The version I focused on for the sake of this essay was the book. I have watched eleven of the thirty-three Dracula films that I own, so some references will be made to the films. The book is told from the perspective of Jonathan Harker's diary, with some letters to and from his girlfriend Mina. The purpose of his visit with Count Dracula is for Harker to sell a building to Dracula. Carfax Abby was in England where Dracula wanted to move. Harker went to Transylvania to help Count Dracula with his move to England. Even though Harker was the protagonist, I didn't consider him a hero. He wasn't actively looking for something heroic, he was just going with the flow. I considered Dracula to be an anti-hero in this story. Even though he was technically the villain, I challenged myself to analyze Dracula as the hero of the story. Without Dracula, vampires wouldn't be as popular in today's pop culture. Many vampire characters talk about Dracula's impact on culture (Melton 303). Bram Stoker took the legend of Vlad Tepes and used it as an idea for Dracula. He was the ruler of an old country called Wallachia. He is best known for impaling his enemies with sticks around his castle. He taught himself how to miss vital organs from the body, causing the victim to die slowly and painfully. This is why people consider him an ancient vampire. What people don't know about him is that the rich loved him, but the poor hated him. For anyone who didn't need sealing to get by, he was great. But the poor people who couldn't buy food were still afraid of him. He was abused as a child, and that seems to be the root cause of his behavior. (Melton 1053) Someone else who fueled the legend of Dracul...... middle of paper ...... about Dracula as a class system. Turning into a vampire could represent a change in social class. Being involved with someone from a different social class was rarely done and looked down upon. Additionally, it was almost impossible to change classes once in one. The vampire, or monster, could be seen as the unfavorable decline in social status. The trust the family placed in Dracula only to be betrayed by him could be considered fraud. The assumption of what Dracula represents, being lower class, makes the upper class family believe that he is of a higher class than he actually is. This makes him the bad guy. This also means that it must be revealed for what it really is. This is seen when Van Helsing discovers that Dracula is a vampire. This would mean that the manifesto is a monster that kills people, and the secret secretly belongs to the lower class..