Miscegenation with monstrous others threatens racial purity in the story

Evidence

This scene, much like Jonathon’s orgy scene, links the consumption of drinking human blood with oral sex, something Stoker’s text only intimates. In these scenes, Coppola expresses one of the central themes in Bram Stoker’s text, that miscegenation is a practice that creates monsters. The possibility of the monstrous race of human-vampire hybrids is intimated at the end of the film, with Mina’s pregnancy. If Mina isn’t carrying Jonathon’s child, British racial purity is, once again, under threat from a race of monsters. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 665

Categorization

• XREF: Core to reader’s thesis: the monster is a container for the anxiety about racial/blood contamination. The Muslim-coded vampire embodies this.
• SEED: Article angle: how the Dracula figure’s Eastern coding maps the fear of miscegenation onto Muslims, continuing into current discourse about Muslim birth rates and demography.