The monster’s blood persists beyond its defeat through the hybrid child

Evidence

But there is a problem. Although Mina Harker lives, she has been infected with the monster’s blood. The book ends with Mina giving birth to a child that may be partdracul, suggesting that miscegenation will go on. This pensive ending to the story of Dracula establishes the model for contemporary representations of hybridity, found in horror and science fiction literature and film to this day. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 558

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s core question about what the monster lets its makers avoid seeing—the fear that ‘miscegenation will go on’ despite the monster’s death.
• CANDY: Fun fact: Dracula ends with a possibly half-vampire baby, making the monster unstoppable even in defeat.

Related

• Dracula’s ending confesses that the monster’s hybrid blood cannot be fully purged. (similarity 0.94)
• Hybridity persists as the defining modern monster from Dracula to Butler (similarity 0.80)
• Miscegenation with monstrous others threatens racial purity in the story (similarity 0.79)