Dracula

In Mary Shelley's 1818 text of Frankenstein there are 191 pages of the actual novel split into 3 volumes and then 60 pages split into Appendix's A, B and C.

He gets a stake in the heart and dies for the last time and is never seen again.

This is the most popular method: First you have to drive a stake through his heart. Then he has to be beheaded. After all, his mouth has to be filled with garlic.

Sunlight is not useful in this case: Count Dracula can go through the streets of London by day (he does so in the book).

In Van Helsing, Count Dracula was played by Richard Roxburgh.

It is a timeless romantic classic about the struggle of good and evil, and in the end, love conquers all. Think Romeo and Juliette with fangs ( and without Leonardo DiCaprio). The novel is a literary masterpiece so brilliantly written that generation after generation have fallen in love with its dark and seductive appeal. Countless theater and film adaptions have immortalized its characters, as well as set them as the archetypes for the horror genera.

In the novel, Dracula was killed when he was tracked by Van Helsing and his troupe and stabbed in the heart with Arthur Holmwood's bowie knife in his final box of earth. His head was then chopped off cleanly with a knife, ridding Dracula's soul of the earth forevermore.

Karloff appeared in a number of Dracula and vampire themed movies, but never in the roll of Van Helsing.

Why would an actor of Boris' talent play a minor character??????

Dracula lived in Romania and traveled to England

Renfield parallels with the wolf as Renfield feels the need to consume other lives in order to gain energy as a wolf does. Refield merely signifies a predator and as he escapes from the mental asylum to see his "master" it is similar to a wolf who goes out at night.

There is no historical evidence to support the claim of vampirism being a condition of Vlad Tepes. However, as another of his names was "Vlad Dracula" -meaning son of Dragon after his father Vlad II Dracul- it is believed that he inspired the name of Bram Stoker's Count. Also, he did commonly use the impalement method used to kill the vampires of Stoker's universe.

Bela Lugosi was the actor who played Dracula in the silent movie Dracula

The above answer is incorrect: Max Schreck played Dracula, originally billed as "Orlock," in the silent film "Nosferatu." Lugosi's Dracula certainly spoke.

The Count Dracula Society was founded in 1962. The Count Dracula Society was founded in 1962.

Life was centered around religion in Stoker's day. Crosses were another way to show that Dracula and the Un-Dead were hellish creatures, unholy and demonic.

Dracula and Dracula the book by Bram Stoker has its roots from medieval Romania. The name "Dracula" originated from King Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad the Impaler), ruler of the kingdom of Wallachia, Romania.

I think Jonathan would probably be Van Heilsing's son. (by the way people who don't know - van Heilsing is a vampire slayer)

Jonathan Harker is about to marry Mina. He is one of the principle characters in the book. Dracula gave him to his three brides for their dinner. They were supposed to kill him, but he got away, married Mina, and returned to England.

The man moved about a great deal in his life, having relations with Wallachia, Moldavia, Transyvania, Hungary, and the Ottoman Turks. It is to Wallachia however that he was installed as ruler (three times) and is most historically linked.

gerran howell

Not at all. 57Matt57 here Some say that Count Dracula is based on the historic Vlad the Impaler, I personally think he is, there are many similarities, besides of course the name. Vlad Dracula used to impale his enemies on wooden stakes, this is very similar to the way vampires are killed, wooden stake to the heart.

He sees the Count scale down the wall, like a lizard.

Yes, he was. He even led a Christian order of knights, the "Order of the Dragon". Vlad Dracula also defended Christian religion by fighting against Muslim armies.

Even Count Dracula (Bram Stoker was inspired by Vlad Dracula) is a Christian. The book does not say this, but he is afraid of crucifixes. There is a Jewish vampire in the movie "Dance of the Vampires", and he is not afraid in them. That is why you can see that Dracula must be a Christian.

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.

To create something living from non-living things. This was originally known as the Promethean myth as Prometheus created man from clay. However when the novel Frankenstein came along it usurped the older terminology. The novel Frankenstein is sub-titled 'The modern Prometheus'.