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 between coming of age and being an outsider to that group. Dracula's appeal across years and genres undoubtedly comes from its sense of romance and monster. Readers are undoubtedly drawn to his "bad boy" sensibilities, which constitutes an appeal to the novel. Looking first 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 of human and monster. Added to this is Dracula's geographical sense of foreignness. For all intents and purposes, Dracula is an immigrant to England, thus placing him even more in the realm of foreigners. To view Bram Stoker's Dracula as only a monster in the most violent sense of his actions would be to consider only one aspect of his character, and so we must look at how he interacts with the outside world to truly understand him. The physical description of Dracula is to put him against humanity and see how he stacks up. He has various characteristics that obviously make him a vampire, such as a set of sharp teeth. But there are other peculiarities in his description that make him a stranger. For example, when Jonathon Harker, and by extension the reader, first encounters Dracula, he describes him as "a tall old man, clean-shaven except for a long white mustache, and dressed in black head to toe” (Stoker 15). . At this point, he's a normal-looking man, or at least normal enough that nothing elicits a reaction from Jonathon. Later, however, Dracula's aberrant constitution transformed middle of paper into other forms and becoming something that no longer even reveals a human. Every part of Dracula's "adventure" in England is a reaction to his outsider status, but more so because it attacks the readers, or at least the readers for whom Stoker was writing, in their homeland. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Dracula's otherness comes from the fact that he is an immigrant from a foreign country, a country itself far from certainty because it is culturally intermediate. This immigrant status first begins as a basic hatred, then turns into fear when Dracula attempts to colonize England and dominate it. Works Cited Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Toronto: Project Gutenberg Publishings, 1897. Kane, Michael. “Insiders/Outsiders: “The Negro from Conrad’s “Narcissus” and Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”” The Modern Language Review. 92.1 (1997): 1-21. Print.