Dracula, as written by Bram Stoker, presents us with perhaps the most infamous monster in all of literature. Count Dracula, as a fictional character, has come to symbolize the periphery among the majority and being an outsider to that group. Dracula's appeal across years and genres undoubtedly comes from his sense of romance and monster. Readers are undoubtedly drawn to his "bad boy" sensibility, which provides a draw to the novel. By first looking at his appearance, personality, and behavior at the beginning of the novel, we can easily see Dracula's blurred outsider status, as he occupies the boundaries between human and monster. Related to this is Dracula's geographical sense of outsiderness. For all intents and purposes, Dracula is an immigrant to England, which places him further into the realm of outsiders. To consider Bram Stoker's Dracula solely as a monster in the most violent sense of his actions would be to consider only one aspect of his character, and therefore we must look at how he interacts with the outside world to truly understand him. of Dracula's physical description is to pit him against humanity and see how he fares. He has various features that obviously make him a vampire, such as a set of sharp teeth. But there are other peculiarities in his description that mark him as an outsider. For example, when Jonathon Harker, and by extension the reader, first meets Dracula, he describes him as "a tall old man, clean-shaven except for a long white moustache, and dressed in black from head to toe" (Stoker 15) . . At this point, he's a normal-looking man, or at least normal enough to not elicit any reaction from Jonathon. Later, however, Dracula's aberrant constitution as......middle of paper......elf taking on other forms and becoming something that no longer even reveals a human being. Every part of Dracula's "adventure" in England is a reaction to his outsider status, but more importantly because it attacks readers, or at least the readers Stoker wrote for, in their homeland. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Dracula's otherness comes from the fact that he is an immigrant from a foreign land, a land that is itself far from certainty because it is culturally in-between. This immigrant status initially begins as basic hatred, then turns into fear as Dracula attempts to colonize England and dominate it. Works CitedStoker, Bram. Dracula. Toronto: Project Gutenberg Publishing, 1897.Kane, Michael. “Insiders/Outsiders: “The Negro in Conrad's “Narcissus” and Bram Stoker's “Dracula”” The Modern Language Review. 92.1 (1997): 1-21. Press.