The Vampire Lore That We Have Read Two Major Factors

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Viewed as inferior women, Blood Moon and Eve never receive knowledge directly; rather their male counterparts reinterpret and provide them with knowledge after reinterpreting it. The narrator of Paradise Lost establishes Eve as “Not equal” (Milton IV.296) to Adam, her male complement. Blood Moon, too, dwells in a world where male lords gather, “[share] their thoughts” (Popol Vuh 99), and decide her fate—as a powerless woman, she has no say in her future. In both stories, men govern their world and their word is law. Due to the nature of these patriarchal worlds, the men dole knowledge out piece meal to the women—the knowledge is never available. For example, Adam explains to Eve the rules of the universe. He claims God to “Be infinitely good” and that “[he] rais’d us from the dust…/ In all this happiness” (Milton IV. 412, 416-417). Eve does not decide her own emotions; even something so personal is told to her by Adam. She owns nothing, not even herself. Similarly, Blood Moon’s father “retold” the “account of the fruit of the tree” (Popol Vuh 98). The storyteller opts to enlighten her father—the male—over Blood Moon.

There are four essentials of a Vampire story. The first one is an older person who is corrupt and usually a male. The second aspect is a young person who is usually a virginal female. Third, the young individual has her youth, energy, and innocence taken away from her, while the older individual continuous to have a prosperous life. Lastly, the young individual dies or destructs.

The vampire is the popular character in folklore from early civilization to modern life. The vampire appears in people mind with the passion of immortality, fear, love and mystery. People are attracted with vampire because the superstition of the vampire has done for centuries. Are they real? What are they? Where they come from? There are a few of thousand questions about the beliefs of vampire during many centuries. People don’t stop their curiosity with vampire- the legend that emulates the world cultures and religions. One of the most important reason that made vampire still popular until today is the great transformation. During the time, with the creative of human, vampire reforms to fit with modern age. According to the “Jung and the Jungians on Myth”, Steven Walke implies myth is a metaphor and come from the collective of human psyche. People use vampire as the tools to explain human thinking. Therefore, the charging in the thinking of people in different period of time will effect to the symbol of vampire. The research will explain the transformation of vampire by diving to three main topics: the vampire in the historical and religion thinking; the charging of vampire in literature and movie; the symbol of vampire in modern people thinking. Although three main topics seem separately, these connect and develop other idea like cause and effect. Depend on the information of history, the image of vampire in novel become reality. From the idea of vampire in novel, modern

Eve has been a powerful female figure throughout history and provoked so many female authors because she is depicted as the first woman, made from the rib of the first man, Adam. Since Eve was the first, and mother to all women, she was preserved to have passed on an evil nature to all women after tasting the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and asking Adam to as well. Women have invested their time in Eve’s defense by arguing that it was not the fault of Eve alone, and that if Adam was supposed the be a symbol of strength, and wisdom, then he should been able to see through Eve’s fruit and the trickery of the serpent. The story bible has been used as a symbol of oppression for women by the word of God being law in the Christian

The female vampire truly embodies the authority and the omnipotence of the female gender. In the novel, these ladies of the Undead are extremely independent and have an immense amount of freedom. For example, they can freely abduct children, openly show their sexuality, and hunt down prey all without the need of assistance from a male. Basically, the female vampire personifies everything that the Victorian women was not allowed to be. By having these characters become vampires, or being threatened to become a vampire, it shows a woman’s drive to disconnect and break away from the standards that are set for her in society. As a result of this, why do not all the women in Dracula turn into vampires? The answer is quite simple. Throughout the novel, the people who despise vampires the most are men. This idea is clearly revealed when Mina actually sympathizes with Dracula: “That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all” (335). In other words, Mina asks that the men to pity Dracula as he has suffered as much pain as they have. Hence, the hatred and the necessity to exterminate the vampires in the novel reflects the threat of the independent woman on men. For instance, when Jonathan encounters the three voluptuous vampires he states, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear” (40). Through

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.

The humans understand that their only hope for survival is to learn from Lilith and “that they are helpless without her” but the Human Contradiction drives them to see her as a traitor to the human species (152). The Contradiction trumps their survival instinct as they would rather try to fend for themselves than to learn from Lilith. Some resistors die or nearly die because of the Contradiction. Lilith also has enhanced strength, which perturbs other humans. After getting hit by Lilith, the resentment of having to rely on Lilith flares up and causes victims to accuse Lilith of not being a woman because “only a man can fight that way” (147). Losing in a fight to Lilith essentially has others place the loser on a lower rank than the betrayer Lilith on the hierarchy. This embarrassment causes humans to be irrational and claim outlandish statements. This statement also examines the preconceptions of the abilities of males and females. Men are thought to be strong because it is a masculine feature. A woman who possesses masculine traits, like strength, must not be a woman at all. The reader clearly sees how ludicrous it is to only associate masculine with men and feminine with women. Most people are a mixture of both and yet society teaches us someone who is normal is either one or the other. These teachings result in humans marking other as different, which turns into xenophobia and ethnocentrism. Lilith demonstrates a

Eve has been considered as the mother of femmes fatales. Karen L. Edwards, in “The Mother of All Femmes Fatales: Eve as Temptress in Genesis 3” argue that “allusions to the story of the fall regularly assume Eve to be the archetypal femme fatale: she tempts Adam to participate with her in a divinely forbidden act in order to gain illicit knowledge, thus luring him to death, and with him the rest of human kind” (35). Another good illustration of the fatal woman is Lilith, who has been dismissed from the Garden of Aden after claiming her equality with Adam in terms of sexuality and desires. Moreover, Lilith is seen as a destructive women who brought death to humanity by murdering children. This turns her into an evil woman in the masquerade

In my story about Lilith, I chose to include the immediate fights between Adam and Lilith in the Garden of Eden. This showed that Lilith was not a bad person; she just believed that she was created in the exact same way as Adam and did not want to be subservient to someone who was created the same. I put this part of the story in my writing because it is true that man and women were both created the same way, from the same Earth, and by the same God. There should have been no one subservient to one another, but Adam believed himself to be the leader of both of them. I wanted my readers, by including this in the story, to acknowledge that God did create man and women in the same way and Lilith had good reason to leave Adam, for he was not being

And, subtly of herself contemplative," - Dante Gabriel Rossetti. According to the Jewish folklore, God created Lilith firstly, but she rebelled and abandoned Adam , so, later on, she was damned. But, what sets Lilith apart from other beautiful women in poetry and literature? We cannot get a fixed image of her notion; if she is evil, wicked or a beautiful woman that has been slandered and she definitely had a charisma.

One way in which this is shown to be evident is Butler’s insistence on situating Lilith alongside and in opposition with other humans who distrust and are even violent towards her; thus she aligns her protagonist, notably of African descent, with the Other-centered positioned aliens. As Sheryl Vint relates, “the first human that Lilith encounters following her isolation among the Oankali tries to rape her” (2007: 66). Despite her dismissal of his seemingly uninformative name – Paul Titus – “biblical associations of Paul (often thought misogynist) and Shakespearean associations with rape (through Titus Andronicus) are ominous” (Lennard 2007: 38), and in fact, the etymology of names and places is significant to our overall understanding of the text as allegorical. Butler’s physical description of Paul is contrasted with Lilith’s own appearance – “A human being – tall, stocky, as dark as she was, clean shaved” – and therefore skin colour is counterbalanced and treated as an issue in this instance (Butler 1987: 84). Furthering this, Lilith labels him “alien and strange, yet familiar” shifting the reader’s perspective and

Now I will talk about how milton portrayed eve in his writing. Milton sees Eve as Narcissus. For many hundreds of years, the female has been seen as the weaker sex the gentle sex, the docile sex, even the less intelligent sex. And this is because, for many hundreds of years, the societies that humanity lived in were based mainly on survival. Necessity of women remained in the home in order to further the mere survival of the species, while men were in charge of providing for this family unit. Through this situation, men developed an egocentric view of life, seeing themselves as the centers of their own microcosms. Humans always look for someone else on whom to place the blame any man would be pleased if he were able to place all of the evil of humanity on to a poor decision made by a woman. This view of Eve makes her a flat and undeveloped character. She is vain, falls in love with herself at first sight in the glimmering pool, and can barely stand to tear herself away from the water to be with Adam. As usual, this episode of her self-absorbed conceit only contributes to the already growing compassion for Adam,

Not many people would think that they can be compared to Count Dracula. Considered to be one of the most well-known monsters of all time, Count Dracula sucks the blood of his victims, which would ultimately lead to their death. While this seems like a very unique example, it can be applied to nearly every person, specifically in the college stetting. This phenomenon that can be linked to this monster is called the “vampire effect.” First used in the book ______, this term refers to the what happens in social groups due to different personality types that were caused by a difference in economic background. Set in a college dormitory, chapter 4 of the book discusses how there is a difference in the social lives of students who are quiet versus students who are more outgoing. Students who were shy were generally ignored and did not seem to partake in many social activities. While Armstrong and Hamilton suggest that the “Vampire Effect” arises due to the social students knowingly ignoring and rejecting the shyer students, that is not the case. The cycle through which the effect takes place starts with self-comparison due to economic status, envy, and self-blame, and results in anxiety and self-isolation. Although this is done unintentionally, consciously known factors such debt and class also play a role in the process.

Discuss possible answers to this question with reference to at least two critical or theoretical essays and at least two tellings ' of the Dracula story._______________________________________________