I will have my blood low fat and no carbs, please. Gothic images and themes include castles, coffins, monsters, and strange lands and form the background to the classic Gothic novel. The Gothic element is synonymous with horror and strangeness – a feeling rather than a form, in which transgression is the central theme (Wisker 7). The vampire is a figure who transgresses the limits of society to constitute the central dynamic of the Gothic. “We like to see the limit transgressed – it horrifies us and reinforces our sense of limits and normality” (Halberstam 13). Assuming that Bram Stoker's Dracula defines the vampire archetype, it is clear that modern vampires have demonstrated a diminution of Gothic horror despite similarities in Gothic imagery. The Count is the reference of the vampire archetype as a monstrous Other who “promises himself to be the locus of corruption” (Anolik and Howard 1). Dracula is associated with the disruption and transgression of accepted boundaries – a monstrosity of great evil that serves to ensure the existence of good (Punter and Byron 231). The “otherness” that Dracula possesses reinforces our own norms and beliefs through his transgression which separates him from society and the polarity with Western norms and ideals makes him an effective tool for extorting revulsion and horror. Stoker's novel uses the Gothic tradition, providing "the primary incarnations and evocations of cultural anxieties" from which the very Gothic mood and horror are produced, establishing the baseline used to distinguish modern vampires, in the framework of vampire mythology within the Gothic (Botting AftergothicDifferences Between Dracula and Twilight The similarities between the two novels lie notably in the Gothic imagery and theme, but the Gothic atmosphere predominates in Dracula compared to Twilight and it is this difference which makes Twilight not belong to the vampire canon. Horror is the element that Dracula has unlike Edward, and it is crucial in the interaction between transgression and the limit. What makes Dracula monstrous and Edward not? His vampire state is clearly separated from the human form, establishing his frightening appearance. His fangs, hands, and sharp nails are horrifying up close. He is not a corpse at first glance, mysteriously resisting the decadence of death. Dr. Seward comments: “She was, if possible, more radiant than ever; and I couldn’t believe she was dead” about Lucy’s vampire state (Stoker 200). At several points in the novel, Dracula resembles life, “simply engorged with blood; he lay like a leech, exhausted by his satiety” (Stoker 52). Monstrous life in death is an “essential gift of Stoker’s vampires to the 20th century; a reminder, not of the horror of death, but of the innate horror of vitality” ( Auerbach 95). Edward is the opposite in appearance to Dracula. The venom from the bite that turns humans into vampires freezes their appearance forever. Edward was bitten at 17 and was never called horrible.