Questionnaire analysis

Aims

In this part of my essay the results of the questionnaire are presented. The aim of this part is to get a comprehensive picture about people’s opinion in connection with vampires and their images. I am curious about which vampire do today’s people prefer and which characteristics are best known; the classic or the modern type. I would also like to be informed about which literary works and movies have they heard about containing vampires and to what extent is this knowledge in connection with age and gender. This survey is divided into three parts; the first part contains personal information, the second part is about the respondent’s general knowledge of those literary works, which include vampires and the last part is the common people’s opinions and experiences about vampirism. All in all, my goal is to find out; are the issues presented in chapter one are as serious as it is often said?

Participants, data and analysis

To get an accurate image, I gave the opportunity for all age groups, who are interested in this topic or would like to express their opinion about vampire literature, to answer the questions. To tell the truth, the results of the first question, in which I asked the respondents’ age, are quite surprising in my view. Before the survey I expected that mostly teenagers or young adults are willing to open a questionnaire with the title “Vampires’ Influence on Today’s Society”. Nonetheless, the youngest respondent was twelve years old, but the oldest one was seventy-three. I divided the participants into four age groups. The first group consists of teenagers, between the age of twelve and nineteen. The following bunch contains young adults from the age of nineteen to twenty-five. The third age range is betwee...

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...nor the books. In my view this result is disappointing because at least the name Dracula must be a part of basic knowledge. Otherwise, these teenagers agree completely that at least one vampire novel should be compulsory at school, but I am sure that they associate only with the modern romantic fantasy books. On the other hand, men tend to be skeptical about this topic. Six out of eight male responses of this survey present negative answers and they express how much they dislike these centuries’ vampires, but the tone and the answers of the other two men respondent’s is also neutral. Nevertheless, they may be in a difficult situation because based on the teenage girl’s and young adult’s answers, the phenomenon of vampirism increased the expectations for men. Unfortunately it can also cause huge disappointments for young ladies when they experience the real life.