Dracula and The Lost Boys

Family 2
The idea of becoming a vampire has been embraced as a deviant alternative to fulfill a sense of youth because it offers eternal life and rebellion. Vampires target humans in order to suck their blood and provide nourishment for themselves. Most often families are targeted and destroyed, because the vampires are preoccupied by the idea of creating their own families. Vampires do not create families in the traditional sense, they follow no norms. Although vampires may have what they refer to as a family unit, there is no marriage involved. Marriage means monogamy and vampires are not monogamous, rather they are quite sexual, with both men and women. For this reason, vampires pose many threats to the traditional families.
In Stoker’s Dracula, the threats Dracula poses are over Jonathan, Mina, and Lucy. Although Jonathan is engaged, in a committed relationship, he is tempted by three women. Had the women been able to carry out their plan of seduction,...