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Vampires: Blood-Sucking Beasts or Misunderstood Monsters?
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The Big Picture
In Contrast: Twilight (2008)
Dracula: A Modern Day Vampire
Source: YouTube
The Missing Pieces
The First Vampire
- Stake: Russia & Baltic States; used to "deflate" a vampire
- Garlic: Egypt/Slavic regions; believed to promote life and wellbeing
- Holy Symbols (Cross, holy texts): Religious populations; thought to ward off evil and darkness
- The weakness to sun
- The weakness to silver
- The appearance/bloodlust
- The coffin
A Quick Comparison
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Sources: http://www.gods-and-monsters.com/facts-about-vampires.html; Taylor T (28 October 2007). "The real vampire slayers". The Independent (London). Text
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- Ambrogio Lorenzetti, a young adventurer born in Italy
- Travels to Greece to receive fortune, meets
Selene
- Apollo, in a fit of rage, curses him
- Also cursed by Artemis, after betraying her
trust
- Dracula (1931): 91% "fresh" via Rotten Tomatoes
- Twilight (2008): 48% "fresh" via Rotten Tomatoes
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/resources/pdf/citations/2010/11Sheperd_English.pdf
Source: https://www.lagrange.edu/resources/pdfcitations/2010/11Sheperd_English.pdf
Picture: Google Images
Images: Google Images
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
Dracula: A Modern Day Vampire
So... What Happened?
- Written in 1897 by Bram Stoker
- Tells of the battle between Count Dracula and Professor Abraham van Helsing
- Inspired countless spin-off novels, movies, television shows
- Written by Stephenie Meyer in 2005, adapted into a movie in 2008
- Broke many accepted stereotypes for vampire novels
- Changing demographic
- What's "popular" and what's not
- Target age group