Do U think bramstoker wrote " Dracula " maybe based on true story ; coz even when the researchers ........

Question

opened Dracula's coffin it was empty ; not even skeleton ;

Who knows maybe ; he renounced god & became a vampire ;MOREOVER THE ENTIRE WORLD REMEMBERS HIM FOR HIS CRUELTY & BLOOD DRINKING HABITS;

Moreover as shown in the movie his wife did commited suicide by drowning in the Danube river; so maybe that novel & all its characters are based on a true story ; who knows??

********WHAT DO U THINK??? UR COMMENST??*********

Answer 1

No it was not based on a true story. Ironically, Vlad Dracula was from a country where, to this day, some of the villagers still believe in vampires (the dead kind that rise from the grave) and he himself was never considered a vampire by them. In what is now Romania he is considered a heroical figure for restoring the law and defending his country against the Turks.

So why would Bram Stoker "make this claim"?

"Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker's inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised."

So really, he was likely enticed to investigate the subject due to elements in popular culture at the time, came across the historical figure Vlad Dracula while doing so, simply because the man is a facinating part of Eastern European history, went to visit a castle, the catacomb reminded him of vampires, and with that in his mind, began thinking of Wallachia, and with that in his mind, being in the castle, started thinking of the Count Vlad Dracula, and it hit him, "Hey, I can one up that Sir Francis Varney character by making my character a Count instead of a knight! Genius Bram, Genius!"

For the record, there's doubt that Vlad Dracula did all the things they said he did, and his decendants are alive and well and not vampires.