Semiotic Study of Vampires and Vampires Lore - 1678 Words

MICA | Semiotic Study of Vampires and Vampire Lore | Individual Assignment for Semiotics | | | | Submitted by: Payel Basu Roll No: 113B A semiotic study of vampires and vampire lore, with an eye on the different cultural implications that arise through the ages. | ------------------------------------------------- A semiotic study of vampires and vampire lore. The field of semiotics exists because of the realization that society has a desire to create and produce signs because it serves as an important aspect and purpose to life. We are capable of performing semiosis and representation to demonstrate the knowledge in which we come to understand the world, and conversely, it is through the same process that the†¦show more content†¦The modern day vampire stories are mostly all converted to love stories, and it is love in the end that makes the wheels turn. John S. Bak, in his essay ‘Post/modern Dracula: from Victorian themes to postmodern praxis’ says. â€Å"Coppola inverts Stoker’s horror story and turns it into a love story, in order to establish the central theme that universal love, not hate is what will ultimately save humanity from evil.† Another interesting angle to using the vampire narrative as a tool in Christian hegemony is that ‘holy’ ground is never the deterrent to the vampire. It is always holy ‘Christian’ ground. Religious artefacts don’t prove fatal to the vampire, ‘Christian’ religious artefacts do. The idea that all religions are equal, and other religions may also play a deterrent role never comes up. This, despite the fact that modern day vampire narratives are exploring the realms of vampire history, and have traced vampiric lineage all the way to Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs. However, the Christian undercurrents remain. The image of a vampire unable to enter a mosque, or a temple or a synagogue are yet to be seen, even though the concepts of vampires have existed for millennia with demonic entities considered the precursor to the modern vampire seen in ancient cultures ranging from Mesopotamians, Romans, Ancient Greeks and Hebrews. However, as time progressed, vampires and the connotationsShow MoreRelatedSeminar: Literary Theory Applied to H.P. Lovecraft-Notably â€Å"the Beast in the Cave†6821 Words   |  28 Pagesmagazines (Jones). It was these respectably diligent efforts that helped metamorph the strange and mythological universe Lovecraft had created in his fiction into a subculture mythos in art and literature. Today, Lovecraft is a cottage industry of occult lore and mysticism. Because of a reoccurring theme of insanity in both the personal life of the author and in his stories any attempt to analyze and understand Lovecraft you first need to understand his writing; to this purpose, I begin my research with