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Dracula vs. Vampire

The main difference between Dracula and Vampire is that Dracula is just a character of a Vampire, whereas Vampire is a blood-sucking creature.

Key Differences

Dracula was a living man; however, Vampires are deceased people who have come back.
Janet White
Aug 22, 2020
Dracula is a type of character that has been based on a vampire; on the flip side, a Vampire is a type of creature that evidently originated.
Dracula is a fictional character; on the other hand, a Vampire is a type of bat.
Dracula didn’t need to intake the bodily fluids to survive, although Vampires conversely need the energy of living humans.
Aimie Carlson
Aug 22, 2020
Dracula preyed on former lovers; contrarily, Vampires prey on family members.
Harlon Moss
Aug 22, 2020
Dracula killed enemies and members of the general public, while Vampires only kill their close family members.
Samantha Walker
Aug 22, 2020
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Dracula is an object of the Vampire class whereas, the Vampire is a class.
Dracula is only sucking human blood; conversely, Vampires is the great leader of mammal bloodsucker.
Dracula lived in Transylvania; on the other side, Vampires are real, and they live among us.

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The chief of vampires is known as Dracula.
A breed of undead creatures is known as Vampire.

Their Life

Was living
Are deceased

Taste For Blood

Figurative taste for blood
Literal taste of blood
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Victim They Choose

Enemies and the general public
Close family member

Dracula and Vampire Definitions

Dracula

Comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips

Vampire

In popular folklore, an undead being in human form that survives by sucking the blood of living people, especially at night.

Dracula

Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker

Vampire

A person, such as an extortionist, who takes advantage of others, especially for personal gain.

Vampire

A vampire bat.
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Vampire

A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living.

Vampire

(colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as vampirism, with effects such as photosensitivity and brownish-red stained teeth.

Vampire

A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)

Vampire

A person who drains one's time, energy, money, etc.

Vampire

(dated) A vamp: a seductive woman who exploits men.

Vampire

A medical technician who works with patients' blood.

Vampire

Synonym of anti-ship missile(ASM), particularly an incoming hostile one.
Vampire. Vampire. Vampire. Battle stations.

Vampire

To drain of energy or resources.

Vampire

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies.
The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church,

Vampire

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Vampire

Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla; also called vampire bat. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.

Vampire

Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially Vampyrus spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

Vampire

(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

Dracula vs. Vampire

The origin of Dracula is from the medieval Romanian Lord named Vlad and Impaler; on the other hand, the origin of the Vampire originated during the 11th century in Russia from the European literature. Dracula gained dishonor for harpooning about 100,000 people on his favorite method of the sharp spike, whereas Vampire referred to ghostly spirits that need to be eliminated from the cadaver of our loved ones. In 1897 by a novelist Bram Stoker, real life is turned into an undead and spiritless Dracula; on the flip side, Greeks, Indians, Mesopotamians, Japanese and other cultures of South America believe in unearthed creatures like Vampires.

Dracula is a real man who lived in Transylvania, was popular as “the impaler ”, a warrior, the psychopath, a king he lived and died, but his terror didn’t. Vampires are real, and they live among us, they are real humans who have fetishes for blood. They do not have fangs or any other supernatural powers except for immorality and forever youthfulness. Dracula was a living person when he performed his crimes, and he was named the Vlad the Impaler, while Vampires are deceased people who have come back.

Dracula, a living man, had a figurative taste for blood, he killed people, and that was that. He did not need to intake the fluid of their body to survive; on the contrary, the Vampires need the energy of living humans to survive, so it’s a literal taste with them. Dracula is a nobleman, but he isn’t leading society of Vampires that mirror the Illumination, whereas Vampire stands in for the human struggle between good and evil.

What is Dracula?

Dracula is Irish author Stoker’s gothic horror novel of 1897. It introduced Count Dracula’s story and recognized many subsequent vampire fantasy conventions. Furthermore, Dracula’s character is also assigned for some writings, horror movies, fiction writings, and for some invasions literature. Dracula’s character is also sometimes taken as different types of scholarly writings. Vlad, or Dracula, was born into a respectable family in Transylvania in 1431. His father was known in Romanian as “Dracula,” meaning “Dragon” or “Devil” because he was related to the Dragon’s order, which battled the Ottoman Muslim Empire. “Dracula,” in Romanian, means “son of Dracul.” Young Vlad thus became “son of the dragon” or “son of the lord.”

Vlad impaled his foes on stakes to consolidate his political power in Walachia. One account also claimed that while his victims were dying atop the stakes, Vlad would dip bread in their blood and eat it ahead of them, but that account is unconfirmed. Whether Vlad truly drains blood, the parallels with Stoker’s Dracula remain evident. Some critics, however, have argued that Stoker’s inspiration came primarily from other sources, which Vlad simply provided the name.

Dracula has been interpreted as an expression of hysteria about eastern Europeans invading Western Europe, as represented by a Transylvanian who arrives in London and terrorizes its residents. Others see Stoker’s novel as a search of suppressed concupiscence and a reaction to the patriarchal and conservative norms broadly prevalent in Britain during the Victorian period. Notably, it inverts the era’s stereotypical gender roles through the highly sexualized actions of the feminine vampires.

What is the Vampire?

A Vampire can also be a folklore entity that subsists by feeding on living life’s precious essence that is usually within the blood type. Vampires are supernatural beings in European mythology who had often visited loved ones and created havoc or death inside the communities they occupied when they were alive. Vampires are the evil mythological creature roaming the earth in the night looking out for humans whose blood they feed on. These should be everyone’s best known classic monsters.

There are almost as many Vampire traits as there are vampire stories. Yet vampires (or Vampyres) are most typical of drinking human blood. Basically, they drink the blood of their prey that is a human being by the help of their sharp fangs, killing them and turning them into Vampires. Vampires usually hunt in the dark because their power is diminished by the sunlight. Others may have the power of morphing into a wolf or a bat. Sometimes, Vampires have super-power and hypnotic, sensual effect on the victims. During a mirror, they can’t see their reflection and cast no shadows.

In the case of modern days, vampires are established interesting characters. Such modern traits vampires possess fangs, drink the blood of humans, and they are not able to see themselves in the mirrors. Some literature also reveals that they will be turned away from garlic and warded off form stake. Even though some vampires are also aristocrats and they are able to sleep in castles. Few scholars claimed that the concept of Halloween comes from the different traditional believes of Europeans. Their beliefs totally rely on the fear of dead ones, buried ones, and they believe that dead ones still can hurt the living people.

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