Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. ... This is perhaps a device influenced by societal ideals of the nineteenth century, the notion that communities are protected; evil will be displaced and makes the character of Dracula, himself a cold being, " he is brute, and more than brute: he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not - (304). ... The effect of such a device breaks down barriers between the human and imaginative worlds and the audience comes to identify with L...

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The Life of Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula, is a life shrouded in mystery and terror. Dracula was born in 1431 in Transylvania; a western Romanian principality bordered by the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, the Princess Cneajna, schooled young Vlad. His father, Vlad II was given the title of Dracul by King Sigismond of Hungary. The name Dracul means "dragon" and was awarded to his father for his valor in defending the Catholic Church against the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks during the fall of Constantinople. ...

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