The vision here is a full completion of the message of Christianity. The elimination of the devil and the elimination of Dracula follow the same pattern. In this way, it is a true book. G.K. Chesterton said the following about fairytales, “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” In this way, Dracula becomes not just a piece of entertainment, but a way that the story can edify its reader.

Edmund Burke, writing in response to the violent bacchanalia in France on the heels of the Revolution of 1789, said that decorum, propriety, signs of honor and respect, and all ancient manners that dignified man and greased the wheels of life in society, are indeed “illusions,” but they are ones that are “necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature.”