Vampire Vs Dracula

Romanticism is something of a constant play, the pieces to me always seem so foreign given the leagues differences in what I am used to. Romanticism also seemed to me like it should be foreign to the vampire. Being a twenty-year old kid from America, I already had a preconceived idea on what a vampire should be, how it should act and look like etc, so seeing and reading these things act like a bunch of overdramatized bunch of actors I honestly couldn’t take many of the stories seriously. Nothing clicked with me, there wasn’t enough conflict even with the fear and danger of being around/being a vampire. These creatures are in their own time but still seem out of place, and while I understand that has to do with their flat out absence of life; they are supposed to be out of place, it …show more content…
Vampires were made popular from stories such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire, etc; these stories have been said to give birth to the modern vampires. Though originally, vampires were said to be women, now they can have any gender. Vampires are depicted as handsome, charismatic, charming pale human beings that prefer feasting on human blood. Though in the olden days they were considered as vicious demons, numerous books and movies have now humanized them, tamed them and gave them feelings. Each writer or author has had the liberty of changing the beings according to their wishes and while some chose to make them more vulnerable to the sun by causing them to burn horrifically; others gave them the ability to glitter. Vampires are also depicted as having abilities such as ESP, telepathy, telekinesis and the ability to turn into bats or other animals. These version of the vampire seem far more fleshed out far more coherent and far more terrifying. They have established abilities and weakness