I'm not sure that Stoker or Rice ever touched on this topic, but we can draw an interesting comparison between Vampires in the Lemon Grove and the HBO series True Blood. In Russell's story, the myths about vampires (e.g. sunlight, mirrors, etc.) are of human origin, and function to terrify the vampires against certain actions. In the HBO series, however, these myths were of vampire origin, allowing them to assimilate into human society by secretly sowing the wrong perception of the nature of a vampire. The vampires are empowered in True Blood, but weakened in Russell's version, all due to the origin and intention of their mythos.
Maybe this issue is tackled in Twilight or some other vampire literature, but I'm not aware of any.
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Around Holloween there was a special on vampires and one focused on Erezbet Bathory (1560-1614). She was convinced that bathing in blood made her skin look younger, therefore she had blood you young women brought in for her baths. Over six hundred women died and many more were tortured because of her obsession over the "fountain of youth." Investegations were held after the death of four noblewomen, however; Bathory was never convicted due to her social standing (nobility).
ReplyDeleteIn True Blood, aren't some of the stereotypes true though (He gets burned really bad in the sunlight when he's trying to save Suki). In Twilight Stephanie shatters all conventional beliefs of vampires, clainming that the vampires let the stereotypes exist, like you said to assimilate. However in Twilight they are for different reasons. Like in the sun the sparkle and dont burn, but regardless they would draw attention to themselves.
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