Vlad The Impaler Tepes Research Paper

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Vlad Tepes or Vlad III Draculea or commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, because of his habit of impaling his enemies through large wooden stakes. He was the former ruler of Walachia and a ruthless man and a folk hero to his people. The full history of Vlad is one filled with death and war, as he embark on multiple campaigns of war. Vlad was born as the second son of four male children, his sobriquet draculea meaning “son of dracul,” was derived the latin draco “dragon” after his father induction into the order of the dragon. Vlad had moved to Walachia in 1436 when his father gained leadership of the walachian. After a few years his father and brother was assassinated by walachian nobles, after that he begun a long series of campaigns to regain
Though there is another thing that both Dracula and Vlad share, it is that they are both monsters who thirst for blood, the former of which is the blood of the innocent while the latter is the blood of those he deemed sinners. This is not the first time people had believed that false information was fact, one example is the common belief that men had bought diamond rings for the woman they love was always around, but that is also false. Back to the topic, there is just too many differences between Vlad and Dracula and not enough similarities and details to say that these two characters are the same person. Dracula was an intelligent monster that had feasted on the blood of the innocent for centuries and manipulated several of his victims. In the end Dracula was a fictional character who brought a new feeling of terror in the horror genre and brought in several thousands of people to the vampire culture and still remains as someone to fear and love. Vlad was a man who spent a lifetime trying to regain his father’s seat, through bloody wars and violence. He was a man who had done the the most haunting of acts to those he considered his

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