Expository Essay
The genre of essay which defines about the investigation of an idea, evaluation of evidence; it helps to conclude a result on the topic for readers. These essays can be completed by comparison and contrast, definition or the analysis. These essays are basically divided into five major parts which are defined below:
Descriptive Essay: The essay which explains about any place, experience or about any condition.
Process essay: The essay which is used to define any process of producing or acting something
Comparison Essay: The essay which is used to compare the characteristics of two different things
Cause Essay: The type of essay which is used to identify the reason behind any activity or any work.
Problem/Solution essay: When an essay is explaining about any problem or solution about any concern (Morin, 2019).
Contrast of Two Vampires
Vampire are the creatures with fangs, consume the blood of humans, these are the folklore or mythical creatures dominantly in distinct cultures of Europe from years ago, most of the people still believe in them. These are the best known monsters who always shown as classical in their living. Generally vampire hunts at night because according to folk tales sunlight weakens their power, in some tales the belief was that they might transform into bat or wolf, their image cannot be seen in the mirror (Aparici, García-Marín, & Díaz-Delgado, 2019). It is defined that they have many super power like hypnotic, sensual effect on their prey. In history one of the most known vampire name after Dracula he was known as Vlad the Impaler he ruled Romania from 1456-1462. He was considered as cruel ruler who fought with huge violence in Ottoman Empire. His name was compared with the Vlad Dracula because he killed his enemies with the impaling them on a wooden stake (Chang & Lee 2019). According to stories written by the stoker’s imagination Dracula he created in his stories he was born in Transylvania who sucked blood of his victim and impale stake through heart of Victim. Vampire becomes popular by the beginning of 20th Century as creature of fantasy, between 1960-70’s rumors of vampire starts to uproar England and it was believed that they were seen at High gate Cemetery in London. Vampire becomes a nationwide phenomenon and to compare them two characters are taken. Bram Stroker’s Dracula it was a novel which was written in 1897 (Costello, 2019). In the modern concepts about Vampire they are seen inhumanly attractive. The contrast between the Vampire of Folk tales and Novel Twilight Saga is totally different so considering to their physical attributes the vampire of folk tales are not shown in any action they always seen in coffins .
According to folk tales their mouth was covered with the blood they have human bodies and pointed canines with growing nail, skin and nails (Frith, 2019) They move in very fast speed that they cannot be seen by any human being. In the novel Twilight saga there body shines inn sunlight like a diamond due to which they can be identified as Vampire. While according to Carpe Jugulum their body get burn and transformed into ashes if get contact in sunlight. Different concepts were given that how they were made, in folk tales it was assumed that they were suffering from some fatal disease which cannot be defined or examined, it was also explained that the person who perform suicide becomes vampire. In the fiction novel it was explained that either the person will born as a Vampire or will be converted in vampire when bitten by other vampire (Halberstam, 1993). According to the novel Twilight when a male Vampire and female human will conceive a child will give birth to a creature having ability of human and Vampire both because a body of female Vampire is not able to conceive a child. In the novel it was written that every vampire possess a special ability in twilight saga the character Edward have ability to understand thinking of other person, Alice was the vampire who can see future, at the other case when Aro touch the hand of any person he come to know all thoughts, while there were no such abilities were defined in folktales about Vampires. In folk stories mode of killing by vampires was also different according to story of Plogowitz it was 24 hours of illness and after by the choking in dream the person will be lead to death but in the fiction novels the mode of killing was through biting on neck and by sucking blood. Other point of contrasting about killing the vampire in folktales it was declared that their corpse should be beheaded and burn down into ashes.
In the fiction tales or novel when they were stake into their heart through wooden pieces or their head needs to be cut down and after burning them into ashes Vampires can be killed. In some of the fiction stories it was written that a vampire cannot be killed truly they can be reborn (Senf, 1982). One of the major area of their contrast is that in fiction tales they have more than one dimension in looking, they have their own specific personality. While in the folk tales they are evil creature who are black in conception and needed to be eliminated. The thing which is point to notice is that any person who told about vampire in folktales never seen a vampire moving they always mentioned about their corpses or coffins which was heard from some other person. In fiction it is totally different according to those stories they were the real character which were plotted in the story. In folk tales it was shown that they always feeds human blood and survive on it, but in fiction stories explains that they can survive on animal blood as well. According to the mythology they were the evil creatures animalistic in nature and their aura was surrounded by the horror, while in fiction including their thrilling part their positive aura is also explained.
References:
Aparici, R., García-Marín, D., & Díaz-Delgado, N. (2019). Vampires on the Web. The explotation of youth culture. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, (74), 197-213.
Chang, P., & Lee, M. (2019). Exploring textual and interpersonal Themes in the expository essays of college students of different linguistic backgrounds. English for Specific Purposes, 54, 75-90.
Costello, D. (2019). Female Vampires as Embodied Critiques of Heteronormativity, Blood-Mixing, and Patriarchy. Embodied Difference: Divergent Bodies in Public Discourse, 99.
Frith, P. (2019). The curse of the thing is Technicolor blood: why need vampires be messier feeders than anyone else?’: The BBFC and Hammer’s Colour Films, 1957–1962. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 39(2), 233-250.
Halberstam, J. (1993). Technologies of Monstrosity: Bram Stoker’s” Dracula”. Victorian Studies, 36(3), 333-352.
Morin, T. (2019). Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children’s Media ed. by Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 44(1), 128-130.
Senf, C. A. (1982). ” Dracula”: Stoker’s Response to the New Woman. Victorian Studies, 26(1), 33-49.
Tracy, R. (1990). Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. In Sex and death in Victorian literature (pp. 32-59). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
