire for pleasure is hard-wired into human nature, and people will do whatever they can to acquire it. One strong desire of pleasure is that which involves the human body and all the pleasures it has to offer. That desire however, exists on a thin border one that if crossed enters the realm of lust. It is a realm of carnal sin that paves the road to harsh and unrelenting punishment for all who follow it. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee, demonstrates lust and the punishment that comes with it through several events befalling Byronic protagonist David Lurie. Given the horrifying assault scene of Disgrace, Coetzee is alluding to the second circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno and the punishment for the sin of lust.

The concern about the condition of the world today is an ever present debatable issue in our current society. In the science fiction novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, the author as put by Jayne Glover in critical analysis “Human/Nature: Ecological Philosophy in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”, Atwood “speculates on what the near future may be like considering the realities of contemporary environmental, social and political issues” (Glover 50). Atwood’s novel specifically focuses on the question: when will the line be drawn? She emphasizes dystopian ideals by painting a grim picture of a futuristic society that extends many of the scientific capabilities available today to a probable future state of existence. Additionally Atwood portrays a society that is consistent with a godless and soulless people that would logically evolve if all current standards of morality were abandoned. In Oryx and Crake, Atwood uses society’s obsessive need for immortality to demonstrate the dystopian idea of the loss of sacredness of life. Atwood demonstrates this theme through the use of symbolism and biblical allusions.

It used to be that he vampire would be seen as these dark and creepy creatures that would stalk and feed off its prey, similar to the original folklore, but people just seem to not be as interesting in that anymore. After seeing the same kind of story and villain over and over again audiences are going to get tired of it, which is why it makes since that film and television makers decided it was time to revamp the vampire genre. Combining the vampire genre with other genres, like romance, is a good way of keeping the vampire genre fresh. Film and television creators needed to figure out new ways to change the vampire genre up, and combining them with different genres was a clever way. By combining the vampire genre with other genres, film and television creators have endless possibilities of what they can do with the vampire genre. For the past few years the romantic and teen genre has been a dominating for the vampire genre, leading the vampires to change and adapt into the new modern vampires.

Today, vampire is the hottest topic in novels, movies, and dramas around the world. Belief in vampires has existed for thousands of year in many different cultures around the world. In original folklore and mythology, the traditional vampires tend to be inhuman and have no soul. They are truly monstrosities. They feed human?s blood in the midnight and enjoy killing people. Today?s outlook on vampires is more positive. Some modern vampires are very human and beautiful creatures. They often drink animal blood. They also regret what their clan has done in the past. They do not want to harm human. For example, the best novel Twilight represents new perspectives on the vampires. Thought a novel, the vampire family are really nice. They do not

struggles with her sin and subsequent isolation from Puritan society, while Walt Whitman’s Oh Captain! My Captain! chronicles a ship’s bittersweet journey towards a port without its captain. Both texts are products of the American Romantic era, which lasted from the 1830s to 1860s, and characterized a time period of particularly emotional and contemplative literature. Hawthorne and Whitman display a sense of nostalgia for the past by juxtaposing the structural rigidity of history with the dynamic fragility of the future, in order to highlight that with progressive change comes at the loss of strength and safety, which ultimately lessens the traction of forward thinking.

The popularity of vampires in films has increased dramatically over the past decade or so. Films such as Van Helsing, Fright night and Twilight have all paved the way for a new type of vampire that appeals to the audience for several different reasons. Leaving a lot of the traditional vampire traits behind, these films have created a new attractive vampire and in the case of twilight, a vampire that has feelings and emotions and does not want to drink human blood. These more modern vampires are not only more appealing to the viewer; they are also signifiers of the modern culture in which we live in today.

J.K. Rowling once said, “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” This is a quote from a very famous author saying how people who don’t read should start reading because in your mind you can picture how the story goes and it will teach you something. People do need to start reading more often because sometimes the books you will read if their fiction or nonfiction it can help you in school. Some people don’t understand how reading is important. There are several relationships that caused J.K. Rowling’s adverse situation as well as helped. One relationship that caused Rowling’s adversity was with her family. According to the website “Beyond Fear, Beyond Death,” when J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, her parents Peter and Anne Volant Rowling were expecting a boy. When they found out they got a girl instead they were not happy about it. Then two years later her parents had another daughter and they named her Dianne but they cared more for her then Joanne, and that made her feel that no one cared about her. She felt sad, and the quote she said. “I went up to my room and wept” (Wirawan n.pag). Because of how her life was going, she had suicidal feelings and nothing got after years went on. Another relationship was with her ex husband Jorge Arantes. She stopped writing Harry Potter for awhile, moved to Portugal and worked as an English teacher, and then she married Jorge in 1992. They had a daughter together the same year. After one year of