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Dracula: A Historical Figure

Riya Singh, M.A. and Abhishek Chandel, Asst. Professor


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Abstract

Bram Stoker gave breath to Count Dracula in his Gothic, connecting historical correlation to his creative approach. An account of mystery and realism imbibed within an epistolary novel that dates back to a specific historical context of fifteenth-century Romania. This paper focuses on the revelation of facts and fiction regarding how a prince was souled in the soulless Count, and how Stoker sew traits in common with differences as a medium of suspense thriller, developing a diary of a moving historical figure.

Keywords: Dracula, Historical, Superstition, Myth, Realism, Folklore, Vampire, Order of the Dragon, Voivode, Witch, Psychology, Facts, Fiction

Introduction

Dracula is a word of much contemplation ascending in the Goth environment as human foe, bloodthirsty, dark entity, immortal, sun fearing, supernatural, and evolving to many interpretations. Since the publishing of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), society imaged the mystical figure with such connotations and somehow studying with an eagle eye one finds out that the supernatural being is inspired by a historical warrior prince of Walachia, Vlad III or Vlad the Impaler. Vlad III Dracula or Vlad the Tepes (born 1431, Sighi?oara, Transylvania (now in Romania)—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania), the infamous bloodthirsty emperor quite resembling the thirst of Count but in a much different way. Referring thus, to the history and the aspect of the word, Romanian language says Dracula means “son of Dracul”, where Dracul further explains itself as the Devil (drac- devil, ul –the) evolved from Latin Draco meaning dragon. Satan of the undead, murderous in sentiment for survival coincides with the Wallachian prince who inflicted inhumane and sadist punishments on enemies and even on civilians. In this paper, we deal with two figures (Count Dracula and Vlad Dracula) coinciding each other in given aspects. We shall be holding onto the darkness of the Count who says “the blood is the life” and of the Emperor Vlad Dracula “eating bread dipped with the blood of sufferers". Throughout the years the vampire breed subsists in fears of people fanged with more superstition and myths which indirectly inspired Stoker in the creation of his work.

Beginning with the title of the novel “Dracula”, history reflects a figure of profound stature and horror, an enigma of mystery and a supreme sadist. In the fifteenth century, Romania was powered by a prince who inherited his sobriquet of Dracula from his father Vlad II Dracul, who received his infamous sign after joining a member of the Order of the Dragon (monarchical chivalric order for selected higher aristocracy and monarchs, founded in 1408 by the king of Hungary to save their sacred Catholic Church and defense against Ottoman Empire) which Vlad III later joined as a military commander.

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Riya Singh, M.A.
Department of English
Email: riyasingh.16072000@gmail.com
Chaudhary Bansi Lal University (CBLU), Bhiwani
Haryana 127021
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Abhishek Chandel
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Chaudhary Bansi Lal University (CBLU), Bhiwani
Haryana 127021
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