Vampires and werewolf creatures are known to cause fear of the unknown and outsiders to the society. Vampires and werewolves are mythical creatures that kill human being or instill fear but there are significant differences between them. Importantly to note is that, the two creatures or figures differ greatly as depicted in most folklore, literature, and films. Many scholars have been concerned with the aspects and perspectives that bring about the difference between the aforementioned figures in different cultures. Differently cultures embed different feelings, beliefs, and attributes to various creatures under discussion in this paper. Some have argued that, monsters exist to be read, and they are etymologically revealed to people from various settings. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the vampire and werewolf as depicted in films, literature, and folklores. Further, I will highlight what the differences reveal about the underlying meaning of the werewolf and vampire in people’s way of life (Brown 262).
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According to Bella, Vampire can be described as a godlike creature, which is glorious and terrible. Generally, vampires are monsters that turn themselves into immaterial and vanish, and reappear in a different place. No matter how many times the ogre is killed, it reappears in another heroic chronicle. In this case therefore, vampires’ body is both corporal and incorporeal; in fact, its threat forms its propensity to shift (Phillips 295). Vampires return to life after death is one mysterious encounter, since as depicted by most folklore, they tend to take new form and shape, slightly different clothes and are found almost all over the world. This implies that, vampires don’t age and are immortal with the exemption of few things that kill them such as garlic and sunlight. Their reappearance analysis still remains in double act of reconstitution and construction. Notably, vampire attributes and features are associated by a logic that always threatens to shift, change and escape after the desired fall, death, or stopping. On the other hand, werewolves are known to be closely related to human beings in that they die and age just like human beings (Patterson 311).
In another instance, through literature one is able to note that, werewolves spends most of their time as human beings and consequently feed and exhibit similar characteristics to that of human beings. In contrast, vampires are categorically associated with drinking of blood and hence they can be classified as deadly creatures. The two creatures known for their human like appearance and have a tendency to attack and convert humans into weird and terrible creatures just like them (Wahyudi, Nababan and Wiratno 134).
Werewolves show unusual strength, reflexes, and senses. Such characterization and categorization can be found in films, literature, and television shows to illustrate and demonstrate the existence of demigods and figures that are mythically associated with fear in the society. There are various ways noted in the ancient Greek in which a person turns into a wolf (Kokkola 46).
In much folklore, we are made to understand that, a vampire is a figure that instills a lot of fear to people through its association with crooked behaviors such as kidnapping, raping cases, thievery and consequently leads to most of characters being associated with vampires attitudes. On the other hand, werewolf is a figure that constantly changes into a wolf and back to a person.
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