TheImageofVampireinAmerica美国吸血鬼论文1500字.doc

The Image of Vampire in America Abstract The vampire is a kind of  HYPERLINK /wiki/Mythology \o Mythology mythical being who exists in the word by feeding on the blood from the living creatures, especially human beings, whose face is always pale and without body temperature. The vampire was not popular until the early 18th century; it started from Europe and soon was popular throughout the world, especially western countries like America. The article will show the vampire’s origin in Europe, why the image of vampire appears in America and how the vampire influents America from the angle of Hollywood movies. The Origin of the Vampire in Europe Many monsters in the western world might not be as popular as the vampire. Vampire has a high status in national myths and legends. It might not be most sensational but the most interesting one in the history of devils. At the end of the ancient Greek culture, it started an important school of philosophy——Neo-Platonism which is popular in 3-5 century AD. They think that there is still alive after death, consequently, those Christians believe that after the human bodies dead, the soul is still continue to exist to wait for the resurrection from Armageddon（末日审判，来自圣经）. According to the interpretation of the Christian, these people are the soul of suffering who does not belong to this life but also does not belong to the afterlife. They ran out of the hell, encroaching on the body like zombies. The combination of ghosts and taboo of blood, the vampire superstition appeared. And they are often thought to have some superpower because of the blood. Vampires are people who violate the religious doctrine and are the souls after death by sucking blood for superpower. Until the 14th century, the vampire superstition in Western Europe is fairly rare. But after the great plague of Europe continued to havoc nearly a century, the vampire superstition started to be out of hand from then on. In the face of such a high mortality rate of term