Senor Raul,
Who is Dracula? One of the the first fictional vampires .He represents a being who feeds on the blood of human beings.That is how he manages to prolong his own life. Dracula,in a way, is the Will to Live.That is why "Dracula" is afraid of the "Cross".
What does the Cross symbolise? Complete Renunciation.
Anyway, back to WWR Book II: We are not (as Book I may have suggested) passive, disembodied spectators of the world of objects,but essentially embodied and active. The will in us is primary,not the intellect.This one thought is extremely fruitful for Schopenhauer,and he uses it to mount a sustained attack on the notion of the purely rational and self-transparent subject of perspectiveless knowledge.The human body ,not only in its actions but in all its functions and in its very growth and formation ,is a manifestation of will.Thus,Book II presents us with an extraordinary panoramic view of the whole world as springing into empirical object-hood out of one and the same essence,the all-permeating,unconscious striving force.In us,the will is a primary element which can also be called the "will to life",an urge both to go on living and to produce new life,to reproduce.It exhibits itself especially strongly in the form of sexual desire ,but it is also in evidence in a number of ways throughout our life,interfering constantly with the workings of the fragile self-conscious intellect with which philosophers are wont to equate the self.Intellect and will must be clearly distinguished."I" can be seen as composed of the two,but the will in many respects is the dominant partner. In fact, since it is conditional on the growth of an organism complete with brain and nervous system,the intellect is as much a natural manifestation of the will as anything else in organic nature.This is how ,in us,the will becomes conscious of itself.
(Book II to be continued)