Count Dracula’s origins are found in Eastern Europe–a marginalized, liminal, obscure, blank space on the map, which is, from the dominant White English perspective, associated with darkness, darkness, undesirable ethnic traits, and the practice of religious superstitions (again, from the Protestant English perspective on Roman Catholicism). Like Victor Frankenstein’s nameless Monster, Dracula is violent and bent on revenge.
In a well-constructed and typo-free essay, describe and discuss Dracula as a repository of English cultural anxiety about otherness, which is represented in the novel variously as deformity, monstrosity, criminality, and racial, ethnic, and gender and sexual difference. T
