Vampires are un-dead and therefore they sleep in coffins and look as though they are dead. In Harker's observation of Count Dracula sleeping, he notes that the Count 'was either dead or asleep'; as a vampire, the Count looked so dead in his sleep, particularly in the coffin, that it was difficult to tell.
on a pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count! He was either dead or asleep. I could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death, and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor. The lips were as red as ever.
Even Bram Stoker's famous Dracula did not need to sleep in a coffin, but did, however, need his native soil to sleep on. The idea of vampires in coffins originated from the 1931 classic film 'Dracula'.
In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Count Dracula is a tall, thin, pale, white-haired man with a long mustache. He also has hairy palms and long, sharp fingernails to match his pointed ears and long, sharp, white teeth. Although he appears well-mannered, there is something about him that inspires fear in Jonathan.
Answer and Explanation: Dracula regains his youth by consuming human blood. His day-to-day hunts preserve his life, but when he truly indulges in a kill, draining a full-grown human entirely of its blood, his youthful appearance is revived.
He is, as he is called in Bram Stoker's 1897 text, the King Vampire. He is a menacing spectre in a foreign castle. He is a balding, long-fingered, shadowy ghoul. But he is also a handsome Hungarian man in a tuxedo and cape.
Vampires are un-dead and therefore they sleep in coffins and look as though they are dead. In Harker's observation of Count Dracula sleeping, he notes that the Count 'was either dead or asleep'; as a vampire, the Count looked so dead in his sleep, particularly in the coffin, that it was difficult to tell.
Having watched various on screen movie performances of The Count, portrayed by various actors from Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee, Louis Jordan , Frank Langella and even Leslie Nielsen, I was surprised to learn Dracula has a mustache in the original novel.
After Dracula's box is finally loaded onto a wagon by Romani men, the hunters converge and attack it. After routing the Romani, Harker decapitates Dracula as Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Romani.
Porphyria is an inherited blood disorder that causes the body to produce less heme — a critical component of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues. It seems likely that this disorder is the origin of the vampire myth.
The vampires' drinking of blood echoes the Christian rite of Communion, but in a perverted sense. Rather than gain eternal spiritual life by consuming wine that has been transformed into Christ's blood, Dracula drinks actual human blood in order to extend his physical—but quite soulless—life.
Zoe Helsing (who drank Dracula's blood, which contained the essence and memories of Agatha), finally realized the ultimate truth about Dracula: the vampire's fear of the cross is directly tied to his fear of death and his shame that he is cursed to live forever.
Dracula "seduces" both Lucy and Mina. In the former case, he suggestively "penetrates" Lucy's neck while Lucy, who had been sleepwalking, is sprawled over a mossy embankment, outside.
In 1476, while marching to yet another battle with the Ottomans, Vlad and a small vanguard of soldiers were ambushed, and Vlad was killed and beheaded — by most reports, his head was delivered to Mehmed II in Constantinople as a trophy to be displayed above the city's gates.
The novel ends with a final battle in which the men seize Count Dracula's coffin. Harker cuts Dracula's head off while Morris stabs him in the heart. Dracula's body crumbles into dust, signaling that he is finally defeated, and that Mina is no longer in danger.
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ˈvlad ˈtsepeʃ]) or Vlad Dracula (/ˈdrækjʊlə, -jə-/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ˈdrəkule̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77.
In the original 1897 Dracula novel by Bram Stoker, the 1931 film, and the 1992 film Dracula will not / does not burn in the sunlight. In the original novel Dracula was nocturnal, the day is not his natural time. It's his usual time of rest but he can move about by day.
Dracula is popularly depicted at 6 foot 4 inches (1.93 m) tall, but was originally portrayed by Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931) at 6 foot 1 inch (1.85 m) tall. Dracula, a vampire spawned from the imagination of Bram Stoker and the namesake of his 1897 novel, is the most iconic vampire of all time.
