Interview With The Vampire, The Walking Dead And The New World Translation Of The Living Dead

As intellectual creatures, humans strive to understand the world and most importantly themselves. One of the avenues by which this is done is by means of speculation. As far as humans are concern, they are born, then they grow old and die. Which raise questions such as, what is the purpose of life and what happens after death? To answers these unknowns, humans have created monsters as an avenue of explaining what they presume to be fact. Two of such monsters are zombies and vampires. To analyze these monsters some prominent extracts in vampire and zombie literatures will be considered, such as Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, The Walking dead as well as the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. In the novels from which the aforementioned

The phrase we us to describe vampires and zombies, “Un-dead” (Stoker 179) and “the living dead” (Brooks 143) respectively, tells us how we view life and death. Vampires are considered undead in the sense that they, like the living, have a functional cognitive process. In addition, they also possess the ability to love and to form an emotional connection with a fellow vampire and or humans. However the key factor that makes them undead is their immortality, which separates vampires from humans. In vampires, our desire for love is exposed, which is one of our greatest need. Vampires died when their yearning for love is not

Lucy’s health deteriorated rapidly, despite the best efforts of the doctors she died. Humans will do whatever it takes to safeguard their life. However, we still get sick and there is no guarantee that we will get better despite the proficiency of our healthcare workers. In like manner zombies accentuate our fear of sickness. After behind bitten by a zombie the individual goes through a series of symptoms “high fever, shivering violently, aggressive behaviors” (Brooks 6) that eventually claimed their lives. Through our monsters we see fear of sickness, which eventually leads