An Analyss of the Changes of the Image of Vampires.docVIP

Chapter One: Introduction Vampire, most of whose original versions are bloody and horrible, is an important and mysterious image in the western culture. In the long history of vampire image, it’s not difficult to find that the image has changed a lot. Firstly, the author would study the variable phase image of vampire in the western culture. In Christianity, the ancient of vampire is defined as Cain, who murders his little brother, or Lilith the lover of Satan, or Judas, who betrays the Christ. In the middle age, people believe that vampire is the dead people who are heretic, criminal, or self-slayer, etc. They climb out of graves, drift around, suck people’s blood, and before dawn, they have to go back. However in the 18th century, vampire become a favorite of novels, especially in The Romantic Period, gothic fictions about vampire are great welcomed. The image has firstly become suave. Then in the 21st century, the image has undergoing a great change. The vampire image trends to be more elegant, beautiful, and smart. . （接下来要讲述吸血鬼形象变化的原因） Chapter two:The Origin of Vampire Nowadays, literature about vampire is more and more famous. For most people, there is no such creature as “The Vampire”, there are only vampires. “Throughout the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, so dreaded and abhorred, yet endowed with such fearful fascination as the vampire; who is himself neither ghost nor demon but who partakes of the dark natures, and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both. Around the vampire have clustered the most somber superstitions, for he is a thing which belongs to no world at all.”(Summers, 1928) Since vampires are immortal, they are free to change incessantly. Eternally alive, they embody not fear of death, and their power with their curse is their undying vitality. From the well known Cain in The Bible to the popular new star Lestat in The Vampire Chronicle, vampires infect readers wi