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• Love for learning, experimentation, science (NT)
“...he [Dracula] was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier, statesman, and alchemist--which latter
was the highest development of the science knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a
learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He dared even to attend the
Scholomance [a sort of diabolical school], and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he
did not essay.”
“Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death. Though it would seem that memory was
not all complete. In some faculties of mind he has been, and is, only a child. But he is growing, and
some things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He is experimenting, and doing it
well.” [emphasis mine]
• Iron will, reputation for cleverness (NT)
“...he no common man, for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and
the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land beyond the forest.' That mighty brain
and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us.”
• Unplayful (NT seriousness)
“I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters
which please the young and gay. I am no longer young, and my heart, through weary years of
mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth.” - Dracula
• Enjoyed double entendre (NT wordplay)
“Through them [these books] I have come to know your great England, and to know her is to love
her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl
and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is [emphasis
mine].” - Dracula
• Seen as unromantic; one of Dracula’s female vampire companions accused him by saying:
“You yourself never loved. You never love!" (NTs are probably the temperament most
likely to be accused of this. But actually, Dracula insisted they were wrong.)
• Strategic intellect (NT)
• Decided to leave Transylvania and travel to London. ("International opportunities" is liked
as a job characteristic by most of the Rationals, but particularly by ENTJs. INTJs, however
place the least value on it of all the NTs.) 145
• Gave a lot of direct commands (Favors NTJ. 146 However, since Dracula born and raised in
a position of absolute power, surrounded by servants, and was subsequently a military
leader, it would not be surprising if he learned to command on the way; he also sometimes
used the royal “we.” And there was also the fact that he viewed humans as mutton chops.
So is this evidence for nature or nurture? I don’t know. If it is nature, than Dracula was
likely an NTJ. If nurture, then what we have is simply an NTP who learned to give
commands at a young age. And in fact, at the time the story takes place, Dracula is pretty
much on his own; the only other vampires around appear to be his three female companions,
whom he seems to be on poor terms with. Clearly he is no longer in a leadership role, and
he seems to be content that way. He notes, “I have been so long master that I would be
master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.” One might argue that
leadership per se does not interest him; he simply does not wish to be under anyone’s
control. He added, “I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he sees me, or
pauses in his speaking if he hears my words [his foreign accent], 'Ha, ha! A stranger!'” It
seems that Dracula is no longer has much interest in standing out or building an empire.
145 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
146 Keirsey, 1987