Dracul Bram Stoker : Vlad The Impaler

After reading the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, we learn many things about the style of writing he used to capture the reader’s attention. We also learned about the main ideas Stoker brought in his writing, like how evil is all around us and how when humans join together, they could overcome the evil. In addition, he also describes the protagonist of the story and the way it behaves throughout the whole story and how it gets involved with all the characters. Last but not least, Stoker shows the reader what he used as a symbol to defeat evil, which helped developed the outcome of the novel.

The word for dragon in Romanian is "drac" and "ul" is the definitive article. Vlad III’s father thus came to be known as "Vlad Dracul," or "Vlad the dragon." In Romanian the ending "ulea" means "the son of". Under this interpretation, Vlad III thus became Vlad Dracula, or "the son of the dragon." (The word "drac" also means "devil" in Romanian. The sobriquet thus took on a double meaning for enemies of Vlad Tepes and his father.) Porter, Ray. “The Historical Dracula.” April 30, 1992 Eskimo North, Inc. 18 Dec. 2007. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

"Doing Justice to the complex character of Dracula was one our main goals. He's been portrayed as a monster or as a seducer, but knowing his biography made me think of him as a fallen angel, as Satan...

Dracula is a proud of his lineage. His blood is noble among gypies (criminals) but when placed in comparison to the elite of England, he is considered primitive, “…Dracula's criminality dominates over his noble blood: 'science' assimilates him to a lower type, associating him with animals and 'inferior' human groups” (McWhir 34).

Vlad III was born in 1431. His place of birth is unknown, but he was the 2nd of 4 sons the the ruler of Wallachia, Vlad II. At a young age Vlad and his brother Radu were taken as prisoners by the Ottoman Empire to gain their father's loyalty. During this time is Vlad’s life, he was tortured by the Ottomans. The Ottomans knew however, that Vlad could and would one day become leader of Wallachia, so they tutored him and his brother is science, arts, philosophy, swordsmanship, and horse riding. While he was with the empire, Vlad’s father, Vlad II, was most likely with a group of people called the Order of the Dragon. They were an elite group of people who protected Christain interest and would crusade against turks. It was said the Vlad’s father was a high ranking member of this group. Vlad II was ruler of Wallachia, like a king or leader of the people. However not all rulers hold power for ever, and he and Vlad’s older brother was tortured,blinded and killed both in 1447. This is said to be one of the key turning points in what made Vlad III so cruel and merciless when giving punishment.

Vlad Dracula was born in the winter of 1431 in Sighisoura,Transylvania. Vlad’s father who is Vlad II came from a family of princes from the state of Wallacia. In the same year Vlad III was born, his father traveled to Nuremberg, Germany and became a member of the Order of the Dragon. The Order of the Dragon was select group of European royalty appointed by the head of the Holy Roman Empire, Emperor Sigismund ,who held power over most of Western Europe. These men were dedicated to crusading against the Ottoman Turks, whose faith was Islam, and defending the Empire in the name of the Cross . Sigismund made Vlad II head of the Order and promised that he would be Prince of Wallacia when he returned . After this day, Vlad II became known as

The negative view of Vlad the Impaler has stemmed from two factors the view of the Impaler by western historians and western countries in general, and Bram Stoker's Dracula most western history books and historians tend to focus more on his deeds than his achievements and triumphs over the Turkish Ottoman Empire. For example according to a runaway brit article during the middle ages, there was a German minority living within the region of Transylvania known as the Transylvanian Saxons. These Germans were mainly merchants who under the reign of Vlad's father were allowed to trade freely in Wallachia as long as they paid a tax. According to a LiveScience article by Marc Lallanilla during the reign of the Impaler they stopped paying said tax.

Vlad III Draculea, also known as Vlad the Impaler was born in 1431 in modern day Romania, but back then known as Transylvania. He was born into a royal family under Prince Dracul II his fathers name means “devil” or “dragon”. Vlad III’s name was given to him by his father in honor of his own name, his father named him “Draculea”, which means “Son of the devil”. His father had been on earlier crusades with The Order of the Dragon, which was created by the Emperor Sigismund. The Order was created to defend the lands of Transylvania from potential Ottoman invaders and other threats. But in an attempt to balance the rival powers in the country, Vlad II decided to join the Ottoman invaders in the quest to invade Transylvania, Vlad II quickly became a rival of Emperor Sigismund and was kicked out of the Order. But the ottomans grew

Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Vlad III, Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, was born in late 1431, in the citadel of Sighisoara, Transylvania, the son of Vlad II or Dracul, a military governor, appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Vlad Dracul was also a knight in the Order of the Dragon, a secret fraternity created in 1387 by the Emperor, sworn to uphold Christianity and defend the empire against the Islamic Turks. Transylvania, along with Moldavia, and Wallachia, are now joined together as Romania. The name Dracul can be interpreted in two ways, the first translation from Romanian would be "Dragon", but it sometimes also means "Devil". Vlad was not called Tepes, which means ""spike" in Romanian, until after

Vlad was born in a noble family of Vlad Dracul II. Dracul meant the dragon order to defend Christian Europe. When they killed his father, he fought with his opponents to recuparar the seat of his father as the Sultan of voivadato of Wallachia. In 1448 won, but he was removed after two months, but fought for 8 years to get it. During his period in power was cruel and ruthless with his enemies. Their methods were to fit stakes his enemies and left them in the ground until to

“” this is the definition of folklore, and from these stories we get a multitude of myths and speculation of what happens to us when we die. They range from just disappearing into nothingness to becoming a higher being or going into a higher plain of existence. There are ideas however, of a life on this earth after we die for those who have committed crimes or have not been buried properly, we become the other, the supernatural or ultimately the undead. The most common of which is the vampire. One of the most known vampires from literature is Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) who is portrayed as a blood thirty, emotionless monster, which is the idea most often portrayed in folklore. This is a stark contrast from Anne Rice’s (1976) portal of a “” . The traditional idea of a monstrous creature who haunts the night is seen as an old idea and that people’s views of the supernatural are changing to a more humane, beautiful creature, not of a demon. This could be due to the popularity in teen and young adult fiction that happened in the late 1900’s. This change from traditional folklore is due to “” the way we perceive things are changing due to the influence of different cultures and ideas. Most of our ideas of vampires have changed from the traditional views to a beautiful human creature: seen in ‘Twilight’, ‘Vampire Knight’, ‘Vampire Academy’, and ‘Anita Blake’. These novels do have some elements of the monster portrayed in ‘Dracula’ and folklore but the main characters are the

Stoker used this historical basis to build Count Dracula, the now vampirised Vlad III Tepes. It would have been many years since Tepes’s rule over Wallachia, and he would have to hide in Transylvania discretely. As a few centuries passed, we can assume things were relatively tame for the Impaler, as he was no longer battling the Turks and impaling

At the beginning of this movie, it is explained how the character of Dracula became a vampire and it is said that he was a warrior called Draculea, from the Order of the Dragon, who fought to protect the Christian world. What’s more, in the scene where Dracula welcomes Jonathan Harker into his castle, there is a conversation about a picture hanging in a wall. Harker asks the Count who is the man on the picture and he tells him that it is an ancestor of him from the order of the Dragon. This reference to Vlad the Impaler it is not clear in Bram Stoker’s book and what’s more, the story of how Dracula became a vampire it is an invention of the movie

In everyday life, as in literature, there will always be an opposing force to evil. In the novel “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker, Professor Van Helsing acts as Dracula’s main antagonist. An antagonist is the character who acts against the main character, which increases the conflict of the story and intensifies the plot. Through the use of theme, characterization and specific events, the author shows readers how Dr. Van Helsing effectively fits the role of Dracula’s most threatening adversary.

Blood sucking, shapeshifting, killer… These are just some of the myths attached to Count Dracula. Dracula is a vampire, and as we all know, vampires consume blood. In the novel, the author Bram Stoker never mentions how Dracula became a vampire (every other vampire was created off of Dracula), however Van Helsing thinks that he made a deal with the Devil and traded his mortality for that of a cursed soul in return for something else. A lot of myths are attached to Dracula, which is