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Characteristics of Vampires today and Vampires in History

In History the most Famous Vampire was the one and only Bram stokers Draculas. Today when there is talk about vampire automatically the first name that comes to mind is Edward Cullen. The look of these two vampires is a clear visualization of how our perception of vampires has changed. They have many of the same basic “vampire” characteristics, but are distinctly viewed differently. How has the evolution of vampires affected their category of being a “monster”? Overtime the glorification of these inhuman/human like creatures has diminished the position they hold on the level of fear they are able to evoke.

Dracula's whole character was developed from Romanian times where vampires were seen as blood sucking sadist. In this time period vampires were known to take on different shapes and formations such as, bats or wolves.. They were evil monster in which humans feared. Dracula was your 19th century “boogeyman” seen as being a cloaked in black, blood dripping, fanged, hunched over, slick haired monster. …show more content…

Dracula we portrayed as the “villain”. Dracula's own words -: "I have killed men and women, old and young...23,884 Turks and Bulgarians without counting those whom we burned alive in their homes or whose heads were not chopped off by our soldiers (Axinte). Dracula was more infamous than famous. He was known to be a terrible heartless person who preyed on innocence and got a rise out of

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