Vampire diaries

The show I chose to analyze is the supernatural drama, Vampire Diaries. The show is about a girl who is in love with two vampire brothers. It is set in a small town called Mystic Falls, Virginia. In Mystic Falls there are many secrets and many supernatural creatures, like vicious vampires, powerful witches and neurotic werewolves. The show revolves around Elena Gilbert. Elena is in love with the vampire Stefan Salvatore, but when Stefan’s vampire brother Damon moves into town she is caught in between a complicated love triangle. Elena has her two best friends Bonnie, a witch, and Caroline, a vampire, who help her in every situation. Elena and her brother, Jeremy live together in their parents’ house but their parents died before the series began and for a while their aunt was taking care of them but she was killed by a vampire. After their aunt died their history teacher also their aunt’s boyfriend takes care of them now. Their family isn’t a traditional family. Family doesn’t really influence the depiction of gender in the show since no one in the show has blood relatives, the friends usually look out for each other. There are four male main characters and four female main characters. The show is pretty much balanced. When the show introduces new characters, there is usually one to one ratio of girls to boys. The women of the show are modernly feminine and all the males are masculine. The gender theme is in between subtle and overt because during violent scenes the men are usually doing most of the fighting and the females are either the damsel in distress, an instigator to the whole fight or they aid as a distraction. The females in the show aren’t the ones physically fighting vampires and werewolves. In the show it gives off a feel that males are better fighting physically while females are better at verbal confrontation. The show itself is pretty contemporary because of the supernatural theme, but its gender theme is very traditional because the females are feminine and the males are very masculine.