A vampire tale written in 1897 by English stage director and novelist Bram Stoker.
Johnathan Harker, a young real estate notary, discovers that Count Dracula of Transylvania, whom he visited on business, is a terrifying vampire. He travels to England and turns Harker's fiancée, Mina's friend Lucy, into a vampire through his venomous fangs, and then targets Mina herself.
Harker, working with Doctor Van Helsing, saves Mina, who was about to fall into Dracula's hands, and turns Count Dracula into a dead man.
Although there had been novels about vampires before Dracula, Stoker based his story on the folkloric vampire, depicting them as shadowless, able to transform into animals, and averse to the sun, garlic, and crucifixes. The text was written in the form of the letters and diaries of Mina and Lucy, and the testimony of a doctor named John Seward, making it more realistic and tense, and it gained a certain amount of popularity.
However, it was not until after Stoker's death that Dracula truly became a popular novel.
After Stoker's death, Dracula was adapted for the stage and made into a movie, and Dracula became synonymous with vampires in the public mind, as it is today.
There exists a model for this Dracula.
Vlad III was the 15th-century lord of Wallachia, located in what is now southern Romania. [For some reason, the game claims that he was Vlad IV, and not the third]
Vlad, who is said to have fought valiantly against the Turks, had two nicknames.
One was Tepes, and the other was Dracul.
Tepes means "impaler", and Dracul means "devil" or "dragon". [His second nickname was actually 'Dracula', meaning 'son of the Dragon', 'Dragon' was the nickname of his father]
As these nicknames suggest, Vlad III left his mark on history through his ruthlessness.
He showed no mercy to anyone who defied him, friend or foe, and tortured many people to death.
His most favorite method of torture was to impale people slowly and brutally by driving stakes through the streets.
On August 24, 1460, he is said to have massacred 30,000 people in a single day.
By modeling his Dracula on this real-life figure and skillfully incorporating folklore, Stoker's Dracula has made a name for himself, along with Vlad III, to this day.
No comments:
Post a Comment