When Bram Stoker wrote it in the late 19th century, it was echoing the fear for this immigration waves of people from Eastern Europe. So Bram Stoker exploited the fear that British people had of migrant workers coming from the East. The metaphor of the blood is the key to understanding all this. And it's easy to read into the whole blood problem that's at the center of Dracula - a scare of sexual transmitted disease.

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