Info on Dracula?

Question

OK im helping out on a school asembly ok and all the year 11s in our class (me) have to introduce characters to the audience, so with the info I give the audience has to decide weather the character is a saint or sinner ^-^

So im doing Dracula and I dunno what to look for.. does anyone know what i could say? or give me some points like where he lived and stuff like that =D

Im confused about this Impaler dude... is he dracula?? =S

Also can you send a good website please =3


Thanks alot!!!!!!! =D

does anyone have any info on the fictional character?? thanks

Answer 1

i don't dare reading the answers you already received - i bet they are full of s*it.

vlad tepes' (vlad the impaler's) uncle was a "knight of the dragon". the peasants of that time saw the flaming dragon on his blazon as a devil, a "drac", "dracul". anyway, he used to impale thieves and turks, sometime just for fun, as they say, but that was not uncommon in that age. so people feared him and the legends began - he liked blood etc.
remember, countess erzsébet báthory enjoyed her blood-baths a century later! anyway, it's not like anybody would try to read this until the end, but romanians kinda like vlad 'dracula' tepes, we see him as a great "voievod si domn" (lord), brave and just. there are countless 'good' legends about him too: thievery was practically extinct in his days, silver cups stood around wells deep in the forests and nobody dared to steal them, the greatest threat for europe was stopped on the right side of the danube etc.

vampires are bullshit, even tho there are still stories of present "moroi" as well as banishing rituals for them nowadays.

i advise you go with the 'nice guy' premise - the true one, even tho it might not be as 'kewl' as the dracula myth.

Answer 2

Bram Stoker was an Acting Manager for Sir Henry Irving, a very famous actor of the time. Dracula was intended as a stage vehicle for him eventually, but wasn't successful enough, right away, to motivate a stage adaptation. The adaptations came and eventually they made the book as successful as it is today and made stars out of people like Bella Lugosi, Christopher Lee and Frank Langella. He used several sources. We know about the historical Vlad Tsepes because people discuss it. There were also legends from various parts of eastern europe. What is often not discussed is Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood, a serial novel or Penny Dreadful as they were called which was published earlier in the century. It follows the undead evil adventures of a former Scottish Nobleman, Sir Francis Varney. It is a very lurid story, the 19th- Century equivalent of Robert E. Howard. And what Stoker did was take many of the motifs and vampiric powers, and put them into a more genteel entertainment. Sir Henry Irving was such a good impressario, some of us regret he never decided to play the Count. Even if no recordings had been made of his performance, that script would have been very interesting.

Answer 3

Count Dracula is a fictional character created by Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Some aspects of the character may have been inspired by the 15th century Wallachian Prince, Vlad III the Impaler.
Vlad III the Impaler also known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad Drăculea (December, 1431 – December 1476) was Prince of Wallachia, a former polity that is now part of Romania. His three reigns were in 1448, 1456–62, and 1476. In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's popular Dracula novel.

Answer 4

Vlad the impaler. He's referred to as Dracula because of the torture he put people through, when he was ruler.
He ruled for a total of 7 years on 3 different reigns (1448, 1456–62, and 1476).
He was king of Wallachia better known as Romania today.
This guy was crazy, he'd have people decapitated and put on a stake, while he was eating dinner. Bram Stoker was inspired by him and decided to use him in his novel. Although the castle used in the novel was suppose to be Vlad's castle, there is no proof, he stayed in that castle.
Also his death is a mystery. There are some theories, but nothing positive.

Answer 5

Dracula (a Romanian name meaning "son of the dragon") was also known as Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. He and his brother Radu (later known as Radu the Handsome) were abducted when they were children and had to live in the Turkish Sultan's prisons until they were grown. The reason for this was that their father, Vlad Dracul, refused to supply the Sultan with a yearly "tribute" of 500 young boys. Vlad Dracul's children were taken and he was murdered.

When Vlad got out of prison, he avenged his father's murder by killing all the people who had anything to do with it. He put their heads on stakes as a warning to others. He overthrew the government and reinstated himself as Prince Vlad.

The "impaler" part came about from his own reputation. As a form of punishment, he impaled people. His enemies or anyone who broke the smallest law, like stealing fruit from the market. However, his people loved him. To this day Romanian people admire him for his valor, bravery, and strength.

His wife Lydia could not handle the rumors that he sat among the impaled corpses and ate, dipping his bread into their blood. (This is how the vampire rumor got started.) But there is no historical proof of such actions. She believed the rumors and committed suicide.

Dracula always had problems with the church. In those days, the Church told the monarchies what to do pretty much. Some historians believe that Dracula was an atheist at heart, although for a while he was Orthodox and for a while he was Catholic. It seems that he changed his "beliefs" for what he needed from whichever one at the time. He died in battle with the Turks.

He had one son with his wife Lydia (a devout Catholic), also named Vlad, who ruled for only 2 years after his father's death. He was assassinated while attending church.

Answer 6

There is a little confusion here. Dracula comes from the Romanian word drac. In Romanian drac means devil. In that period there was an order called the order of the dragon, most of the people however associated the dragons with the devil. Vlad was a member of this order and he was called Vlad dracul. However Vlad dracul is not Vlad the impaler, but his father.

Answer 7

Comte Dracula lived in Transylvania, that is astride Hungary and Bulgaria He was a ruthless ruler who cared little for people's lives and for a yes or a no, would have the innocent or guilty impaled alive on a stake.

Known as the bloody Comte, soon stories started to emerge, first to scare children then to warn off people that the Comte drank blood of his victims, like a vampire bat does. From then on, imagination toke over and even after his death, people started to believe that to resurrect himself, the Comte turned into a vampire at night and went from house to house in search of fresh blood and virgin girls.

You will find on Wikipedia some more accurate details.

Answer 8

dracula was the name give to vlad 3 the impaler....he was mainly given the title of dracula because of his brutal methods of punishments which were mainly a much more exaggerated form of the ottoman way of punishments. THOUGH HE WAS CRUEL BUT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN EXCELLENT RULER AND ADMINISTRATOR.
some of the sites you can go to are:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula
www.vladtheimpaler.com
www.castleofspirits.com/vlad.html
www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/vlad/index_1.html
members.aol.com/johnfranc/drac05.htm

for some info related to myths and legends about vlad 3 the impaler u should read or go through their reviews for brief info-
DRACULA BY BRAM STROKER
THE HISTORIAN BY ELIZABETH KOSTOVA(A MUST READ-it based fully on vlad 3 and is filled with accurate historical facts as well as legends, myths about him.)

http://www.amazon.com/Historian-Elizabeth-Kostova/dp/0316011770-HAVE TO READ THE INTERVIEW WITH ELIZABETH KOSTOVA-she has given a lot of info nd there is also a review of the book

hope i was able to help you..and best of luck for your project
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Answer 9

Vlad the Impaler was considered the original dracula. In fact, some myths claim that he sold his soul to the Devil and became dracula. I would suggest a google or ask search for websites.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula
www.literature.org/authors/stoker-bram/dracula/

Answer 10

Vlad was a real dude...but the myth is a lot more exciting i think....in those countries if ur thought to be a vampire they dig up ur corpes and drive a wooden steak through the heart...also chop off ur dead head and stuff ur mouth full of garlic...garlic is thought to remind the vampire of the smell of death ...remind him hes dead...this still happens today...u can aslo bury a vampire at a cross road and when he digs him self out he will be confused by wich road to take he wil sit their till morning and the rising sun will kill him...........just incase u want to give ur audience some advice on how to deal with vamps

Answer 11

Yes Dracula the Impaler is the real Dracula.... because of him that's how all the vampire stories got started


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm