Why did Dracula kil?

Answer 1

I read this book back in 1965 while travelling each day on a tube train between Tooting Bec and Highgate in London and I wondered about this myself, after all Dracula wasn't that prolific when it comes to biting people and turning them into the un- dead.

The 19th century had begun with only the wealthy few able to read and write and that by candle light. It had ended with universal education, the gas light and electricity. The fears and beliefs generated by ignorance had been banished at the flick of a switch. Where once being afraid of the dark was an accepted part of life people could now look upon what they had once feared and see it as entertainment. But there was still the belief that good had to be seen to triumph over evil, a belief that would not die in the movies until the last quarter of the 20th century, and that is why Dracula had to die.