Summary

Danai Tekle

In this article, Angela Tenga and Elizabeth Zimmerman brought out the differences between vampires and zombies. In their point of view, vampires have changed dramatically from the past to the present. One of the most popular vampires in the past was Dracula. He was the evil vampire who harmed people and he was the definition of a nightmare. As years went on, vampires became softer hearted and more like a superhero. Vampires started to become more similar to humans. They started obeying human laws and they respected society’s norms. The authors showed that vampires were portrayed as the good guy instead of being the nightmare that they used to be. Vampires lacked that whole reality of corpse and had a sexual desire while zombies were rotting corpse. Zombies don’t do any good; all that they do is threaten the security and lives of other humans while vampires are more into the romance and getting along with other humans. The authors really focused on the viewer’s ideas and thoughts on these two monsters. The main concern for the viewers about these monsters is how they portrayed age and death. Movie’s like Twilight made people want to be like them. The Twilight series made the viewer’s not fear aging. The problems about zombies were that you physically decay and your body is disgusting. It only caused the viewers of these films to be afraid of ageing. The relationship with between vampires and humans is normal and they usually get along well while zombies and humans don’t. Zombies don’t care who you are, they will harm you. In the article, vampire capitalists played a huge role. Vampires evolved because instead of feeding of society like they usually do, they became the products of society. Humans could benefit greatly from vampires while zombies don’t benefit humans at all. Even though Zombies became the present day monsters, vampires will always be important because of culture and history. Present day monsters changed because a child learns that the “monster” is just as scared of him as he is of it. The child learns how scary the monster really is.