ger than "normal" blood. However, it may also be a statement about how vampirism works as a renewing agent to produce a combined effect of two bloods. Dracula points to this when he catalogues his geneology and says "in our veins flows the blood of many brave races" (p 28), and that he has inherited the fighting spirit of Thor and Odin as well as the Huns. This speech seems to imply that brave blood is also additive, and as one descended from many lines long renowned for bravery, he is the bravest of all. However, the contradictory evidence to this idea is considerable. Dracula is also obviously aiming to fulfill his own agenda and people the world with one kind of creatures only - vampires. He wishes to destroy humanity and create a new race of vampires. This does not hold with the diversity that I have suggested he embodies. Further, every person who turns into a vampire has the same characteristics - hard, voluptuous, with sharp nails and teeth and red lips. There seem to be no kind vampires or good vampires, though these people may have been good or kind in their own lifetimes. Dracula seems to make the dead over in his own image when he creates the undead. And he wants to populate the whole earth with them, to the exclusion of other creatures except those that obey his will. Dracula's powerful narcissism point to a feature of vampirism that needs to make everything "other" part of the self, to make the "other" absorb and assimilate, so that all one sees is the self. From the Freudian view, Dracula literally is a "baby", as he is described so often in the text. When he sees "normal" human beings, he sees them only as wine-presses for himself, as he says to Mina. He looks at the present human occupations and sees cities filled with future vampires. Perhaps Renfield's obsession with absorbing lives is also a manifestation of this. He wants to take in other lives and make them a part of himself. Renfield does not want "souls" or indivi...
