The vampire as a theme. What does the vampire embody?

The vampire primarily embodies hunger, passion, and sensuality. These are primal emotions and natural urges that drive man to create immoral acts. This is the main reason why blood is the one thing that vampires desire most. Blood is what keeps us alive. Blood is what saves us. In the Judeo-Christian belief, the blood of Christ is the only thing that redeems man. From this perspective, there must be power in it. So, it is obvious why vampires would crave it. Our blood becomes their salvation. Our blood sustains them. They hunger for us because, in a sense, we are their salvation.

Passion and sensuality are also at the core of understanding the vampire. Vampires are sexual creatures. They use their physical charm to ensnare their victims (who are often female and innocent/virginal). And sex is all about the hunt. All throughout Western history, men have tried to bed virgins. In the act of doing so, a little blood must be shed. This is a vampiric action. These men, like vampires, had a taste for virgin blood. Romance novels are filled with these types of encounters. Because of this, the image of the vampire has become romanticized. He is the dark figure in the night who comes to steal away some young maiden's virginity.

Vampires embody hunger, passion, and sensuality. They are sexual creatures who rarely commit the act of sex. Their fangs are their sex organs. And their only desire is to penetrate our veins and drink deep our life energy.

You should check out The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.

Anne Rice novels seem to have the running theme that vampires swap their souls for immortality and can never really connect again with their fellow man or God.

In Bram Stoker's, the theme would be similar - vampires are immortal but dead to their fellow man and evil because immortality is a state not natural to mankind. One could almost say these themes harken back to the Tower of Babel story -- trying to become too much like God is evil and will be punished.

look how Stoker and Anne Rice differ in their depictions of vampires. There are also many aspects of Vampire lore which could be gone into. Did Stoker's version of what a vampire is form what we think of vampires today? you could bring in movies (underworld)

you could write a vampire love story, you know, like the vampire falls in love with the mortal girl and does every thing in his power to save and protect her? Have you read the Stephenie meyer books, Twilight and NewMoon? They are vampire love stories, they are super good.

what a true vampire is opposed to the fictional fanatsy vampires..... (look up bathing in blood 1rst vampire)

Sexuality and taboos.

immortality that feeds off death