Hey guys!
This blog is about exploring why our society, namely teenagers are so obsessed with the undead. After researching a bit about this I want to know what people's thoughts are on whether this obsession is healthy or dangerous.
This blog is about exploring why our society, namely teenagers are so obsessed with the undead. After researching a bit about this I want to know what people's thoughts are on whether this obsession is healthy or dangerous.
This is a good topic to be investigated. I have never thought about this. I guess it is because we have too many dangerous behaviours and addictions. For example: lots of electronic games that our children are playing are about killing human and even torturous human. most of the popular serial cartoons that our children love involve fighting scenes in them. It seems like violent is pretty attractive to both children and adults. I wonder if that's healthy to our society. I look forward to seeing your discovery.
ReplyDeleteWhy are teenagers obsessed with the undead? I think its a result of them being teenagers, full stop. During adolescent you are so ‘spongy in the brain’ as I like to say, and the media know this. They have chosen to give the current teenage generation a great big doze of the undead. And the teenagers have flocked to it like moths to the flame. I'm sure if the media focussed on any one topic for long enough, the teenage crowd with follow.
ReplyDeleteYOu know I like your topic! As mentioned by both Lydia and Jen, obsessions are actually fascinating themselves. Why does it capture society's imagination so easily? Popularity definitely, but I think its something more than that. Its like a fashion fad of entertainment. When I was younger it was POkemon and Digimon and Harry Potter. Also, I think, series like True Blood, Vampire Diaries and the infamous Twilight Saga, the fascination becomes more 'real'. Aiding this is mass produced consumerism of course. I agree with Lydia, I want to read your findings!
ReplyDeleteI agree with all this. your topic is very intriging, makes you think why do you patronize or obsess about these "vampires". Since twilight hit the screens there has been soo many TV or short films about vampires, how they can have dramas in their "LIFE" like normal people. I just don't fully understand why soo many fall for this. It isn't even that great of a story and these soo called book writers. LOL they do not have talent they make one good book and they milk it for more money.. they end up writing a screen play instead binded as a book ready for hollywood to put on the screens.. hmm
ReplyDeleteHaha very good point. It certainly seems as if they are writing a screenplay disguised as a book. I am definitely not bagging all of these shows and books; I am a huge fan of fantasy and ncertainly many novels have gained my approval, but why the big obsession? Is it turning into something dangerous? I sthe danger the attraction?
ReplyDeleteTRUE!! Yeah more of the unknown, deep desires and forbidden stuff that lures teens and crowd followers to this type of non sense. ehhe
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting topic you've chosen, and I have to honestly say I didn't expect there to be a question of healthy/unhealthy. I merely didn't consider it, but you've got me thinking now. You bring up shows like True Blood and books like Twilight, but interest in vampires, and the undead, has always been a fixture in modern media, and even older media.
ReplyDeleteIt’s clear you’re discussing the current obsession, but I don’t think you should ignore the older obsessions, the Dracula and Van Helsing story most notably coming to mind, which was written in 1897, but there’s also those newer films such as Interview With A Vampire and Queen of the Damned that seemed only the precursor to the full on vampire craze.
You could attribute the sudden increase in it as a teenagers desire for danger, but it is worth considering human nature overall, as there’s no denying even some grown women, and men, have found themselves enamoured with all these tales of sparkling vampires and their pale skin. There is of course the fact that while Bram Stoker’s Dracula ended with Van Helsing defeating the undead Count, a victory for human nature in every sense, recent stories have seen scenarios such as vampires accepted into society, people openly desiring to become vampires, and etcetera.
In light of this, there is a definite turn to desiring danger rather than overcoming it, which was the theme in Dracula, but I would never imagine that it was limited merely to the teenage population or such abovementioned ‘crowd followers’. Not every vampire lover is a mindless drone helpless to the onslaught of modern media; some actually are honestly fascinated by it. Danger attracts people, why do you think so many bungee jumps off a bridge or go skydiving? Vampires are just a more mysterious source of danger, which has been an element to myth and legend for thousands of years.
i agree with dusty here, people are obsessed with things that have power over them, whether it is god, food, love, power, money, sex or in this case vampires. the human condition reallys on a person to be passionate about something otherwise we have nothing to live for. But vampires have always been at the forefront of the media as well as literature as the ideal of falling for a vampire goes hand in hand with the ideal of accepting death.
ReplyDeleteIn other cultures they have other ways of accepting death, eg the tiebetan book of the dead. western culture makes death and the great beyond an unspeakable taboo which means that young people need and outlet for this when they are discovering about it for the first time.
i dont think in my time on earth there hasnt been a romantic view of vampires (the lost boys, buffy, interview with a vampire, etc) but as with all things you have extremists whom will find an excuse to do the things they want to do. the person whom murdered and drained the old woman was one of these, they just wanted an excuse to do it and the focus allowed it.