Furthermore, issues of racism are highly evident in all three texts, but especially Frankenstein and Dracula. Critic John Allen Stevenson states in Vampire in the Mirror that “Color, in fact, which is commonly used in attempts at racial classification, is a key element in Stoker’s creation of Dracula’s foreignness. Here, and throughout the novel, the emphasis is on redness and whiteness” (141). “Lucy and Mina take on this coloration as Dracula works his will on them. There is first of all the reiterated image of red blood on a white nightgown (103, 288), a signature that Dracula leaves behind after one of his visits (and a traditional emblem of defloration)” (141).Harker calls it the “red scar on my poor darling’s white fore head” (321). The scar, a concentration of red and white that closely resembles the mark on Dracula's own forehead. …show more content…
The distinction between the moral excellence of the insiders and the physical peculiarity of the foreigner underlines the outsider's inherent danger. As Mina puts it, “[T]he world seems full of good men-even if there are monsters in it” (230). The familiar is the image of the good, while foreignness merges with monstrosity (142).
To proceed, according to Zohreh Sullivan, “the Monster’s deformity poses the colonial question of racial difference and is a cultural reminder of nineteenth-century anxieties about the proximity and fluidity of racial and sexual Otherness” (46). This is evident in the text when Frankenstein cannot accept the creature’s appearance. As the creature looks and acts differently than the natural human, he becomes