Vampire Academy Essays

Okay, so in Vampire Academy you learn that Lisa is a Mori, a vampire that has an elemental power, and that rose is a dhampire, a vampire human hybrid that protects the Mori. Lisa is a special Mori and Rose takes her away from the school in order to protect her. After a while they find Rose and Lisa and take them back to the academy. After they get back Lisa takes basic learning classes and Rose has to make up her training with a guy named Dimitri so she could graduate with Lisa, they left sophomores

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess and a vampire. Her special gift is controlling the earth’s magic and uses compulsion to get what she wants. Rose Hathaway is Lissa’s best friend. Rose is a Dhampir and her blood is a strong mix of vampire and human blood. Rose is determined to keep Lissa safe from the Strigoi. The Strigoi are very viscious vampires and try to transform Moroi’s into their own kind. Lissa and Rose have escaped from St. Vladimir’s Academy in Montana for two years. One night, Rose

both series were worth every word that made it the marvelous, engaging, and can’t-eat-or-sleep-until-I-finish-it type book. The first part of the setting is the world. Richelle Mead has created an urban fantasy world centered around vampires. Yes that’s right, vampires. Please don’t

In the novel Dracula, author Bram Stoker creates a peculiar situation that pushes the main characters to decipher the supernatural from reality. Originally thought of as a myth, Dracula quickly becomes something more than the supernatural. By slowly building the conflict of Dracula himself, Stoker depicts all stages of the change from believing that Dracula is a fictitious character to being face to face with Dracula himself. As he terrorizes the lives of the characters in the novel, they soon come

I believe Van Helsing is one of the most interesting characters in the whole book of Dracula. At a glance I think of Van Helsing as a very intelligent, down to earth, and caring man. The thing is with him is there is something about this man that separates him from all the other characters. If you read a summary of the story, I feel like you really would not even touch what his true self is like. Van Helsing is an essential part of the book, and without him the story would not be the same. I

A Monstrous Metamorphosis “Monsters are real, and Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” (Stephen King). We, as human beings, are constantly inserting the ideas of the monstrous into our culture. If you would look across all the many people of the world you will find that much of their culture centers around monsters. Many books, movies, and television programs center around both the physical and mental state around monsters. For some of us, monsters are even in our dreams

Are you bored of regular roller coaster? Do you like haunted houses? If so come on down and try out the new roller coaster called haunted. The is supposed to be a scary and thrilling roller coaster for all of the passengers to experience. The ride is about three minutes long, and the average wait time to get onto the ride is about 15 minutes long. The maximum weight to get on the ride is 300 pounds, but once every 6 hours the ride does stop letting everyone on so that special carts for the heavier

fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster”(Stoker 66). The journalist that shows up describes the storm, but doesn’t realize that the sea is being controlled by a vampire. Dracula shows how he is evil by starting to create an area of destruction by controlling animals and

‘Dracula’ is a modern play adapted, by Liz Lochhead, from the classic horror novel written by Bram Stoker. The play is set during the Victorian era and develops the key themes that were prevalent during this era such as sexual hypocrisy. Lochhead’s unusual approach places much more significance on the female characters, in particular, Mina and Lucy and puts much less significance on the more well-known and traditional main characters such as Dracula and Van Helsing. The power dynamics of the Victorian

ghost as a vampiric entity is anything but absurd, as long as one does not equal 'vampire' with Dracula as described in the first chapter. An impartial reading reveals a great number of similarities between the depiction of Catherine and Heathcliff and common vampire tropes. Wuthering Heights shares a type of anti-hero with the first vampire narrative, an archetype which was later imitated by the most influential vampire novels in history. The sustenance from a victim required by the definition introduced

The author focuses on the black and feminine experience of the black women in the white society. Her feminine identity as well as her radical identity has molded her vision of the city. More important was Brook’s objective treatment of issues such as identity Crisis and racism. In the collection of A Street in Bronzeville, the characters range from the death-in-life figure of a woman in Obituary for a living lady. The unnamed woman in the poem, a person Brooks knew well. As a child she was decently

Dracula’s Origin How far would you go to save someone you love? Would you throw away your human identity for them? These are the types of questions that the director of the lore episode “They made a tonic”, Darnell Martin, asks the audience. Ms. Martin is a well acclaimed director, having many of her projects nominated for prestigious awards such as Cadillac records, Firelight, and I Like it Like That. Martin also won best new director in 1994, with her release of I Like it Like That. Most recently

periods, using vampire gothic novels as examples. Firstly, in the novel Dracula, Count Dracula is defined as the “outside”, who yet reflects some human tendency and instinct. Secondly, using the novel Interview with the vampire as an example, the introspective vampires like Louis are considered as the “inside”, who symbolize modern consciousness however lacking in the “outside”. Ultimately the “outside” is transformed into the deeper inside

It is not just women in Victorian society who suffered due to complicated sexuality; Johnathan Harker was a victim of the open sexuality displayed by the vampire women. In his journal he writes “The girl went on her knee and bent over me, simply gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck, she actually licked her lips like an animal.” When he says “Bent over me” it makes the girl seem of a higher status than him. In these times

ver time, humans have always created stories and conjured up personifications of evil to explain the unknown - whether it was the myth of the vampire, spurred on by Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the receding of skin that causes a corpse’s nails to appear longer, or the myth of Wendigos, a create of evil in Native American culture. Many cultures and civilizations, new and old, have their fairytales and monsters in the dark, to explain the unknown. We see this in Beowulf, where Grendel is a representation

Zombies have been portrayed in cinema and on television for almost a century, in which time the zombie has developed and altered to reflect the world around us, particularly our fears, worries and guilt. Zombies’ beginnings as meagre representations of Haitian voodoo have now been replaced with modern fears such as a rampant airborne virus or a toxic water supply resulting in contamination and death. These simple changes noticeably demonstrate the shifting outlook of society and prove that the Zombie

The movie Cut is a short film directed by Park Chan Wook. The film begins with a vampire sucking blood from her victim; she gets a call during which she becomes violently sick. Then the camera zooms out and flashes to a back room where a director, played by Lee Byung Hun watches the scene unfold and the audience sees that the first scene is a film being short. The shooting comes to an end. He goes home and calls his wife, using the same lines that were used in the film. After arriving in his room

characters, mysterious character, delightful situation, and story backgrounds, numerous references to previous movies of the series, and full of personal and complete human drama. Tom Hardy acting as Max Rockatansky, is chased and incarcerated by the vampire-like men of Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), fastened into a post-Bane facade mask which here is used as a blood bag. The world shown in the movie has water, oil and ammunition treated as currency, with additional “mother’s milk” pumped from steam-punk

Lust and attraction to Vampires – Psychological Power “For a couple minutes there , I thought I was going to go nuts. Really, clinically nuts. Her lips on me biting...biting me... And when she was doing it, I liked it, Ben. That's the hellish part...” said by Jimmy Cody in Salem's Lot(page 413-414). Lust, the strong sexual desire, is a theme presented throughout Salem's Lot. Salem's Lot is a town that is full of adultery and lust. Lust is commonly confused with love. Lust is purely a physical attraction

Dracula traps Jonathan Harker in his castle, but he finally escapes without the Count killing him. Dracula then sucks Lucys blood and turns her into a vampire. At this point everyone is against the bloodsucker. Since Lucy died, well turned into a vampire. Lucys friends have to stab her in the heart and cut off her head. Dracula gets to Mina, which is Jonathans wife. Dracula is going after everyone that is close to each other. The Szgany also has a few