The Depiction And Revolution Of Vampires In Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga & Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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The role of vampires and vampire novels is growing in popularity among readers, investigators, and filmmakers in today's literary world. Vampires can now be encountered almost everywhere in contemporary civilization. Novels, short stories, series, movies, and video games, as well as animated children's television shows and cereal boxes, contain them. Vampire Studies courses are currently available at a number of different colleges. To begin, the current study looks at a literary review as well as the vampire's fictions to see where the similarities end and the differences begin. In this study, three principal characteristics of the vampire will be discussed: the setting, the presence, and the vampire's approach toward other characters. The transformation in the perception of vampires during the period will be handled with these categories in this current study, where the concentration on fright falls. Nonetheless, this article examines how, by removing some frightening elements from the story, the vampire has transformed from a villain to a hero. The transition of the vampire into a virtuous person to whom humanity can pray has societal ramifications.
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