How To Read Literature Like A Dracula

What are the essentials to a vampire story? Of course there has to be a Vampire as well as an attractive damsel.
From personally watching Van Helsing, Dracula untold, The Underworld series, and other Vampire movies as well as reading twilight and Dracula, that there are many characteristics that a vampire posses. One of the traits of being a vampire is being Mysteriously attractive. The character must be physically attractive as well as, he or she must, have a disposition of mystery around them that their victims sense but can’t stay away because of their attractiveness. The Character also must be alluring and dangerous which is another reason why their victims can’t stay away.
Most vampires are portrayed as men instead of women but there are stories that cast women as vampire characters as well. The men vampires however seek out young beautiful women who just so happen to be unmarried. Those victims are good for giving birth as well as their youth will make him younger because of their blood and how young it is. My theories were proven when I read How To Read Literature Like A Professor. In this book vampires are old men who prey on young unmarried girls. “Sometimes he’s downright sexy. Always, he’s alluring, dangerous, mysterious…tends to focus on beautiful, unmarried women”(Foster,

Pg.16).
Another thing about vampires is that, although they may not be physically real, they have characteristics that can be applied to real people because they are used to symbolize different things or situations in life.

An example of this is that people could connect vampires to pedophiles and rapists. Vampires are dangerous prey on young women. Pedophiles are also dangerous and prey on young women as well. Also, both pedophiles and vampires are much older than their victims. A third reason that vampires could symbolize pedophiles is that they live amongst groups of people that don’t even know who they are. With that being said, there are many vampires throughout

literature.
In Literature there are also character that can be identified with similar characteristic as vampires but, as in real life, they are not vampires. In the book Phantom of the Opera the female heroine, Christine Diaae, is in her early 20’s if not teens. She has a beautiful voice as well as she is very attractive. She sings beautifully because she takes lessons from this mysterious stranger who is known as the Phantom. The Phantom is older than her by at least 10 years. He can be connected to vampire as they both are going after young beautiful girls. Christine Diaae doesn’t know anything about the Phantom except for that he is a charming mysterious man because he only helps her sing. He doesn’t introduce himself as the Phantom; to her he is known as the Angel of Music. Just like a vampire he is luring her with his charm and mysterious disposition. Another connection is that both him and vampires are dangerous only instead of biting and sucking the blood out of their victims; he is obsessed with her and tries to kidnap her.
Vampire type characters are always better in literature than in real life.