Literary and the Real Dracula
...ernal life. Similar to Stoker’s character, Vlad Dracula also had Renfield’s Syndrome. He drank blood to show his ultimate power over his people. His reasons ranged from ancient cultures beliefs in the power of immortality through blood, especially the blood of an enemy. Dracula often had dinner while he watched the executions he had ordered, and included blood of the executed in his meals. Second, Renfield’s character possessed the ability to terrorize the living by having the power to prey upon others against their will. Nobody could withstand being one of his victims. For instance, in the book after choosing and sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, and does the same. He preyed upon others for substance and for his lifestyle, so nobody was safe, and no precautions could be done to stop him. The real Prince Dracula also kept his people terrorized as well, by punishing for any crime as death, and drinking blood of his enemy. He was such vicious ruler that the very mention of the name placed fear and dread into everybody’s heat and mind. Vlad Dracula’s’ legacy was set in stone as a brilliant in generating fear to produce discipline. Could you imagine being a foot soldier of the Turkish Army marching into Romania and once there, seeing the burned and dismembered corpses of the men who fought before you? Each one impaled on long polls, stretched across miles and miles of enemy real estate. Most importantly, Stoker said in his novel that Dracula was able to return from the dead as a vampire. The ability Stoker mentions certainly was a trait of the real Prince Dracula, Vlad Dracula. And as for returning from the dead in the historical event...