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The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod is written by Heather Brewer is a fictional fantasy book that would keep you reading until the end of the series. The main characters Vladimir, Henry, Mr. Otis and Aunt Nelly don’t know how much mayhem they are about to get into. D’Ablo is the antagonist trying to kill Vladimir for his father’s wrong-doing. Vladimir is tall, pale and skinny. He was also bullied a lot and was very shy. Oh yeah did I also mention he is a vampire? He is also the first of his species: he is a half-blood and half-human vampire. Vladimir also drinks anything as long as it goes with blood packs that come from Aunt Nelly because she is a nurse. Vladimir’s Father Tomas was a Vampire who was the President of the Elysian Council until he disappeared because the Elysian council found out he was with a human. Vladimir thought his parents had died Henry is the Vladimir’s best friend. Henry knows Vladimir is a vampire. Vladimir can read people’s thoughts if the person was bitten by him. He can read Henry’s thoughts because when Vladimir was little he had bitten Henry. Aunt Nelly is not really Vladimir’s aunt just Vladimir’s mother’s best friend. Aunt Nelly accepts Vladimir as a vampire. After Vladimir’s parents vanished, Aunt Nelly (a friend of Vladimir’s mother) took care of Vladimir. The setting of the book takes place in a small community of Bathory, a junior high school and Elysia (a fraudulent vampire kingdom). The time of the story is near Halloween time. Now Vladimir will embark on an adventure and see what really happened to his parents and the secret to Elysia.
With chapter three starting, Harker realizes that he is a prisoner in Dracula's castle, he becomes panicked and feels helplessness. At first he believes that he is going mad, but then recovers quickly and tries to think about what he must do to survive. He becomes grateful for the crucifix which was given to him; which is ironic as he is not a religious man. Despite the crucifix above him, Harker finds sleep impossible. As he is pacing in his room, he happens to see Dracula leave his room twice. Harker mentions Dracula slithers our, like a lizard, with his cloak spread out around him like bat wings. Very shortly after, Harker records that he fears for his sanity;
Over the years people have given new out looks on the original vampire, Dracula. He was a tall non-attractive looking man who would never come out during the day. Hollywood however has made new vampire stories such as Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries/The Originals that have new ideas of a vampire. These novels/books all have differences, but some still have key characteristics of the original vampire.
Carmilla is an example of a woman who loves her food far too much. Carmilla is consumed entirely by her food, even sleeping in a coffin of blood: “The limbs were perfectly flexible, the flesh elastic; and the leaden coffin floated with blood, in which to a depth of seven inches, the body lay immersed” (Le Fanu 102). There exists a unique relationship between the vampire and their victims. Food becomes defined in terms of victimhood, distinctly separated from humanity’s general consumption of meat. The need for human victims makes hunting synonymous with courtship, as intense emotional connections are established between the vampiress and her food. As seen in the intense relationship developed between Laura and Carmilla, the vampire is “prone to be fascinated with an engrossing vehemence, resembling the passion of love, by particular persons” (105). For Carmilla, cruelty and love are inseparable (33). The taking of the victims’ blood for sustenance is a highly sexualized exchange of fluids from one body to another. The act of consumption is transformed into an illicit carnal exchange between the hunter and the hunted.
The "True Blood" series takes a different approach on vampire fantasy fiction. All forms of society have been capitalizing on Vampires fiction for centuries. There have always been vampires stories in entertainment media. Some are well composed and timeless. Others are mediocre and ridiculous. The success of True Blood is based upon the societal interest in vampires, the well written script, and the exceptional cast of the film.
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Count Dracula has been the frontrunner for the modern day vampire lore and legends since being printed back in 1897, pop culture took the vampire traits from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and twisted them. In modern portrayals of vampire lore, each author chooses an original aspect from Stoker but then creates a little bit of their own lore in the process. Count Dracula appears to be a walking corpse from the pale and gaunt visual aesthetics to the coolness of his undead skin (Stoker). In some cultures, the vampire is able to transform from the body of a human being to that of a fellow creature of the night, a bat. In the novel Dracula more than one town was easily visualized through the detailed descriptions throughout the novel, thus
The story is a series of documented diaries written by the characters in the story starting out with Jonathan Harker. Johnathan Harker is on a journey on a train to Castle Dracula in Transylvania. The reason why Count Dracula goes to Transylvania is to sign off a real estate transaction with Count Dracula, Count Dracula is selling his castle because he wants to move somewhere else. Johnathan Harker goes on his trip to meet Count Dracula through the countryside on a train. While on the train during one of the train stops, Johnathan gets visited by the local peasants. The local peasants warn Johnathan Hacker that Count Dracula is frightful and dangerous, but Johnathan Harker does not listen to them. Instead, he ignores what they day and still
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have noticed the prevalence of vampires in today’s culture. One of the most popular television shows in recent years was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer;” Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles continue to be widely read; HBO is currently running a series about vampires called “True Blood;” Wesley Snipes starred in a trilogy of vampire films called Blade; and one of the most successful movies of late is “Twilight,” the story of teen mortals and teen vampires in love. How do we explain the seemingly endless fascination with the undead?
Everyone has heard of vampires, from the award winning novels and movies Twilight to TV shows such as The Vampire Diaries, Vampires have become a worldwide phenomenon. These books, movies and TV shows have come a long way from the “original vampire” Bram Stocker’s Dracula. Written in 1897, Dracula quickly gained popularity and later became a classic. While some may believe that Bram Stoker would be devastated by the portrayal of sparling vampires that restrain from human blood, both Dracula and modern vampires have their merits.
Iconic vampires in pop culture include Dracula, Angel, and Edward Cullen, but the lore can be traced back even further than the earliest thought of each of these icons. Doctor Guiley, a paranormal enthusiast, has researched countless tales of vampires, and has been able to divide her research into five different generalized areas. Doctor Murgatroyd, a professor of humanities at McMaster University, has studied references to vampires and other supernatural creatures throughout the literary history of our world. Doctor Jason Dittmer, a professor of Geology and Geography at Georgia Southern University, speculated on why Dracula was centered in Transylvania, and how it represented the mindset of the world at that point in time.
The Vampire Diaries is a book series by L.J. Smith is a girl named Elena. She is one of the most popular girls in her little town, Fells Church. She loves two vampires, Damon and Stefan, and this causes supernatural creatures to migrate to her town, bringing danger along. Each book narrates her journey through becoming various supernatural creatures herself and trying to ward off any potentially dangerous supernatural creatures that come to Fells Church. Many townspeople blame Elena for the death and horrible events that happened even if she was not there.
In the 2010 research article “Sins of the Flesh,” Emma Dominguez-Rue provides a critical analysis of the erotic glamorization of anorexia nervosa in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). She evaluates the eating disorder in a sociocultural context to demonstrate the detrimental standards of femininity present in the nineteenth century. Exemplary women of the era express devotion to altruism, subordination, and temperance. The conservative, cultural morality depicts women as the inherently lascivious gender with the responsibility of governing their primitive impulses. Victorians perceive immodest dietary consumption as a reflection of a woman’s inability to discipline her sensual nature. In Stoker’s Dracula, the female characters who are vulnerable
Vampires are and have been known to be contradictory individuals in many of the works they are portrayed in. In John Polidori's "The Vampyre" this theme of a contradictory nature is apparent. This theme is brought to light due to the character Lord Ruventh. In the first part of this novel we are introduced to Lord Ruventh through the eyes of Aubrey. He is described as a pale fair gentleman with a strong gaze and allure that allowed him to be desired by woman. Come to find out he is the vampire presents the contradiction that he is actually a blood thirsty monster yet he is so desirable by woman as a fair mysterious gentleman because they do not know the truth until it is too late. Lord Ruventh represents a mysterious figure with “…dead grey
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