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