Changing Vampire Behavior

The Different Changing Vampire Behaviors Between The Salvatore Brothers

The CW television show The Vampire Diaries, based on the book series, is a popular supernatural drama which has followed three main characters: Elena Gilbert, Stefan Salvatore, and Damon Salvatore. The series is location is a town called Mystic Falls. Elena at the beginning of the series is a human that lives with her brother and aunt because her parents died in a car accident. She meets one of the Salvatore brothers at school and is instantly attracted to him. The series later on starts a love triangle between the brothers. Recently on the television show, Elena Gilbert’s character was written off in a way that the show could bring the character back in the future if they

The vampire has transformed from being scary, old, unattractive, and unhuman, to being young, attractive, acts like a human, and fits in more. The traditional vampire style made a huge change when the soap opera show Dark Shadows made vampires question its nature. Since then, vampires have split into being more human-like and/or still stay true to the traditional vampire roots. Vampires have evolved into having love interests with humans and some even help fight real evils, other than themselves. In The Vampire Diaries, Stefan is more of the human-hero vampire, but he does struggle with his true nature. Damon at the beginning of the series does not have a conscious and does not really care for other humans since he drinks human blood. There is a power struggle between the two Salvatore brothers throughout the series. The question remains that will Damon show that deep down he has some sort of conscious or is he just pure evil? Julia Plec, executive producer/writer throws into this idea that, “We like to think the darker a character goes, the more we’ll get a window into where they have light and the opposite as well”

Stefan saw Elena for the first time trying to rescue her from a horrible car accident. He noticed that Elena looks exactly like his past lover, Katherine, who turned him into the vampire, just like Damon. He decided to stay back and find out more about Elena, which is why he enrolled back into high school. Paul Wesley, who plays “Stefan” and sometimes other minor characters in the television series, discussed in an interview how his character is similar to himself in real life. Paul mentioned how they both moved a lot throughout life, did not really fit in, and were trouble-makers (Vampire Diaries Guide). Damon likes to refer to his brother sarcastically as “Saint Stefan” because of how well he behaves as a vampire. Stefan wants a normal life and being a vampire contradicts his morals. Wesley confirms with this by saying, “Stefan hates being a vampire, he doesn’t want to be a vampire. He’s constantly struggling with the dark side. He has a need to feed on human blood. It’s not easy for him not to do it. He wants to experience life as a normal human being, whereas his brother loves vampirism; he’s enjoying it” (Channel Guide Magazine). Throughout the show, Stefan continues to do a lot of human things still like writing and listening to