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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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Where did the Dracula legend originate from?
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Was Dracula a gothic fiction novel?
Gothic literature is writing involving horror,the supernatural, ghosts, castles, darkness, good versus evil and suchlike.
Bram Stoker's Dracula involves horror (driving a stake through the heart of lucy), the supernatural (men turning into vampires), castles (in the forests of Transylvania), darkness (when Dracula went sucking blood), good versus evil (crosses, garlic, stakes,etc to kill vampires). In other words it has all the classic ingredients of a gothic horror story.
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Early belief in vampires has 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 it.
The name comes from Vlad the Impaler, prince of Wallachia (now part of Romania). In modern Romanian, it means "son of the devil" but in Vlad's time it meant "son of the dragon." Vlad is somewhat of a national hero in Romania for preventing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire but he was (and is) notorious for the cruelty of the punishments he meted out -- his favorite method being impalement.
Bram Stoker borrowed the name for his famous vampire novel, "Dracula," but there is no evidence that the historic Dracula ever drank blood. 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 Dracula was a prince.
He demoted his character to the rank of count because Vlad the Impaler's father was a count for the king of France. The king of France set up and order called the Order Of The Dragons. He sent the counts to rule all over the world. Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler's father was sent to Romania in a town called Wallachia, now Transylvania. Vlad Tepes was proud of the order. He put the sign of the order: a dragon on the Romanian flag. The Romanian people back then were very poor and uneducated. TheY thought the dragon was the Devil, or "Dracul" in Romanian. Later, Vlad Tepes's son was born, and the rest is explained in the top paragraph.
What influenced Bram Stoker to write Dracula?
There are many things that inspired Stoker:
- Stoker could not walk during the first seven years of his life. His mother often told him horror stories about a cholera epidemic she had witnessed as a child to entertain him at that time.
- It is also said that Stoker had a dream in which a young man slept on a sofa when suddenly a man in black clothes appeared, saying: "This man belongs to me!"
- Like many others, Stoker was interested in spiritualism, visited séances, was the owner of some tarot cards,...
- Around 1890, he met a Hungarian scientist called Arminius Vámbéry. This man is said to have inspired him for ´his´ book character Professor Abraham van Helsing.
- As a playwright and theatre critic, Stoker met Henry Irving, an actor who was very successful at that time. He inspired him for Count Dracula.
- Stoker read about Vlad III Draculea, a Walachian prince from 15th century, and decided to let him become the antagonist (Count Dracula) of his novel.
- Stoker loved to be on holiday in Whitby, England. In Whitby library, he read an old newspaper report about a ghost ship that had stranded there some years ago.
In Dracula by Bram Stoker does Lucy become a vampire?
Lucy is finally killed by her husband to be Arthur. He cuts off her head because she has been put under the curse of the vampire by Dracula so they are forced to destroy her in order to destroy all the evil which is Dracula.
Supposedly, Dracula sleeps in a coffin like most vampires. His, however, is supposed to be very comfortably padded with luxurious red silk.
What color are Dracula's eyes?
Nobody knows. Snicket didn't give a full description for Violet. We don't know anything about her eye color. On American and British illustrations she has got brown eyes. In the movie she had green eyes. On Russian illustrations she has got blue eyes.
How does van helsing feel about Lucy death in dracula?
Did you read Dracula at all. He gives her the blood of everyone around him. First is John Seward's blood, then Quincey, then Van Helsing's, then her fiance, Arthur. He also puts a necklace of garlic around her neck and along the window. However, Lucy's mother gets rid of them. He schedules watching shifts between himself and John.
What type of language was Dracula written in?
Bram stoker was british and he wrote Dracula so English.
Who made the first Dracula movie?
The silent film, Nosferatu (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau, was for all intents and purposes, Dracula, but Bram Stoker's widow had not given Murnau permission to use her husband's book for the film. Murnau went ahead and made the film but he changed the names of the characters. The Dracula type vampire, Count Orlock, was played by Max Schreck, wearing the most grotesque make-up and looking truly horrible.
However, Florence Stoker did take legal action against Murnau and won. All copies of the films were ordered to be destroyed, but luckily for us, this didn't happen and the film has survived.
(There is an interesting film called Shadow of The Vampire (2000) which is supposed to be about the making of the 1922 Nosferatu film, and stars John Malkovich, and Willem Defoe as Max Schreck. The unlikely premise is that Schreck was a real vampire.)
Then in 1931, Universal Pictures made Dracula, directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi.
Nosferatu was remade in 1979 by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski. Highly atmospheric.
How do a vampier move or hunt prey?
Well,
First they take a jump to the left,
then a step to the right,
they put their hands on their hips,
and draw their knees in tight.
The pelvic thrust was found to be counter-productive so that step was eliminated
then they do it all over again.
Where is young Dracula filmed?
If we're talking about the original Bram Stoker's Dracula, the locations go from England to Dracula's castle, located in a remote spot in the Carpathian Mountains, which borders Transylvania (Romania), Bukovina and Moldovia in eastern Europe.
Link between fictional Dracula and historical Dracula?
He lived there
Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history — Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) — who was a ruler of Wallachia (1456-1462). Transylvania is an area in Romania. Vlad died in battle, over the age of fifty. He will always be remembered. Many remember him as a cruel fiend. Some remember him as a proud and fierce defender of his homeland. He was, perhaps, both.
Why does the group decide that Mina must once more be privy to the plan to destroy dracula?
They do this twice. The first time they discover that not keeping her fully informed put her in danger. The second time she became psychically linked to the count after drinking his blood and actually had more information about him than they did.
How much money did Universal Pictures make from the 1931 Dracula movie?
Bram Stoker's Dracula grossed $215,862,692 worldwide.
What did dracula do that made him so notorious?
In 1456, three years after the Ottomans had conquered Constantinople, they threatened Hungary by besieging Belgrade. Hunyadi began a concerted counter-attack in Serbia: while he himself moved into Serbia and relieved the siege (before dying of the plague), Vlad led his own contingent into Wallachia, reconquered his native land and killed Vladislav II in hand to hand combat.
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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.
