Choose the most egregious Dracula adaptation sin
Making Mina the reincarnation of Dracula's wife
Conflating Dracula with Vlad the Impaler*
Ignoring Renfield's character arc
Making Arthur and/or Jonathan abusive or dismissive
Leaving out one or two of Lucy's suitors
Not including Dracula's lizard fashion
Making Lucy promiscuous to victim-blame her
Sidelining Jonathan or leaving him out completely
Making Dracula the hero
Switching Lucy and Mina's names
Cutting out the Demeter sequence
Leaving out Dracula's straw hat
*Nothing in Bram Stoker's research notes for Dracula indicates that the Count was based off of Vlad Dracula. In fact, nothing indicates that Stoker was aware of Vlad Dracula. Stoker originally planned to call his antagonist "Count Wampyr" before he noted that the Romanian word "dracula" meant "devil." (In Vlad Dracula's time, it meant "son of the dragon," but the meaning had since evolved.)
The current scholarly consensus is that Sir Henry Irving was the chief inspiration for Count Dracula. However, in the time before Stoker's notes were available, people understandably assumed that the fictional Romanian nobleman named Dracula who fought the Turks was based on the real Romanian nobleman named Dracula who fought the Turks. These days, it's common pop culture knowledge that "Dracula is Vlad the Impaler" and so much media portrays them as the same man that he kind of is Vlad the Impaler, no matter Stoker's intentions.
Can someone tell me if Bram Stoker was not aware of Vlad Tepes, where do the similarities in physical depiction and historical back ground that's in the book even come from?

















