The argument that all creatures or people, good or bad, have some amount of humanity left in them links to the real world because no matter how evil a person is they will still have some source of humanity left. It is basically the situation that masks their humanity and makes it seem as if they are soulless, just like the monsters in Buffy.
The monster, the Judge, in Buffy is the only one who can take a creature or person’s humanity away from them, which then results in them turning into dust. This action is a metaphor for the authority positions and power because the act of the Judge taking away their humanity and killing them is representing how authority positions and power can cause people to act inhumane, which therefore kills a small or large part of their soul. The vampires, such as Drusilla and Spike, are representations of the people who are under the rule of the higher up authority figures. They represent people who lack most of their humanity and the people that dehumanize or act unjustly towards other humans. Most importantly, Drusilla and Spike represent real world military officers and how they lack humanity during the times when they are in combat and imprisoning terrorists. The vampires are the link to the real world and make the show seem more real. Sometimes the show seems more real than reality itself and the vampires and other monsters seem even more real. These vampires do a good job in representing the inhumane people in the world, some are military officers others are criminals.
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