The Difference Between Modern Day Vampires And Traditional Vampires
Historic mansions, classic sports cars, perfect abs and skinny jeans are all words and phrases that can be associated with vampires. Well, modern day vampires, who are completely different from the traditional vampires who slept in coffins and could not walk in the sunlight. The way the modern day vampire is depicted in media has taken a huge bite out of society. Vampire culture in media has been on the steady rise, as if society had actually been compelled; a skill vampires of the television drama The Vampire Diaries are given that allows them to make humans obedient to their command. The Vampire Diaries centers on a town called Mystic Falls which is full of mystical creatures, and more importantly, Elena Gilbert, a teenager in love with two vampire brothers, Damon and Stefan Salvatore. The supernatural teen drama series The Vampire Diaries has greatly affected and influenced teens and society through specific dimensions of media effects including cognitive, affective, behavioral, unintended, and macro effects. Content is an important mediator between media and the effects it has on cognition. The content of The Vampire Diaries includes many supernatural beings, such as vampires, witches, werewolves, hybrids, and doppelgangers. Some of these creatures even have ‘superpowers’. Vampires can compel humans, witches can use magic to perform spells, and some supernatural characters are psychic and can get into others’ heads. With all of this being possible on a television show, the show encourages viewers to believe in the possibility of supernatural beings and superpowers. The mystical content of this show lures and entices teens to disregard what they already know and put their faith in the possibility of such supernatural occurrences happening to them. In addition to cognitively affecting society, the show also affects how one feels. Vampires were originally portrayed as monsters and still are. The vampires in The Vampire Diaries still survive on human blood and