摘要：

本文通过对布兰姆•斯托克的小说《德库拉》、安妮•赖斯的“吸血鬼的圣经”《吸血鬼编年史》以及当代最受欢迎的《暮光之城》中各个时期吸血鬼角色由魔鬼到魅力化身的转换，甚至是倾向与救世的英雄形象，借对非现实世界的描述来表现现实世界的真实，从对吸血鬼形象的塑造中开挖人性深处的奥秘，折射当前社会现实以及人们对其的期望。

关键词：吸血鬼；哥特式小说；边缘人；魅力化身；英雄

Abstract：

This paper focuses on vampire’s role changing from a devil to the soul of charm, even a saver of this world. Based on three well-known literary works: Dracula written by Bram Stoke, the Bible of vampires The Vampire Chronicles written by Anne Rice and the most important Twilight written by Stephanie Meyer, this paper shows how the truth of realistic world is interpreted describing unrealistic world. The purpose is to explore the embodiment of the vampire image in the current society.

Key words: Vampire; Gothic fiction; marginal character; the soul of charm; hero

1.    Introduction
The vampire legend has been a popular topic in literary criticism in the western academic. Vampire is closely related to its time, reflecting the needs of the time. The vampire legend, especially the vampire literature, makes vampires different. The vampires are not just the bloodthirsty killers or monsters. They have turned into the soul of charm, even a hero who succeeds in annihilating the fiend and saving humanity because of love. An explicit separation exists between vampire and humans; “they” are not like “us”. The reader will identify with the human hero and feel completely detached from the monster that, along with its horrific characteristics, inhabite in remote and ghastly locations.
Contemporary authors place increasing emphasis on the positive aspects of the vampire’s eroticism and on his or her right to rebel against the stifling constraints of society.
Vampires have transformed from their late nineteenth-century signification as monstrous into largely sympathetic characters. This literary domestication has progressed to the point where now, at the end of the twentieth century, the vampire serves “not as the literal horror in some ‘night of the living dead’ reconstruction, but as a metaphor for various aspects of contemporary life”such as sexuality, power, alienation, illness, secularized evil, and the persistence of the fantasy in the supposedly rationalist age.