Most certainly a very modern monster- suave, sophisticated, cultured, educated, attractive
in every sense of the word, extremely considerate and thoughtful, highly intelligent
ad utterly, chillingly heartless.
He smiles a lot; not a smile of friendship but a smile that says he knows things.
Far more terrifying than immoral, Dracula is amoral- morality to him is a pose, an
affectation, a pretence. To him, life is a question of raising yourself while simultaneously
lowering others. His favourite quote is from Attila the Hun: “It is not that I should
win; that everyone else must lose.” Human beings amuse him in much the same way as
captured mice amuse cats.
He sees humans as utterly without merit, value or significance other than that
they might coincidentally and periodically be able to lend to the facilitation of
his schemes. Fastidious in the extreme, he despises any ‘unpleasantness’- extremely
ironic considering what a profoundly unpleasant character he is. A perfect and beautiful
world for him would be one in which he is absolute ruler of all things and in which
those things subjugate themselves to his greatness willingly and hungrily, even as
he tortures them by giving vent to his casual sadism and random cruelty.
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