Is Dracula Exist Or Not?

1 Kings 14:9, “You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.” explores the theme of evil in more detail. It hints that people or demons who proudly sin and do not repent, can be consumed by evil and not return. Dracula’s character is crafted this way so that no one fears him until they are met with his wrath.

The novel Motorcycles and Sweetgrass written by Drew Hayden Taylor revolves within Otter Lake, an Anishnawbe community. A mysterious blonde, white man arrives riding on a motorcycle. This man is known as John, a man with a numerous amounts of surnames. John is seen around the neighborhood and found sharing a passionate kiss with Lillian, the grandmother of a boy named Virgil. The chief of this community, Maggie is head over heels for this white man; however Maggie’s son Virgil does not approve of John constantly being around his mother and has a bad feeling about this man.

Dracula was a Vampire who grew older but as he consumed blood, it made him look ten times younger than his actual age. Dracula had a problem, if he did not drink blood he would become sick and he would grow older. This did not help him but it only hurt him and earned him more enemies. People began to realize his faults and go against him. There were many secrets that nobody knew about Vlad Dracula. He avenged his father by killing thousands of innocent

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

In the novel Dracula, Dracula is supposed to be a fictional character. A character who came out of a person’s dream or a nightmare. Dracula is a character who is technically dead and is most powerful once the sun has set. He lives only by drinking the blood of humans. In addition, he also kills them and transforms them into a vampire. He is on a mission to conquer England by making people into vampires. In the film version of Dracula, Dracula says to Mina “I have crossed oceans of time to find you” (Coppola). In the movie, Dracula becomes a vampire after his wife commits suicide by jumping into a river. As a result he was heartbroken. He nails his sword on the holy cross and asks God to live only on blood. After centuries he comes back to life after he is dead to find his

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

Researching ancient myths, fairy tales, and other fictional characters is a rabbit hole that gets all the more complicated the farther you go. There are constantly new discoveries, different viewpoints, and biases. The man known as Vlad the Impaler, more commonly referred to as Dracula, is a perfect example of this. The goal of this paper is to bring to light the many misconceptions about the man behind the myth as well as give some insight into where the whole story originated.

Dracula, constructed as the “other” is at odds with the “self” or the typical British characters, which is the reason why he must be annihilated. He represents the “other” in two senses; firstly based on his location and secondly based on his non-humane attributes. The space that Dracula occupies,

Tepes and his brother were sent to the Turkish Sultan as ‘official’ hostages a year later, for education in change for loyalty to the Sultan. During a war with Hungary in 1447, Vlad II Dracul (Dracula’s father) and Tepes’s eldest brother were killed by Hungarian assassins. Wallachia was ruled by Hungary, and the Turks released and gave Tepes an army in order to capture Wallachia. He held the throne for two months before being forced to run away. He then abandoned Turkish ties and appealed to Hungary to become Prince of Wallachia. His following rule, though bloody, brought Romania together like never before. He was made famous by his rule as well since his name “Vlad the Impaler” came during this rule. He got this name from his use of torture as punishment; his ‘favorite’ act being using a large wooden stake to impale criminals from the groin to the mouth. Soon war began again with Turkey and Hungary, and he was removed and regained the throne a third time before he was killed in a war with the Turks, his head sent to the sultan as proof of his death.

Researching was never usually my strong suit, especially when I had no idea about what topic to pursue. As I thought about the various events and people I had read about throughout my life, I didn’t have much interest in any of them. Just when I was about to give up and browse through a list of research topics online, one name flashed into my mind. Dracula. I had always loved reading and watching the tales of the fictitious count and I knew the inspiration of the bloodthirsty Dracula was a Romanian prince named Vlad.

Dracula may be blood-curdling but he is not that frightening, to say the least. Just as Jonathan Harker (a lawyer) entered the barren castle in the outskirts of Transylvania, a strange but unique looking man answered the door, and here are Harker’s thoughts: “Within stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere” (Stoker 20). As one can see, Stoker really is trying to emphasize his notion of vampire qualities. Once again, Jonathan recollects his thoughts saying:

Dracula has a liking of controlling animal like creatures of the wild to absorb his power. This is where he gets the inhuman-like personality that sets him completely apart from the other characters in the story. So to me his figure is definitely quite odd, but it shows his power that he has over everyone. Even though his power is portrayed in a different way than most normal people, he instills a fear in other people from the fact of suck their blood to destroy them and keep him on top. He is considered to of his food chain in the entire novel. Dracula’s character represents everything but well. If you had never read the novel, but heard someone tell you about him, you can figure out that he can be many characteristics such as psychotic, evil, selfish, careless, etc. Yet he may hold accountable of all these characteristics, people are afraid to change his ways because he is only receiving power by destroying others. He doesn’t give a care about anyone but himself and even though it’s the wrong way to handle situations it’s working to an advantage for him because in the end he is always going to come out on top. It’s almost like a win-win situation with him.

In the 1897 novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, a vampire named Count Dracula is brought about and brung into the “real world”. Many stories, books, movies, and games have developed from this novel. In the novel, Dracula has a lot of myths attached to him. These myths are what make him a vampire, and so when other people come up with these new stories or books or movies, they also implement myths into their characters to give them life as a vampire. In every story, most of the characters are considered either “bad” and “evil” or “good” and “friendly”. These labels are based on the characters actions, thoughts (when possible), and personality traits. In Dracula, Count Dracula would primarily be classified as the antagonist and evil. As previously mentioned, this is based on the fact that he made evil decisions, and had very bad qualities about him. However, in Twilight, Edward is a much more difficult character to label. Him and the Count have many similarities, however they are also much different.

The characters in Dracula are very Gothic. Dracula is the most important antagonist in the novel. Dracula is a very if not the most interesting Gothic character ever created. He like all vampires casts no shadow and possesses no reflection. Dracula cannot die by the mere passing of time for he is

They come in the night, flying from their graves in the form of bats. If not stopped, they will nefariously kill the members of their own families, and then go on to take the lives of others. They are vampires –corpses that rise from their coffins in the middle of the night, seeking out living victims whose blood they drink to sustain their unnatural existence. The most famous of all vampires is Count Dracula, a fictional character made famous in books and movies. Dracula is portrayed as a tall,