Nice to Eat You How to Read like a Professor Literature

2.  Not all feasting or eating in literature is friendly
(vampires feeding)
 Most antagonists or menaces in a story have
something to do with sex, most are handsome,
beautiful, and or sexy.
 We are all Vampires because we prey on people
who are less fortunate than us or people we do not
care about

3.  “Well, of course it has to do with sex. Evil has had to
do with sex since the serpent seduced Eve. What
was the upshot there? Body shame and
unwholesome lust, seduction, temptation, danger,
among other ills.”

4.  “… in A Christmas Carol (1843), who is really a
walking, clanking, moaning lesson in ethics for
Scrooge. In fact, Dickens’s ghosts are always up to
something besides scaring the audience. Or take
Dr. Jekyll’s other half. The hideous Edward Hyde
exists to demonstrate to readers that even a
respectable man has a dark side”

5.  “The essentials of the vampire story, as we
discussed earlier: an older figure representing
corrupt, outworn values; a young, preferably
virginal female; a stripping away of her youth,
energy, virtue; a continuance of the life force of
the old male; the death or destruction of the
young woman”

6.  “He (the vampire that is) wakes up… and says
something like “In order to remain undead, I must
steal the life force of someone whose fate matters
less to me than my own.” I’ve always supposed
that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same
sentence. My guess is that as long as people act
toward their fellows in exploitative and selfish ways,
the vampire will be with us.”

7.  Dracula
 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 A Christmas Carol
 Harry Potter (Voldemort)
 Jocks in Grease
 The Lost Boys