Why has the representation of vampires has changed over the years?

Answer 1

that's a great question, but first, i should clarify my point of veiw. by 'representation' I'm assuming you mean the humans way of percieving vampires? Assuming I am correct, I'll continue... to the scientist, the vampire most likely started out as a diabetic, or a person with Diabetes. back then they had no treatment whatsoever for diabetes. All they could do was wait. The one who was inflicted with this desease started out feeling very faint. they would sleep in the daytime and stay awake througout the night. then, after a while, their blood sugar would start to get dangerously low. they started becoming bottomless pits, eating live chicken if they had to. The parents would soon become afraid of the child and lock them up. Due to the lack of blood sugar and sunlight, they would turn an unearthly ivory skintone. If this child somehow got free of their imprisonment, they would terrorize villages, eat all the fowl, or maybe settle for something a bit bigger. Hence started the vampire. I'm not saying this is what i believe, but it is a researched "fact" which almost always prove to be incorrect. The second version of vampires is the one of them being immortal, and needing blood to servive. this is where count Dracula in his Romanian castle came in. People were intruged by the myth of the vampire and started getting deeper. They created stories of immortal brutal blood drinkers whom seduced their prey easily. and so on and so forth. I believe the human eye percieves things differently throught generations because we get so in depth with them, we start to think of these killers of old as beautiful deadly creatures Hope this helped! :P