These ideas are inspired by How To Read Literature Like A Professor.
1. Older character represents corrupt worn out values
2. Younger character represents a love for life, innocence and virginity
3. Older character strips away at that innocence, youth, vitality
4. Older character flourishes
5. Younger character is destroyed or dies
It was an eye opening revelation to realize there were vampire stories that had nothing to do with vampires. The book talks a lot about Daisy Miller being a classic vampire story, so I won't go over that one again. My favorite obvious one is The Snow Queen. One that is not so obvious is in Memoirs of a Geisha. Mother and actually the whole “system” are both vampires in the strictest classical sense. They get richer and more powerful as they use and sell the innocence of the girls. Another surprise vampire is Morgause in Mists of Avalon. She “feeds” on young men to keep herself strong, beautiful, and powerful.
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