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Count Dracula is a major character and antagonist within Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. One of the most well-known literary villains, Count Dracula is believed to have been based on two real people - the Wallachian Voivoide/mass murderer Vlad III (or Vlad the Impaler), and the actor Henry Irving.
Character[]
A centuries-old vampire native to Transylvania, Count Dracula can be seen as a metaphor for the sin of vice. Within Dracula, the Count is described as an old man with a mustache. Dracula is an extremely cruel soul - seeing people as merely meal tickets and servants. He is extremely proud and cunning - with an immense store of knowledge within his brain.
Due to his vampiric status, Dracula has immense strength, the ability to shape-shift, and (seemingly) the ability to teleport (though only if given an invitation to a location).
History[]
(PLACEHOLDER)
Vlad the Impaler[]
Vlad the Impaler was a Voivode of Wallachia, and lived in what is now Romania, a country in Eastern Europe. But, he was not always known as plainly "the Impaler," and his entire name (in English) was Vlad III Dracula, or Vlad III Drăculea in Romanian. Many just shortened that to Vlad lll, and then decided that Vlad the Impaler was more accurate.
The only thing that Vlad and Count Dracula have in common is that they both have the name "Dracula," which the author, Bram Stoker, mistakenly translated.
Henry Irving[]
(PLACEHOLDER)