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 to the films will be made. 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 that Harker is selling a building to Dracula. Carfax Abby was in England where Dracula wanted to move. Harker traveled to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula in his move to England. Although Harker was the protagonist, I didn't consider him a hero. He didn't actively seek anything heroic, he just went with the flow. In this story I saw Dracula as an anti-hero. Even though he was technically the villain, I challenged myself to analyze Dracula as the hero of the story. If it weren't for Dracula, vampires wouldn't be as popular in pop culture today. There are many vampire characters that speak to the impact Dracula had on the culture (Melton 303). Bram Stoker took the legend of Vlad Tepes and used it as the idea for Dracula. He was the ruler of an ancient country called Wallachia. He is most famous for impaling his enemies on sticks around his castle. He taught himself how to lose the body's vital organs, 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 have to seal to make it, it was great. But the poor who could not buy food were always afraid of him. He was abused as a child and this is believed to be what caused his behavior. (Melton 1053) Someone else who fueled the Dracul legend... center of the card... about Dracula as a class system. Turning into a vampire could represent social class change. Being involved with someone from a different social class was rare and looked down upon. Furthermore, it was almost impossible to change classes once at a time. 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 a fraud. Dracula's hypothetical meaning of being lower class tricks the upper class family into thinking he is of a higher class than he actually is. This makes him the bad guy. It also means that it needs to be revealed for what it really is. This is shown when Van Helsing discovers that Dracula is a vampire. This would mean that the overt is a monster who kills people, and the covert secretly belongs to the lower class.