Selene Patriarchy

The Underworld’s Selene acts as the ultimate illustration of the fully empowered female vampire. Selene is the first vampire to be a heroine and she is proud of her condition. This character analysis is going to examine the emasculation of the vampire’s traditional monster nature alongside its accompanying evolution into heroism, how a female vampire’s metamorphoses from lasciviousness to empowerment by her familial bond as the patriarchy of her coven, Selene is a strong warrior for the Death Dealers. Selene is a not any regular vampire in the Underworld movie series. She sets the standard for female vampires by blatantly disregarding the laws of her kind and while most female vampires appear as canvases for sexual fantasy, Selene disregards the attempts made to sexualize her by wearing her full body, black, leather tactical suit although it hugs her skin and it is important to note that Selene’s body is covered from the neck down and that she carries her guns always. In the movie, Kraven tells Erika to try to convince Selene to dress in a black, lacy dress that Kraven picked out for her that just happens to be very revealing. Kraven, which is the very person that she avoids at all costs is an egotist that is so wrapped up in
In doing so, Selene frees herself from the patriarchal bonds of her coven. Selene said “For six centuries, I was a loyal soldier of the Vampire clan, but I was betrayed. The war was not as it had seemed. In one night, the lies that had united our kind had been exposed.” Selene finds out that the necklace that Lucian carried was Sonja’s along with a part that was kept in Viktors chest was part of the dungeon lock system that kept William from getting