Therefore, killing a farmer's wife not only relieves the kingdom of scum, but also strengthens his superiority by controlling all aspects of his kingdom. This story also represents Dracula's lack of empathy, regarding the fact that he killed a man's wife and gave him a new one without even a shred of remorse. There's a reason he was known as the Impaler. In his short 6-year reign, Dracula killed between 40,000 and 100,000 people, killing more than Ivan the Terrible and Robespierre combined, primarily through his sacred art of impaling (p. 76). He also used decapitation and cutting off limbs one by one until death, and invented the cartoonish action of dropping people from a trap door into a room full of spikes to be impaled (p. 76). Just from the sheer number of people he killed, one can clearly see that he lacked empathy because no normal person can commit so many deaths in such a short time without being mentally tainted. In addition to these, Dracula also showed a lack of concern for social consequences and