A popular point of discussion nowadays deals with vampires. Considering how amazingly popular they are, especially among females, it always comes back to some headier explanation when you consider the origins and myths behind such characters as Dracula, Frankenstein and a werewolf.Reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," you realize there's a grander theme that she was trying to get over to her audience about creation, human nature, blind hatred, science and much more. This is no different with the vampire or werewolf myth.
There's a rawness and darkness with all these characters. Mixing their abilities with their weaknesses and failures. How they're part human and part monster or animal. How their notion of right and wrong is skewed by some unstoppable force or affliction.
For the most part, at our worst, there's a little bit of Frankenstein's monster in all of us -- the rage, the confusion, the inability to cope with the humanness of it all.
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