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Underworld Series In the movie series Underworld , there is an ultimate illustration of the fully empowered female vampire. Selene is the first specific turned vampire to be a heroine and she is proud of her turned condition. This film analysis is going to examine the film of the Underworld series. Selene, the main character as the most non-traditional vampire monster along her own accompanying evolution into heroism, how a female vampire’s transforms from sexualized to a full power by her family bond as the daughter of the leader of her coven, Selene is a strong warrior for the Death Dealers. Selene is a not any regular vampire in the Underworld movie series. She sets the standard for female vampires by blatantly disregarding the laws of …show more content…

She always looks and finds the truth to all situations that come her way. An example of this is that she is always concentrated in finding out exactly who killed her family, so much so that she doesn’t focus on her femininity because she was a virgin when she was sired. This is the reason she rejects any romantic advances by anyone, other than Michael Corvin, because she prefers to dedicate every minute to her calling as a Death Dealer. She is the type of person that has the facial features of don’t bother or mess with me. She is of her own self because she doesn’t have anything to do with her own coven even though she is a great Death Dealer for that Coven. Selene protects Michael from the Lycans from the first time she lays eyes on him because there is a dynamic attraction between the two. Michael is a human and gets bit by a lycan that caused him to transform into a lycan. This caused a whole downfall for Selene because her sired father, Viktor, had already killed his own flesh and blood because she fell in love and was pregnant with Lucians baby. The same problem arises when Selene is caught protecting and falling in love with Michael. Selene personifies vampire heroism and is the culmination of female vampire empowerment. This can be shown in the abominations that Kristeva talks about in the weeks of Horror and Monstrous Feminine

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