I am sure Kelsey has already found this but I think this web site is pretty interesting. I found the site http://vampires.monstrous.com/dracula_history.htm. It has the history of a lot of popular vampires and short stories about them and he history of them. One of the ancestors of Dracula is Basarab the Great (1310-1352). He was the first Prince of Wallachia which is a province of Romania. Dracula’s grandfather, Prince Mirces the Old regained from 1386-1418. Mircea had an illegitimate son named Vlad (Dracula’s farther) born around 1390. Vlad served as a page for King Sigismund of Hungary because he was educated in Hungary and Germany. Vlads son Vlad Tepes (Dracula) was born sometime between 1430 and 1431 in a Transylvanian town called Schassburg (aka Sighisoara). Just a little bit after he was born Vlad joined the order of the dragon. We think he got the name Vlad Dracul because it was believed the dragon stood for the devil or that Romanian archaic word for dragon is drac, so his subjects called him Vlad Dracul (Vlad the devil). The ending –uela means “the son of” so Druculs son Vlad III this became Vlad Dracula (the Son of the Devil). I recommend looking at the site because there are 4 pages on just the history of Dracula.
Ligeia- I think that the Vampire in the story is Ligeia, his wife. I think the way he describes her body in the second and third paragraph shows the she could be a vampire. He also showed signs of a vampire a little bit in the den of the first paragraph. I was really confused in the part of the story that is written like a poem I didn’t understand what that was supposed to be or what.
The Oval Portrait- I honestly can’t really say much about this because I was confused for the entire thing I couldn’t even sense a little bit that was like vampires. I mean is a good story but it is very confusing.
The Fall of the House of Usher. All I can really say is I think the friend at the beginning of the story is the Vampire because I can’t explain why but I just feel that it is. after that part I was confused again. I love Edgar Allan Poe but his stories can be really confusing to me.
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That's what I picked up about Ligeia as well. During The Oval Portrait, I think that there was a narrator describing the inscription under a portrait in his chamber, and the inscription was the story about the young woman who married the painter, who became obsessed with painting her, and then she died. The Fall of the House of Usher is probably related to vampires since Lady Madeline comes out of the coffin near the end of the story (during the storm).
Creepy, morbid website, thank you for that.
Is that all you could get for The Fall of The House of Usher? Did you even actually read it? Come on! Everything about Usher and Madeline just screams 'VAMPIRE' loudly off the roof at 3am! Usher even complains about how even the faintest light is torture to him.
I had a feeling that you would be interested in the history of Dracula, however, I was wondering, on that site it does say the origin of his name, but, from what I've researched it was not his birth name, does it tell you what his real name was?
For the Oval Potrait I think the main idea that demostrated vampirism was that the painter took the life from his wife and it went into the painting. However to really pick up on that I think you'd have had to read like a Keltic myth or something else of the type that has vampires drinking energy instead of blood. Also if you've read the Vampire Knight Manga yet it is mentioned in there. In Ligeia the poem part is Ligeia hinting at the fact that she knows she will come back, I believe.
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