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Tr. Spa-Eng. from a review in Shvoong
They are not a few who believe that Stoker based his character on a
figure with historical touches: Vlad Tepes, known as Vlad the Impaler,
or Dracula, as well as on legends of vampires of Eastern Europe. Vlad
Tepes lived in the 15th century and was the Prince of Wallachia (this,
along with Moldavia and Transylvania, joined the Kingdom of Romania). As
a
child, Tepes deployed a morbid fascination for the underground dungeons
of the castle of his father, who contained the Ottoman incursions but
not
without appealing to a disproportionate cruelty. Bram Stoker knew about
the existence of
Voivoda Dracula through reading a book that gathered information about
Wallachia and Moldova, in which the author announced: "Dracula, in the
native language of Wallachia, means Devil". The harmony of the name
liked to Stoker, who had baptized his vampire "conde Vampi", and which
soon became count Dracula. However, Stoker knew almost nothing about
the life of Tepes, and the novel Dracula does not keep any connections
with him.To detail the landscape of Romania Stoker compiled information
from
the novel The Land beyond the Forest (Emily Gerard, 1888) and the Report
on the Principalities of Wallachia. Based in Transylvania, she used to
publish notices requiring virgin young girls to enroll in her court,
then took their lives and sucked their blood. At the time she was unmasked, dozens
of bodies of women without a drop of blood were exhumed in the dungeons
of her castle.
The Sacrifice Lie: Somebody already conciously died
and was reborn for you in you
Stoker's parents, Abraham Stoker and the feminist
Charlotte
Mathilda Blake Thornely, had seven children and Stoker was the third of
them. He was auditor of the Trinity College Historical Society, and President of
the Philosophical Society of the University, where his first
publication was in Sensationalism in Fiction and Society. In 1876,
Stoker wrote a non-fictional book, The Duties of Clerks of Juries'
Sessions in Ireland, divulged in 1879, and performed works as theatre
critiic for the newspaper Dublin Evening Mail. In December 1876, he
published a
review favorable to Henry Irving's perfomance as Hamlet at the Theatre
Royal in Dublin. Irving read the review and invited Stoker to dinner at
the Shelbourne Hotel, where he was in condition of guest. He also wrote
stories, as The Crystal Cup in 1872 which was published by The Society
of London, after which he wrote The Chain of Destiny, work which was
published in four parts in The Shamrock. In 1878, Stoker married
Florence Balcombe, a woman of great and renowned beauty who had been
romantically in contact with Oscar Wilde. Stoker kept increasing his
income by
writing a number of novels, resulting in the most famous of the vampire
Dracula, for which he dedicated eight years investigating both the
European
tradition and the stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel
written as the sum of daily entries, telegrams, and letters from the
characters, as well as clippings from Whitby and London newspapers,
to relate events not directly witnessed by the characters of the
story.The novel begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly appointed English
Court secretary and his transfer by train and carriage from England to
the far-off castle of count Dracula, located in the mountains
adjacent to Transylvania and Moldova. The mission had the purpose of
legally attend Dracula for a convention controlled by the head of
Harker, Peter Hawkins, in Exeter, England. Although
initially Harper is seduced by the manners of Dracula, he does not take
much to
discover that he had become a prisoner in the castle. During his
captivity he begins to notice disturbing habits in Dracula's night life.
Harker barely escapes with life from the castle and when he feels on
safe he returns to England. Soon Dracula poses his attention on Harker's
fiancé, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her vivacious friend, Lucy
Westenra. Lucy is captivated by Dracula, and she soon began to act strangely. This was inferred by Professor Abraham Van Helsing, former master of
Dr. Seward, one of Lucy's suitors, who had come to him for
advice. Lucy and her mother ended up being attacked and killed by a
wolf. Van Helsing, knowing of the vampire condition, entrusts to Seward
and the remaining suitors, Lord Godalming and Morris, this
reality, and after searching for her, they finally end up killing Lucy.
Jonathan
Harker and Mina, now husband and wife, were added to the group, with the
purpose of finishing Dracula off. The latter, after learning that the
group had united against him, took revenge by visiting Mina on several
occasions. In
one of his visits, he fed Mina with his blood, whereupon after that he
ended up
creating a spiritual bond between them, and thus was able to control
her.
Bram Stoker died in 1912, was
cremated and his ashes were placed in an urn that was exhibited for a
long time in the crematorium Golders Green. The collection of short
stories The Guests of Dracula and Other Strange Stories was
divulged in
1914 by the widow of Stoker, Florence Stoker, publication that had a
good reception among the followers of the creator of the most
famous vampire.
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