What do you think of when you hear the word vampire, in an early time people would think horror or even immortality and bats. Today when people hear the word vampire they think of sexy and romantic, but why. Why has the thought of vampires changed in the recent time from Dracula to Edward Cullen? Well, that’s because of modern changes in today’s sexual repressions and how they affected the classic story of the vampire that we all know and love into what is now the modern story of the romantic vampire that we all lust for in today’s day and age.
Since the 1920’s classic Bram Stoker's iconic "Dracula," today’s vampires have transformed themselves from creepy creatures of the night sexy sparkly creepy creatures of the night that just don’t seem to live up to the “myth” that is the vampire. "We've been making them more believable and real, I think that's why the trend has kind of skyrocketed a little bit. They straddle the fantastical and the realistic, and they're making it even more so now." (Woerner, 2009) This is because vampire movies seem to break the rules on what is the vampire myth for example; lets take the two vampires that we all know and love, Count
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Dracula is a man that has lives for centuries and has seen things that no one else has seen, he doesn’t know what the sunrise looks like anymore because before dawn can hit he has to be in his coffin alone with no other company but his own, he can transform into a bat as his fast transportation when he doesn’t want