Vlad The True Monster In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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There are specific behaviors and examples that define these people and their conditions. However, there are some very specific cases that can be sown to express the very oddity of the people themselves. For example, Vlad the Third, Prince of Wallachia, or as may like to refer to him, as “Dracula”, was the very inspiration for the 1897 novel by Bram Stoker, in which a vampire by the name of Dracula sneaks into people’s houses at night, while they are sleeping, and drains them of life by sucking their blood. This novel created mass emotion and fear of the fictional character, however, few understand that the real-life vampire, was a far worse creature than what was shown in the book. Vlad the Third, or Vlad the Impaler, as he was better known, had a quite literal taste for blood. Known for his favorite form of execution, the Wallachian Prince preferred impaling his victims on stakes, and watching them thrash and bleed out. All the while listening to the tortured …show more content…

Throughout the course of his life he was a drifter who enjoyed picking up and dropping off female hitchhikers. However, once discovering that he did not have to let the women go, he began killing them. During his childhood, Kemper was subject to abuse by an alcoholic mother, as she mentally abused him and forced him to live in the basement way from his sisters. He eventually blamed her with all his problems. Characteristic of a Sociopath. Kemper admitted to dreaming about murder in his early childhood, often fantasizing about killing his mother. He often would make his sisters play a game with him in which they blindfolded him, and lead him to a chair, where he would pretend to be in a gas chamber and writhe around on the floor until he eventually “died”. His very first victims were his family cats, where he buried one alive and the second he stabbed with a knife. (Edmund