The Vampires Are Now A Metaphor Of Human Beings

Critical Analysis of Interview with the Vampire Charismatic. Charming. Sensual. Beautiful. Would you ever use these adjectives to describe a vampire? The common theme in portraying vampires in literature has always involved depictions of great violence, ugliness, and fear. Novels involving vampires never portrayed the vampire as a heroic character, but rather as the villain who was then destroyed in the end. Stereotypical vampires terrorized towns, lived in grim, dark, towering castles

The Literary and Pop Culture Vampire of the 1950s The following paper illustrates the cultural function of vampire legends and beliefs in the context of literature and pop culture of the 1950s. Using the following film and novel, Curse of the Undead (1959) and I Am Legend (1954) to analyze the cultural function of vampire during this era. The paper uses historical references of 1950s to depict hidden meanings portrayed in the novel and film. Themes of threatening external invasion were paramount

The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. On an obvious level, this represents Plath's struggle to deal with the haunting influence of her own father who died when she was a little girl. However, as Mary G. DeJong points out, "Now that Plath's work is better known, ‘Daddy' is generally recognized as more than a confession of her personal feelings towards her father" (34-35). In the context of the poem the scene's symbolism becomes

Father and Husband as Vampires in Plath’s Daddy    The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father.  On an obvious level this represents Plath's struggle to deal with the haunting influence of her own father who died when she was a little girl.  However, as Mary G. DeJong points out, "Now that Plath's work is better known, ‘Daddy' is generally recognized as more than a confession of her personal feelings towards her father" (34-35)

specific types of monsters which are “cursed by a bite”—Vampires, Zombies and Werewolves (Kaplan 2012: 136). Perhaps vampires are the most interesting of all. Vampires don`t morph into a howling hairy creature at the sight of full-moon and they are not controlled together by a sorcerer; rather they assimilate among us as gentle cannibals. The term vampire has been around for centuries. From Dracula (Stoker 1897) to Twilight (Meyer 2005), vampire culture has seduced fiction lovers all over the world

Dalia Rebin Asti 12/11/14 HUM 102 The Vampire Evolution From all the way back to when the Romantic period started around the 18th century right up to today’s 21st century, vampires have completely evolved. They went from being heartless bloodthirsty killers to supernatural creatures that just want to live a normal life. From the beginning vampires have been night walkers that sleep throughout the day due to them being prone to sunburn, they’ve always had this peculiar yet charming

The Domesticated Vampire In 1967 the American gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows (ABC 1966-1971) introduced a vampire, Barnabus Collins, to improve slumping ratings. Originally, he was merely meant to be a short-lived feature to boost viewer’s interest in the show before meeting a traditional vampire’s end. However, producers decided to go in another direction when Barnabus Collins began to get fan mail. Not only were viewer’s enticed by the show’s latest guest appearance, but they also “saw a tragic

The Importance of Gender in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer       What is gender? The answer to that is not so simple. “Gender is what culture makes out of the ‘raw material’ of biological sex,” (Unger and Crawford, 1995). Also, there is a difference between what is gender identity and what is a gender role; a difference which seems to be even more difficult to differentiate between than the words “gender” and “sex”. Media and other parts of our culture seem to believe they know the difference, yet

"Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: A Gender Discussion" What is gender? The answer to that is not so simple. "Gender is what culture makes out of the ‘raw material' of biological sex," (Unger and Crawford, 1995). Also, there is a difference between what is gender identity and what is a gender role; a difference which seems to be even more difficult to differentiate between than the words "gender" and "sex". Media and other parts of our culture seem to believe they know the difference

concerning said ferocious beasts, or so they once were. Society and the media have worked hand in hand to reconstruct and strip away many of the characteristics and ideals that once defined these monsters. Those which were once looked upon in terror have now, in some cases, been modified to be anything but that. The humanizing of monsters such as Dracula and Frankenstein’s Creature has caused a frenzy of “modern monsters” to take over television. Depicting the slightest similarities in order to identify