The Awakening : The Vampire Diaries : The Awakening

The video, Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings, gives an influential look into the beginning of the civil rights movement. It shared many different events that helped bring about the movement and eventually caused that Black society would have the same or similar rights as the White’s. The main events that took placed happened in the southern states, particularly in Alabama. In the US blacks were segregated and were not allowed the same rights or privileges as the white race. They also were of the poorer class and that made it harder for them to have a voice in specific matters. However, it was very strict in the south and almost everything has either a black or white section. As time passed blacks began to show small acts of courage of standing up for themselves and demanding equality.

Humans for centuries have been drawn to vampires. From sitting around the fire in the time before the industrial revolution, to sitting around the table and in modern times watching it on the big screen. The folk tales of the undead that hunt at night, sucking the blood of the innocent has haunted and intrigued the human psyche for as long folklore has been in existence. Being afraid of what is being told to them, yet being unable to pull away. The pull and push affect that these mystical monsters have on the human aura is undeniable. Modern day vampires have a cult like following. When the Twilight series came out, the people where divided between team Jacob and team Edward. Teenage girls would swoon over these monsters, dangerous yet alluring.

First, to compare and contrast Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, the main characters need to be analyzed. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are the main characters in the Twilight movies, while Elena Gilbert and Stefan and Damon Salvatore are the main characters in The Vampire Diaries. Both Elena and Bella are humans at the beginning of each series and fall in love with a vampire. However, the similarities between the two female characters end there. Elena is an older sibling and very protective of her younger brother, Jeremy. Elena is also very popular and has many friends. Elena makes it very clear in the series that she does not want to be a vampire. Bella, on the other hand, wants to become a

Elena also has quite a bit of agency. She, too, is the one actively pursuing Stefan, at least in the beginning. Thankfully, she also pursues goals beyond him: she is struggling to come to terms with her parents’ deaths; she wants to help her brother, Jeremy, find a better way to deal with his grief; she’s trying to find her place in the hierarchy of the school social structure when she’s changed and no longer is interested in the place she held before, etc. Her attraction to and, later, love of Stefan are but part of her personality and that which drives her to act.

The Vampire Diaries is a supernatural drama television series based on the book series of the same name. The series takes place in Mystic Falls, Virginia a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. The series narrative follows the protagonist Elena Gilbert as she falls in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore and is drawn into the supernatural world as a result. As the series progresses, Elena finds herself drawn to Stefan’s brother Damon creating a love triangle. The vampires in the show are undead humans who feed on blood and who do not age, due to their immortality. The vampires in the show where a ring which is a day walking Amulet enchanted by witches to allow vampires to walk freely in the sunlight. Vervain is the vampire’s worst weakness in the show. It is a potent herb, if touched by a vampire it can cause burns to the skin. If a human has ingested vervain and a vampire feeds on them, the vampire is affected within seconds and extremely weakened. If a human ingests or holds vervain somewhere on the body such as holding it in a hand or pocket, or wearing it in jewelry, the human is protected by vampire compulsion and entitled to free will.  They have the ability to fly, appear out of nowhere and compel people with the use of their eyes to get what they want. When vampires smell blood, they loose control if they don’t know how to control themselves. They need to be invited in to someone’s

Sacrifices can define one’s character; the definition can either be the highest dignity or the lowest degradation of the value of one’s life. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin implicitly conveys the sacrifice Edna Pontellier makes in the life which provides insight of her character and attributions to her “awakening.” She sacrificed her past of a lively and youthful life and compressed it to a domestic and reserved lifestyle of housewife picturesque. However, she meets multiple acquaintances who help her express her dreams and true identity. Mrs. Pontellier’s sacrifice established her awakening to be defiant and drift away from the societal role of an obedient mother, as well as, highlighting the difference between society’s expectations of

The Great Awakening- was four periods of great religious revival in American religious history. Religious passion happened between 18th century to the 19th century. These "Great Awakenings" was set apart by widespread revivals led by biblical Protestant ministers which resulted to the increase of interest in religion, an extreme sense of judgment and freeing from sins on the part of those affected, a rise in church membership, and the creation of new movements and denominations.

“Awakening” by Joshua Lang is about patients waking up during surgery due to the anesthesia wearing off. Thus, the patients are aware during their surgery, and symptoms may appear in the future due to this awakening during surgery. The main theme of “Awakening" is to explain the concept of “anesthesia awareness” which is patients becoming aware and awake during surgery. When patients wake up during surgery, they feel paralyzed, the doctors touching their organs, and they smell burnt hair. Joshua used statistics to reinforce the main theme of the essay.

Vampires are very present in today’s society. Many novels and shows, like Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, show that vampires are still integral to our culture. However, the birth of such a cultural phenomenon would not have happened without Dracula. Without Bram Stoker’s novel, there would be no stereotypical vampires that capture the culture’s conscious. Aside from telling a story on vampires, Dracula also explores ideals about the women of the time in which it was written, which is the Victorian Era.

Throughout this journal, Elena can be characterized as brilliant and hopeless. Firstly, Elena can be characterized as brilliant in numerous ways. For example, she understands Russian and even the commander is asking her to be a spy. Lina said, “‘Komorov asked Mother to spy and report to him. She said no’” (Sepetys 158). The commander wants Elena to spy on the prisoners and promised her that Lina’s family will be treated differently from others. In addition, they will get more foods and less work, but she knows how to refused him and not getting punished. Another example, she tries to enlighten Lina because Lina does not understand Andrius. Elena said, “Andrius. He’s trying and you’re blocking him at every pass. Men aren’t always graceful, you know” (Sepetys 160). Furthermore, Elena

In the Nineteenth-century women faced many challenges; they were expected “to live their lives largely homebound, taking care of the cooking, cleaning, and child rearing.”(4) But in Kate Chopin The Awakening, the main character Edna is conflicted with her urges and what society expects of her. The novel was written to challenge the stereotypical rules that controlled the roles of men and women. The Awakening was published in 1899, and was set in the Creole part of Louisiana, and during this time women were still considered to be the property of their husbands. The woman had no say so in any conversation they could only go with what thier husbands wanted.

Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), recently an orphan, lives in her hometown Mystic Falls with her aunt and her younger brother Jeremy, who got involved in drugs after his parent’s death. Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), is a vampire who later meets Elena in school and takes an interest on her. Stefan is a good vampire that can control himself around humans and can survive on animal blood. But he is later surprised with the arrival of his brother, Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder). Damon is the opposite as his brother, he is more of a bad boy who doesn’t care what other say and does whatever he wants. Both take an interest on Elena because she resembles an old love of Damon and Stefan from 19th century. As the show goes on we see how Elena makes

Vampires are the ultimate bad boys, powerful, persuasive, loners and tortured souls. They search forever to find “her”, the fantasy of hot endless love. Which is why these females in vampire literature are willing to risk their lives for a vampire, they want something more. The darkness and mystery pulls these women closer and closer to what can be the greatest love of all time. For example Bella Swan from “Twilight” was a regular mortal who wanted nothing more to be with Edward Cullen the vampire. Elena from “Vampire Diaries” found love with a human who turned out to be a vampire. Even in “Vampire in the Lemon Grove Fila” didn’t not run away knowing Clyde was a thirsty vampire. All these women knew the risk of surrounding themselves around these vampires. But not one of them was willing to walk away.

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Another major character in the film is Elena, a woman who Salvatore is deeply in love with. Unfortunately, Elena’s father does not approve of Salvatore, and Salvatore is not even able to send her a letter while he is undergoing his military service (Abrams, 2010). Upon his return, Salvatore is faced with a very difficult choice; he must choose between staying his hometown and trying to find Elena, or he can pursue his dream of becoming a director. Di Vita decides to follow his dream, with the result being leaving his first love interest behind. Today, many people of all cultures face this difficult choice in their lives. With the economy being slow, succeeding in one’s career and finding love are often mutually exclusive scenarios. Many viewers will emphasize with Salvatore’s brutally difficult decision, one that they might have had to deal with themselves at some point in their