Transylvania is territory in central Romania; in fact, it is the largest territory in the country. ... Romania has strong Hungarian and German influences as well. ... Today, millions of people journey to Romania, and many of them go on tours of the castles in the area. ... Vlad Tepes was born in the town of Sighisoara in Transylvania, now known as northern Romania, in 1431 and later came to rule the area of southern Romania known as Wallachia. The word "tepes" in Romanian means "impaler", and Vlad was so named because of his fondness for impalement as a means of punishing his enemies. ...

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What was Bram Stoker trying to portray when he wrote Dracula? As a gothic novel, Dracula reveals a fixation not just on horror but also with folk legend. The reality of the book f the book is of great magnitude since Stoker told the story through a method consisting primarily of journal entries. ...

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Dracula, a Story of the Undead By Bram Stoker Bram Stoker an Irish Author Abraham 'Bram' Stoker was born in Marino Crescent in Clontarf, Dublin, on November 8th in 1847, had a very troubled childhood, riddled with illness and suffering from the late development of speech until the age of 8,...

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He was nicknamed Dracula because of the hundreds of savage murders he committed in the 1400's covering the areas of Romania and Trannsylvania. "Dracula in Romanian means son of the devil or son of a dragon" ("Vampire" 268). ...

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The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture, though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction. As Minghui said, '...Gothic authors themselves questioned the relevance of religion, foregrounded issues on scientific antitheism by presenting Christianity in a dubious light, present, but altogether powerless...'2 A late Romantic example of this exists in the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an ar...

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