Vampires - Then and Now

             Vampires are mythological beings who survive by feeding on the blood of living creatures. The vampire has been defined down the ages as an accursed body which cannot rest in the kindly earth, but nightly leaves its grave to prey on sleeping men and women through whom they are believed to maintain a semblance of life by sucking the warm blood of such victims while they sleep. Stories of vampire-like creatures have been told worldwide from nearly the beginning of ancient history. The physical appearance, habits, motives, and other characteristics of vampires, appear to differ based on the time period in which the vampire folklore originated. Vampire movies are now much different than they used to be. Interactions, the way they were affected, and their death were major changes that were made to recent vampire movies.
             Vampires now interact with people much different than they used to. Today, if a person mentioned vampires, we would picture a charming, irresistible, modern vampire who dazzles everyone who gets to know them. Not many can deny that one of the defining characteristics of vampires now is their blatant sexuality and eroticism. Vampires were supposed to be a thing of fear and disgust. They could shape-shift into bats to gain access to their prey or even find their way out of a situation. Rather than feed on humans, vampires can now drink "true blood" such as from the show True Blood, or from blood bags, which they do in the show Vampire Diaries. Darkness was how they survived and would only leave during the night to feed on a human. Vampires now walk among humans, even being able to hide the fact they are not human if they tried hard enough.
             As Carl Sagan says in his article The Mystery of Life, "Do the beings of other worlds look much like life on Earth? Or are they stunningly different-other adaptations to other environments?". Most vampires now portray the role of being a "hero". We mainly get t...

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