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山东农业大学 课 程 论 文 科 目 英美文化及影视欣赏 论文题目Vampire Complex in American Culture 学 院 资源与环境学院 专业班级 土管 专业 08级 03班 学生姓名 李晓雯 学 号 任课教师 任艳 2010年6月28日 Vampire Complex in American Culture When talking about vampire, people don’t recognize it as an uncommon word. The famous Hollywood makes it familiar to all over the world. From movies to computer games, you can see the word “vampire” everywhere. Although the vampires are one of the main character in the western terror movies, but compared with ugly monsters, their powers, beautiful features and amazing speed impress us, leaving romance and tragedy to the world. However the origin of vampire is not the Hollywood, it’s an Irish writer named Bram Stoker with his book called Dracula, which made vampire an important role in western culture in 1897.But are vampires really exist in our world? Nobody knows for sure. But not only from the Bible, but also from European history, vampires went with the time. Thousands of people believe in the exist of vampires and shivering in dark for them. In history, people first knew about vampires in 1484 when the whole Europe was in the war with vampires. They came out in the night and hit the people they met in big scope. Because the symptoms of people who were hit were like epidemic, so people thought it was another explosion of epidemic, and many people were buried when they were still alive. However when people opened the grave, they found surprisingly that those who were in the grave had changed their gestures, with blood on their bodies. It was the first time that people got in touch with vampires, and then the story passed down. In fact, the history of vampires is longer than we can imagine. From a mysterious historical data, the first son of Adam and Eva named Canine who was cursed to live in Africa feeding on blood by the God for his ki