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I wouldn't think of Dracula as having any type of grand plan. In the Classicvanias, it would seem he has an almost animalistic mind, or maybe he's like a parasite (he is a bloodsucker of course), and it's stated he is a manifestation of mankind's sins. A virus in your body is only motivated to survive, and it doesn't grasp the concept of survival so much as go about it with single-minded instinct, and I feel that Dracula is similar, a sickness afflicting the world of mankind which doesn't "want" to destroy everything but does because it is destructive by nature. SotN onward characterizes him as a tragic figure who is lashing out at the world in constant pain due to the loss of his wife. I like the former better because it's cool to think about evil itself manifesting as a long dead eastern european warlord whose thirst for blood is symbolic of the thirst he had in life for power and domination, which all humans possess in some way and accounts for much of the misery in the world.