ENG 510 Lecture 8: 8. The Vampyre
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Often an element of seduction; pray on their victims with their sex appeal. Aristocratic/high class; sophisticated: because they"ve lived for a long time, they"ve had time to accumulate significant wealth and manners. Oppression: representative of high class feeding off the poor. We tend to think of vampires now as tragic heroes that try to repress their evil nature: aims at revising the character and emphasizing its sex appeal and romantic interest rather than its unholy and evil nature. Superstition vs rationality the older folk and religious traditions in europe. Religion was described in rational terms, insisting on the perfect order of creation and the universe. The enlightenment"s insistence on reason and logic had weeded out most of. Romanticism"s interest in the middle ages and folklore rediscovers and world; it"s also a confrontation with the darker side of imagination values the irrational, as embodied in superstitions, and fantastical creatures. Vampires belong to a different range of folk beliefs from eastern europe.
