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The Vampyre By Jane Eyre: Monster Or Villain?

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The resurrection of the vampire myth coincided with the fears experienced during nineteenth century England. Warwick discussed the closing of the century and the manifestation of this myth: The very existence of a modern myth is something of a curiosity as it appears to defy the kinds of explanations usually offered in terms of ‘mankind’s deepest fears’ and the eternal and universal nature of those fears, and rather to imply a concentration of culturally specific horrors (Warwick 202).
Her statement proves true in the sense that the vampire is culturally specific. In a society where the newest fears arising was disease and reverse colonization, they required a different type of villain. By the time The Vampyre appeared in print, readers
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