Why Is Vlad The Impaler Good Or Evil

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There are good and evil people in the world. It may seem that certain people were evil from the beginning, but people are born neither good or evil. It is the actions and decisions that they make in life that cause 's a person be considered good or evil. Vlad the Impaler is one of the few people in history that people from all regions consider to be evil due to the crime 's he has committed.

Vlad the Impaler, also know as Vlad Ⅲ Dracula, was born in 1431 in Sighișoara, Romania and died in 1476 in Bucharest, Romania (Pallardy; par. 1). He was the second of four brothers born in the noble family of Vlad Ⅱ Dracul. Later he moved to Târgoviște, Walachia, in 1436 when his father assumed leadership of the Wallachia. In 1442, Vlad and his brother …show more content…

He also roasted children and forced their parents to eat them. Vlad hated people who were sick, weak, poor, beggars or vagrants, so he invited all of the poor and sick of Wallachia to a fake party. He asked them if they wished to be anything other than poor people, and when they all said yes, they were all burned immediately. He also murdered his wife, and he had her sexual organs cut off. There were rumors that Vlad loved to drink blood. It is said that he killed over 100,000 people; if that is true, he killed 20 percent of Wallachia 's population. Nearly all of those people went through horrible ways of killing that would take a long time until finally Vlad was decapitated in 1476 (The 25 Most Evil People in History; par 1).

Vlad the Impaler was one of the most evil people in history. Although, compared to the other people in history, his methods of murder was just plain sadistic. I would not even call what he did murder, because when he killed people, he made sure they died in the most cruel and

painful way. He may have killed less people than someone like Adolf Hitler, but when Hitler killed people it was a quick, painless death. Therefore, Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Ⅲ Dracula, or Vlad Tepeș was and still is one of the most evil person in history for his cruel and unusual