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4.《暮光之城》颠覆传统吸血鬼

Of course you know the whole Twilight Saga is our grandchildren or great-grandchildren

at this point of Bram Stoker's Dracula

And they are purely literally creations so there's less freedom to move around it

and that's where Stephenie Meyer gets creating a whole folk law for the werewolves

and notice how she breaks with the tradition of the vampires not being able to come out during the day

and in Twilight Saga they are totally functioning they avoid the bright sunlight

because then their skin glints with diamonds and that makes them incredibly beautiful

and her particular clan of vampires also has forgone human blood

and they feed on animals in the forest usually rogue animals

So they are do-good-ters which is totally in contradiction to the folkloric vampires

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