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Dracula
Dracula or Count Dracula is a fictional character who is based on a vampire. He first appeared in Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" and the vampire fantasy began. His character has appeared in multiple films to date.
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Who created the story of Dracula?
The legend of the vampire ´Count Dracula´ originated in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel "Dracula", but he was inspired by a real person.
This real person was called Vlad III, Vlad Țepeș or Vlad Drăculea. He was born in 1431. It is most likely that he was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania, but it is also possible that he was born in Nuremberg because his father, Vlad II. Dracul, often went there at that time, where joined Sigismund II of Luxembourg's Order of the Dragon. It is possible that his pregnant wife, Princess Cneajna of Moldavia, accompanished him. Vlad III himself is said to have joined the order at the age of 5.
Being a member in this order, Vlad II got the name ´Dracul´, which is most likely to come from the Latin word ´drago´ (dragon). His son got the name
´Drăculea´, which means "son of the dragon".
Vlad II Dracul gave Vlad III and his brother Radu, his two youngest sons, to the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, who imprisoned them at Egrigöz fortress. These years had a huge influence on Vlad III's personality; for example, he made his first real experience with violence there.
In 1447, Vlad II Dracul was murdered.
Vlad Drăculea led many fights against the Ottoman Empire. He got the name ´Țepeș´, which means "impaler", because of his gruesome strategy: He impaled thousands of people. Most of them were enemies, but he also killed some of his own people this way.
Vlad III died at the end of 1476 during a fight against the Ottomans. It is most likely that he was beheaded by one of his own soldiers. He is said to be buried in Snagov, but scientists have not found his grave yet.
What are the themes in Dracula?
She [Violetta Valery] meets Alfredo Germont and they fall in love. His father [Giorgio Germont] totally disapproves as she is a courtesan. While she feels she cannot break off her relationship with Alfredo because she loves him so much, Giorgio pleads with her for the sake of his family to do so and she finally agrees. She is terminally ill with consumption and at the end his father, regretting what he has done, comes with a doctor. But it is all too late and Violetta dies in Alfredo's arms. The opera is based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas jr that was published in 1848.
What Dracula did for a living?
Dracula's wealth was from estates and investments. Thus, he didn't have to work. This freed up his time for enslaving beautiful girls, trapping investment bankers, and incurring the wrath of doctors.
It was one of the only areas in Europe that weren't "modernized" or urbanized yet. Very rural. Transylvannia also had lots of wolves, which of course are Dracula's pet things. Stoker studied Transylvannian lore. Dracula is actually based off of the old German myths about Vlad the Impaler... a bloody past the country has. Transylvannia is also very Christian, like the people at the station in Bistritz show.
How many people did Dracula kill?
20,000 men, women, and children and tortured people by ordering them to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs
What does Dracula wear around his neck?
When Dracula first appears in the novel by Bram Stoker, he is described as "...clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere."
He is also described by Jonathan Harker as wearing a cloak "...spreading out around him like great wings" when the Count is seen crawling down the wall of the castle.
How was Dracula eventually killed?
Count Dracula was eventually tracked down by all of the gang and was killed by Quincey Morris and Jonathan Harker. Quincey drove a stake though his heart, while Jonathan cut off Dracula's head simultaneously.
dracula the book was writen by bram stoker he wanted to write a book with vampires in it so he set in whitby where he spent a lot of time and then he found out about vlad tepes III the real dracula so he based the charcter on him.
Some people say that draculas are the rulers of the vampires and there are also others who say that when a dracula feed on a virgin, then a vampire is born there are too many sayings so it depends which do you believe in.
What did Count Dracula look like?
According to Bram Stoker's original novel, Dracula, the Count has pale fine skin, hooked nose, bright red lips and pointed teeth with black eyes. Of lean build and dressed in full black. He first has aristocratic looks with silver hair which becomes darker throughout the novel as he gets better blood supplies.
How are Whitby and Dracula linked?
Whitby is closely associated with Dracula because Bram Stoker who wrote the original novel spent time in the town while on holiday there during the summer of 1890. While he was there he was researching and writing a novel that would eventually become Dracula. The most important piece of information Stoker found while staying in Whitby was in a document he found in Whitby library, An Account of the Principalities of Wallacia and Moldavia by William Wilkinson. This document contained a reference to a 15th Century prince who had earned himself the nickname 'Dracula'. In a way, Whitby can be seen as Dracula's birth place. Not only did Stoker spend time in Whitby himself, he also set a significant part of Dracula in the town and used it as the place Dracula first steps ashore in England in the form of a big black dog which jumps from a ship called The Demeter which had run aground in Whitby. If you are interested in Dracula, you can take a trip to Whitby and see it all for yourself!
In the book it seems unlikely, although the three female vampires have been referred to as Dracula's "brides".
However, the the 1922 film of Dracula, the storyline was changed. Dracula had a wife Elizabeta, who killed herself after being informed wrongly that Dracula had been killed. Mina Harker is shown to be the reincarnation of Elizabeta in this adaptation.
Before he became evil, he was Christian. (Western Orthodox) After he most likely became a Satanist or some ancient devil worship.
This film was Dracula 2000. The premise of the film was that Count Dracula was actually Judas Iscariot, and had been cursed to walk the Earth for eternity as the undead for betraying Jesus, until he could be destroyed.
Who is the creator of Dracula?
Vampires come from Count Dracula, whilst I don't know much about him as in details, this is Vlad the Impalers father which furthered the story and gruesomeness of the family with his triumph but at the cost of genocide.
The count was known to drink the blood of his victims in victory and used a sharp impale device worn on the fingers, so claw like and that's all I really know and that the story derived from this era, so maybe look into this further.
Prince Vlad did drink blood. He would take his bread and dip it into the buckets of blood that he would put under the people he killed on the stakes. He was known for carrying out extremely cruel torture and executions.
Prince Vlad had a man over for dinner one night. Vlad saw that the man wasnt very pleased. Vlad asked him, "What is wrong?" The man looked at him and said i cant stand the smell of all of the rotting corpes. Prince Vlad smiled and said well if you cant stand the smell... Vlad had one of his men cut of the mans nose. When the man was dead Vlad had him put on a stake to hang there driping with blood like the others. Prince Vlad smiled at the man and said "Well you wont have to smell the corpes any more!" He laughed rigth after.
Early belief in vampires is thought to have come from people at the time not fully understanding the process of a body decomposing after death and so trying to rationalize this by creating the figure of the vampire to explain what they didn't understand.
Historically, the name "Dracul" comes from group of knights in old Romania called the Order of the Dragon. Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad III Ţepeş's (who is the person history calls Vlad the Impaler) was admitted to the order around 1431. The name Dracula means "Son of Dracul".
In modern Romanian, it means "son of the devil" but in Vlad's time it meant "son of the dragon."
Bram Stoker borrowed the name for his famous vampire novel, "Dracula," Stoker toured Romania while gathering material for his novel and heard of Vlad in his travels. However, he demoted his character to the rank of count. The real life Dracula was a prince.
It was believed in myth that Vampires drank the blood of the living to keep themselves going. As blood is seen as the energy of life iteself, it makes sense that the undead would seek it.
How were Vlad III and the fictional character Dracula by Bram Stoker different from each other?
Vlad Tepes The Impaler was a cruel leader whereas Bram Stoker's Dracula is a fictional character.
You can see a detailed comparison of the two at the related link below.
He was the ruler who fought against Otoman Empire in XV century.
Who did Dracula fall in love with?
well, if you're looking for the answer to the joke of the same question, it is "the girl necks door", which i don't find amusing at all.
the answer to the story-related question is that Dracula never truly had a lover, though he seemed to be attracted to two women named Mina and Lisa, drinking both their blood. Neither of the women shared his sentiments.
i encourage you to read Dracula by Bram Stoker.
-Bry S. f B.
