Therefore, the murder of a peasant's wife not only relieves the kingdom of scum, but also strengthens its superiority by controlling every aspect of its 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 the slightest remorse. There's a reason he was known as the Impaler. During his short 6-year reign, Dracula killed between 40,000 and 100,000 people, killing more than Ivan the Terrible and Robespierre combined, mainly through his sacred art of impalement (p. 76). He also used decapitation and cutting off limbs one by one until death, and he invented the cartoonish action of dropping people from a trapdoor into a room full of spikes to impale them (p. 76). Just from the sheer number of people he killed, it can be clearly seen that he lacked empathy, as no normal person can commit that many deaths in such a short period of time without being mentally tainted. In addition to this, Dracula also demonstrated a lack of concern for social consequences and