Vampires Never Die by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan: An Analysis

Fugleman: a soldier placed in front of a military company as a good model during training drills; fugle(wo)man: Beyoncé. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has grown to be a current day icon because of her encouragement to women through her music discussing feminism, body image, and confidence. Pop culture stars have a unique reputation of pleasing everyone because they have to influence the billions of people tuned into their everyday lives. Could you imagine the pressure of children, teens, young adults, along with elders breathing down your neck awaiting for your next move, but mainly focusing on your failure? Beyoncé knows all eyes are on her, but she does not hesitate to be herself in the lime light, she embraces who she is as well as helps others figure out who they truly are. Vampires are another culture icon for people who long to obtain what they know they can not have, implied authors Toro, Guillermo, and Chuck Hogan in their article “Why Vampires Never Die” in the New York Times magazine. Beyoncé and vampires relate to one another by influencing and relating to culture, but they also differ. Beyoncé brings hope to this generation while the vampire is a reminder of what we can never become.

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.

Vampire is "a bloodsucking ghost that come back from dead person believed to come from the place where a body is buried and wander about by night sucking the blood of people asleep and causing their death." Before vampires were seen as evil monsters and creatures humans must fear. However, now, vampires have become an "famous popular culture and fascination among teens around the world"  This art has increased vampire large groups of fans this way resulting to the creation of many fan clubs and social organizations, whether online or not.

The authors state that the vampire combines lust and death. The passage Bram Stoker’s Dracula (pg. 196) combines both of these elements by the three beautiful vampire sisters being aggressive, insatiable and sensual, wanting to turn Jonathan Harker into one of them. Also, Harker being sexually stimulated by the attention of these three women. Our current cultural attitudes towards lust and death influences more recent vampire stories because men and women’s sexual behavior has been brought down and forbidden. If a male or female is sexually adventurous and their behavior is against social norms, they’re seen and considered dangerous. Also, vampires embody that desire and represent other attractive qualities that go beyond limits and

Vampires have been around for centuries, they represent the fear of many things such as sexuality, race, gender, etc. and above all, they stand for the fear of diseases. Vampires have once been the symbol of horror due to their terrific depictions and were described as a threat to the humanity. Throughout time, the image of vampire has changed dramatically from a monstrous, inhumanely creature that doesn’t belong to human society to such an attractive and adaptive figure that expresses more of the human side than the evil. They developed human feelings, senses, and live within our society. Modern vampire movies are often more romantic and “sympathetic” comparing to the past. Vampires have abandoned their horror and evolved to a more

Ever since my middle school friend introduced me to Twilight, I have been obsessed with vampires. With my obsession came a need to share my interest with other people. After my friends got sick of listening to my constant chatter about vampires, I turned to my mom to talk about my interest. When I told my mom about modern day vampires, she laughed and told me that the creatures I was talking about were not vampires. She said that vampires are bloodthirsty evil beings that are not handsome and certainly not sparkly. Through my conversation with my mother, I found out that the views of vampires have changed greatly throughout generations. I found that cultural and societal changes that occur throughout history has changed our image and perspectives of vampires.

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

According to the article, "Whispers from the Grave," by Katia Bachko, people are very intrigued by ghost stories because it gives people a way to cope after a loved one dies. First of all, when loved ones die, people don’t ever know exactly where they go and this can lead to curiosity when ghosts are mentioned. “‘People want to know what's happening to their loved ones, and what themselves are to going to go through when they pass away’”(Bachko 8). This is important because when people listen to ghost stories, it's a way they can try and figure out what happens after death. This can bring people to try and find closure when getting over a death since they know what happened to their loved family member who passed away.

Lastly we have noticed that the vampire in movies often starts to have feelings for a girl that has become more than sexual attention. The Lilith from Stu Burns “A short history of vampire folklore” is seen as a demon that has sex with men before eating the flesh out of them. These characteristics are very familiar in folklore because vampires would often show sexual attention before eating their victims. In the 20th century vampire, we see him has having emotions for his victim and wanting to turn his victim into a vampire as well so that they can live happily together. Just like in Twilight, in Softly While You’re sleeping by Evelyn E. Smith the vampire

Vampires have fell under a certain stereotype ever since the early nineteenth Century, and even up until today. Movies, novels and people in general have depicted vampires as bloodsucking demons who turn into bats, and I am sure everyone is familiar with any vampires need to seduce women almost daily. Vampires are said to be " an alien nocturnal species," as Nina Auerbach's book-"Our vampires, ourselves" states; but all vampires are not the coffin lying, shadow loitering monsters that the media perceives them to be. First of all, vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman, " they are simply more alive than they should be." What does this statement infer? Does this perception imply that vampires are actually ghosts? No,

The generalization for vampires has been displayed in films and literature for hundreds of years. The stereotypical versions of vampires are that they have long fangs, sleep in coffins during the day, and suck the blood out of humans. Both novels contradict those stereotypes in different ways. To understand the diversity of the vampires described in both novels, one must examine the characteristics that the vampires display and the meaning and purpose behind them. David D. Gilmore’s book “Monsters” analyzes monsters and other mythical creatures. Gilmore describes why humanity invented the idea of

As we look at vampires from any given time period we see what people thought was frightening, or maybe we would see what they thought was sexy, or forbidden. Although the novel Dracula, authored by Bram Stoker, is over a century old, it still impacts our culture and societies view on vampires today. Many writers have begun to try and recreate the “vampire” in a new, modern light. For example, in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, the vampire’s image is altered from the attacker to the protector. This is due to the fact that one of the main characters, Carlisle Cullen, turns people who were in life threatening situations into vampires and raise them to do good and to prey on animals rather than humans.

In vampire literature, there is always a mortal female willing to risk her life to be with a vampire. These females are willing to do anything to be with these immortal creatures for a lifetime of endless love, regardless of the danger. Is mortal love not enough anymore? With vampires, they seduce their prey in order to feed. Vampires intrigue women with love, sex, romance, and most importantly mystery. Vampires are much more desirable then mortal men, even though they can potentially kill you. Their love is endless compared to mortal love.

As one of the most attractive and enduring figures in the Gothic literature, the vampires have moved from being a peripheral element with the genre to a place near the center and are capable of generating its own massive tradition now. In the recent literary history, they have already been adapted to play a role of a rebel against the moral, social, religious, and even sexual taboos. Put simply, the vampires are now a metaphor of human beings in the modern society and life.

Vampires, or also called masters of darkness, are beings created from the same blood of Lucifer, beings that live from the blood itself and exist only to destroy life and everything that exists. These beings have a superhuman force, which far surpasses that of a human. These monsters are very recognizable, since they are beings with very pale skin, dark eyes and fangs used to suck people's blood. Although these monsters can fly, they have strength over human and can be transformed; Are very susceptible to the light of the sun, since these are burned with only to the time, also they are super susceptible to the garlic and everything that has to do with the