In chapter 4 the author discusses how vampires are more than vampires. Monsters are usually a representation of something. For instance, vampires. Vampires are usually male and prey on young, sweet, virginal women. The author gives examples from Dracula and suggests that virginal women found him to be sexy though he was usually an only, grumpy man. He preyed on virginal women because he enjoyed being the one to rob him of their innocence. He would seduce them, turn them into a vampire like him, and she would begin finding other victims while he turned youthful and energetic. As I read novels, especially fictional one, I always try to keep my eyes open in search of a deeper meaning to the story. While reading I've learned that almost everything is symbolic.
For example, Scruge and his ghosts. Ghost are a symbol or a sign. Ghost are present in a story usually to inform a character of a possible happening our outcome to a situations. Ghost are used as a warning sign. If you think about it, every horror film that a ghost appears in the ghost is usually trying to warn someone of something. Maybe of a horrible death that may have happen and now the ghost is haunting the house because their soul was never put to rest. I think that is why I actually prefer ghost movies because there is always a better story line, or a dramatic twist. Ghost stories always have a great climax.
Another example of a symbolic supernatural character is the witch. Witches are another one of my favorite characters because of how mysterious they seem to be. You can never really predict what they are going to do next, but one thing is for sure, you never want to get in their bad side. What I like the most about witches are that they are more than likely women. Women because witches a long time ago because they felt like the men were mistreating them and they weren't being treated equally by society, so they practiced "witch craft" to be able to cast spells and alter peoples lives that made them angry.
It's actually quite funny to me. As Foster says in chapter 4, vampires are people who are willing to "suck the lives out of others" to get what they want to make themselves better. If you think about a lot of humans are vampires! Every day of our lives we have people who bring us down in order to bring themselves down. Some humans have supernatural vampire characteristics. There are some movie where vampires are not even the traditional looking vampires. They can be the average mean girl in a movie who picks on insecure lower class men with low self esteem in order to gain popularity from her fellow classmates. And, ironically students who are picked on sometimes turn into the "mean girl" to someone else only because their innocence what sucked away from them and now they are doing to the same to others. I know a lot of vampires. Do you?
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