Wallachia

example of authenticity, culture and history. Situated south of Ukraine, Romania sits directly atop the sinuous curve of the Carpathian Mountains. Originally, Romania was a province of the ancient Roman empire call Dacia. A combination of Moldavia and Wallachia, Romania secured its name in 1866. Romania is primarily a Republic with a capitalistic economy and a populace that speaks Romanian, with a conversational level of English. The beauty of Romania lies in the variety of visual extravagance…

and who also practiced and followed Christian Orthodoxy. A few centuries later, around 5th century AD, nomadic Asian and European tribes, such as Goths, Huns, and Slavs invaded Dacia. By the mid 14th century the former Dacian nation, then known as Wallachia and Moldavia became part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1862, the two states unite to form Romania. It wasn’t until 1877 that Romania was declared independent from the Ottoman Empire. In 1881, Kingdom of Romania is officially proclaimed until the…

Following psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, I believe that a good way to explain Vlad Dracula’s violent behavior is through social learning theory. Social Learning Theory is the belief that, learning is a cognitive process that occurs through of social contexts, either through observation or instruction, experienced as an adolescent. As I described earlier in this paper, at the age of, either 12 or 13, Dracula, along with his brother Ruda, were both sent to be captives of the…

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

The entire story has a protagonist and for me Dr. John Seward is the protagonist from this story. This protagonist represents a good person that cares for others. This protagonist is a character that has help in different ways. John Seward is part of a group of people that wanted to destroy Dracula. Dr. John Seward does not really have a focus of bean a doctor he is focusing more in Lucy. He has focus more in Lucy because he is hard broken they broke Dr. John Seward hard. Lucy is not in love…

The nascent Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman I on the twenty-seventh of July, 1299 , existed in optimal conditions for expansion utilizing both conquest and diplomacy due to the status of propinquitous states: a derelict Byzantine Empire (as a direct consequence of the Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Latin Kingdom) and various aggregate beyliks previously under the dominion of the expeditiously declining Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Osman I, entirely reliant upon Ghazi to facilitate his…

Vlad the Impaler and H H Holmes had the same tactics but were not the same person. Vlad the Impaler was someone who impaled people, and H H Holmes was someone who was a thief, committed a bunch of frauds, and he was also a murderer. The reasons that I think Vlad the Impaler and H H Holmes had the same tactics but were not the same person is because Vlad the Impaler had a dark childhood but H H Holmes was a privileged child and was very intelligent, Vlad the Impaler impaled people while H H…

Fear is seen throughout the entire book of Dracula, it is something that we as human beings cannot escape from because there will always be fear. According to the dictionary fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or pose a threat to you or anyone around you. The vampire that Dracula is depicted as all the fears of people, around that time period, bottled into one person. The Dracula figure really helped to…

Helsing- the vampire hunter- this story is a legacy. Stoker 's novel was not solely based on the facts given to him by the people around him, but it is said that he based Count Dracula on an authentic person. His name was Vlad the Impaler, a prince of Wallachia, a region in Transylvania. Vlad was also known as 'Dracul ' or 'Dragon ' because he was involved in the same organization to keep Christianity safe from heathens. He is known mainly for his torture tactics during battles against the…

Dracula’s castle in the beginning of the novel. “Draculas confirmation is almost a quotation from Stokers source; the Count goes on to explain that the treasures were buried during the numerous invasions to which the region was subjected.”(Ingelbein) Wallachia where the real Vlad the Impaler lived was frequently invaded by numerous armies, including Turkish and Hungarian forces. Vlad the Impaler forced everyone in his kingdom to burn the crops and poison wells and destroy everything so the Turks…