Outline
The purpose of this webpage is to explore the apparent and underlying religious themes present in HBO’s television series True Blood. In the released six seasons, religious images, connotations, implications, groups, and figures are displayed relatively frequent. The main premise of this series is that vampires have recently come to live among mortals in the real world, being the Southern states, and the tribulations that come with that.
One point I will champion is the presence of the Christian fundamentalist group, The Fellowship of the Sun. This group challenges the vampire community of America by coming together as God’s army, (literally) fighting his battle to protect humans from corruption and deviance. Specifically, this group’s mission, violence, messaging, and actions will be analyzed.
I will also be looking at the opening theme sequence of True Blood where the theme song mixes with contrasting images of religion and sin are presented. The overall theme presented in this sequence is renewal and forgiveness of sin. I will conduct analysis on how this theme is presented in the sequence, with a look at individual screenshots. Another point I will look at is the vampires’ fight for rights as a presence and community within society as a metaphor for that of the queer rights movement present in the ‘real world’. There are numerous instances where hate is projected upon the vampire community, that compares closely to incidences in the queer community.
In addition, I will also be analyzing the presence of spirits in True Blood. There are numerous characters that were once living but reappear later in the series as spirits, connecting with vampires and mortals. These characters include Sookie’s grandmother, Adele Stackhouse (Gran) and Eric Northman's vampire maker, Godric.
These religious themes are significant to the storyline of True Blood as they not only shape the many characters involved, give depth to the plot, but also subtly give importance to real world issues such as queer issues.
The purpose of this webpage is to explore the apparent and underlying religious themes present in HBO’s television series True Blood. In the released six seasons, religious images, connotations, implications, groups, and figures are displayed relatively frequent. The main premise of this series is that vampires have recently come to live among mortals in the real world, being the Southern states, and the tribulations that come with that.
One point I will champion is the presence of the Christian fundamentalist group, The Fellowship of the Sun. This group challenges the vampire community of America by coming together as God’s army, (literally) fighting his battle to protect humans from corruption and deviance. Specifically, this group’s mission, violence, messaging, and actions will be analyzed.
I will also be looking at the opening theme sequence of True Blood where the theme song mixes with contrasting images of religion and sin are presented. The overall theme presented in this sequence is renewal and forgiveness of sin. I will conduct analysis on how this theme is presented in the sequence, with a look at individual screenshots. Another point I will look at is the vampires’ fight for rights as a presence and community within society as a metaphor for that of the queer rights movement present in the ‘real world’. There are numerous instances where hate is projected upon the vampire community, that compares closely to incidences in the queer community.
In addition, I will also be analyzing the presence of spirits in True Blood. There are numerous characters that were once living but reappear later in the series as spirits, connecting with vampires and mortals. These characters include Sookie’s grandmother, Adele Stackhouse (Gran) and Eric Northman's vampire maker, Godric.
These religious themes are significant to the storyline of True Blood as they not only shape the many characters involved, give depth to the plot, but also subtly give importance to real world issues such as queer issues.