When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.
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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
There is a certain swagger with vampires.
Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.
Vampires are a genre now.
I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.
Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.