This showed how he could be controlled or destroyed in cases he became so dangerous. He did not have ability to cross river, which water was following unless supported my men or the luck of the water. More weaknesses emerged as holy symbols and garlic repelled him and his sleep was on the fate of ancestors and the native land. Stoker emphasized in his book, despite the weakness, it was hard to fully destroy Dracula. He lost his powers and became weak to the extent of being controlled by another person. This was evidenced when Jonathan tried to reflect his image on a shaving mirror. His powers were limited by reflecting him on reflective objects such as mirrors.
Despite his powerful nature, Dracula had a number of weaknesses as described herein. His ability to hypnotize his victims gave him control over them and avoided being hurt by others. In addition, Dracula has the ability to incarnate to a bat, werewolf and change his victims into vampires through infections. He was very powerful and he could control nature as well as living creatures such as wild animals. Dracula, the most dominant vampire in the story was described as the king by other characters such as Van Heslin. Stoker used different vampire characters to construct his book story. Matheson described Neville as an educated medical researcher who concentrated on the research on vampirism only to find out that his blood was infected though immune to the virus. He was immune to the virus though he had unique human characteristics such as blond hair and blue eyes.
Although people could be infected with vampirism virus, Matheson brings out the nature of immunity where one of his characters Robert Neville never contracted vampirism despite being infected. Similarly, Richard Matheson book was dominated by vampires who were created by infusion of viruses. The author explained how the vampire had lived for many years, which was atypical for a normal human being. In this book, Dracula, who is a vampire, is the main character. Stoker tried to expound on vampires by using them as characters in his book Dracula. Vampirism is regarded as a belief of one gaining supernatural powers and feeding on human beings blood in the folklore and popular culture.
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