Research on the Vampires.

Primary and Secondary

Secondary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person.

I have found out, from various books and short novels, that most vampires the author portrays are evil, bloodthirsty and feed off blood or sexual desire. Most authors view female vampires a 'succubus' meaning they feed off sex while their male victim is sleeping, and then kill them afterwards. All vampires I have read - except The Twilight Saga - have fangs.

Primary


I conducted my own survey/questionnaire on what the public think of vampires and how they view them.

I asked 5 people 6 questions on how they see/view vampires.

• How do you view vampires?

most people answered - fangs; evil; pale skin; red eyes; no reflection; nomads; capes; tall; sadistic.

• What do you think vampires feast on? - Blood? -Sex? - Anything alive?

Five of the five people answered 'blood'.

• Fangs or no fangs?

Everyone answered 'fangs'.

• Manipulative or just bloodthirsty?

Three out of the five people answered 'manipulative'. Two of the five answered 'bloodthirsty'.

• Dracula-styled or sexy?

Four answered 'Dracula-styled'. One answered 'sexy'.

• Edward Cullen or Dracula?

Dracula won this one. Edward Cullen got no votes.


My primary research tells me that most prefer their vampires to be manipulative, evil, have fangs, and drink blood. It's the typical view of a vampire.

Judging on modern vampire films, the vampires are portrayed beautiful. This confuses me because the people I asked preferred their vampires Dracula-styled. This may be because they like suspense and that 'real' view of a vampire and how the vampire was first portrayed.

Due to this, I think the best thing to do, and I feel it'll be effective, is that I write Vladimir that is beautiful on the outside, but ugly and mean on the inside.