The vampire has always been an evil monster, but in recent pop culture he has transformed into a new character. Despite occasionally resorting back to his evil ways, he has humanity. The modern vampire, unlike, undead from the past, is not created as a one-dimensional character with the single desire of killing and drinking human’s blood. He is marketed to the audience as a half-man, half-monster who is capable of evil but chooses to live amongst and have relationships with the living. The moral compass of the new breed of vampire, their relationships with humans and super-human attractiveness objectifies the vampire as a sex symbol. There is an evolution of the vampire to the sex symbol and the three characters; Count Orlok, Spike and Edward Cullen mark the evolutionary change though the eras of vampirism.
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