Nowadays, there is still a desire to touch supernatural. Therefore, there is a tremendous variety of books, films or television series dealing with vampires, werewolves and other mystical entities. .
In the following chapters, one of these, Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Joseph Whedon, will be introduced. It is a successful and popular comic and television series of the 21st century and deals with various features that distinguish it from other stories of occult.
3. Victorian Age's Stereotypes and Standards.
The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's regency from 20th June, 1837 until 22nd™™ January, 1901, the date of her death. Culturally, there was a transition away from rationalism of the Georgian period to romanticism and mysticism with regard to religion, social values, and arts. Moreover, the common perception of the period is that the Victorians are "prudish, hypocritical, stuffy, [and] narrow-minded." Nevertheless, the following chapters will show that this perception is not universally accurate by supporting the arguments with quotations from "The most famous of all vampire stories" as it is described on the back cover of the Oxford edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Dracula is a mirror of its age (published in Victorian Era, 1897), its underlying themes of race, religion, science, superstition, and sexuality never far from the surface.".
3.1 Victorian Age's Men.
The man was protector, chief breadwinner and head of the household. Furthermore, he had almost complete control over his wife's body and their children belonged to him. The words spoken by the Prince's father in Alfred Tennysons's poem The Princess illustrate the man's role in the Victorian Era from a man's point of view. Obviously, men are described as the predominant sex.
"Man for the field and woman for the hearth;.
Man for the sword, and for the needle she;.
Man with the head, and woman with the heart;.
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