The vampirólogos most expert, Dr. Van Helsing, he came upon the great truth in 1931. Dracula was, Todd Browning's film with Bela Lugosi, "a vampire's strength lies in the fact that there is" already at that time, Van Helsing knew that vampires were doomed to be one of the key icons of this century, and promptly following the rules that the project makes a century, the great novel by Bram Stoker.
Especially in Asia and it took thousands of years certain of these creatures, and entered Europe via the Balkans. But it was Stoker in Dracula who outlined their final features and thrilling power. Had to be, as Stoker, steeped in England's Puritan and imprisoned in the consolidation of individualism and narcissism more vulgar. An entire civilization, from which democratized the mirrors in the sixteenth century, known as Descartes bounce off the cold surface of a glass, and believe they have found the subject.
Vampires are not on the surface of a glass because, in fact, already there, and therefore do not need to be seen. Are the other, when they put his face hardened to repeated against the coldness of those who are calling mirror. And so, as the devil, vampires can not enter a house unless they have been invited. When someone tries to seduce or be seduced and calling the nosferatu and perpetual night kiss. "I think therefore I am" seems to say Dracula, and so, after him, and through the Interview of Anne Rice, these creatures of darkness have become a sad symbol of youth more tedious and insistent.
The more is known about them, the stronger is the Stoker's novel. Like anyone, he knew he had to fear them, and that fear is essential for staging it. Thus, with overwhelming delight, with the more puritanical default, the reader attends an almost tragic scene where the vampire is more formidable the more away, the more invisible. Alone in the privacy of their bedrooms to the gentlemen, even the doctor Van Helsing, not even the reader, can come in, Lucy Westenra and Mina Morris are released to the modesty of his agency. Only hear gusts of wind, frost and windows that open wounds. The blind scenario in which some men are not thrilled how to objectify the enemy and only from a distance and powerless, believe guess the whisper, kiss rabid vampire's hypnotic saudade.
Few books are more shocking than Dracula: go through the pages and goose bumps. So great is the scene of fear there is no way to turn it therapeutic catharsis will never, though Stoker tool that Van Helsing and his chase and kill Dracula castle in Romania. And from that fear, from the indecision, from the lean finale, was born the true immortality of the nosferatu. Because once the scene started this espeluzno enlarges, the tremor is fruition and there is no way (for more, let her novelist) to kill him. You can no longer live, and can not die. For how You can kill something that does not exist, it is more seductive? Not with stakes, or to hunt atonement, it is with garlic, holy water, nor with crucifixes. Only they can eliminate forgetting them, not calling, not to cling to exist either. This, alone, to stop the vampire die within us.
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