Jonathan Harker

The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into…

perverse vampires, he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still the obeying and supporting wife to Jonathan. Though she embodies some of its traits, Mina…

During this time period, purity, innocence, loyalty, and intelligence were all considered to be desirable qualities of a woman. This is why Mina Harker, who is the embodiment of these ideals, is described as a desirable wife. This was also a period during which a new kind of woman, who was more intelligent and independent, began to emerge. Mina Harker reflects these new ideals through her intelligence, job, and skill regarding modern technology. Unchaste and sexually-forward women were viewed as…

In a statement by Carol A. Senf she explains how Mina is an important character in the story. “ if it were not for Mina Harker, the reader might conclude that Stoker is a repressed Victorian man with an intense hatred of women or at least a pathological aversion to them” (Snef 1). Mina demonstrates some characteristics of the New Woman however she does not express herself…

described the first complete theory of personality, and founded psychoanalysis. His descriptions described the mental and emotional systems of defense, which we all have, but vary depending on the situation we are forced to face. The characters of Jonathan Harker and Lucy Westenra featured in Dracula by Bram Stoker attempt to conform to the social norms of the European Victorian era, however, occasionally the intellectual drive of the Eros and Thanatos tendencies of the Id surface…

through Jonathan Harker who is a lawyer and visiting Dracula in Transylvania for a real estate business. Harker describes Count’s appearance as his face being aquiline, with a high bridge thin nose, with a lofty forehead, massive eyebrows, bushy hair, heavy mustache, sharp teeth, with sharp fine finger nails (28). In the film, Dracula had similarities such as the animalistic finger nails but, he did not have the long mustache. In the adaptation when Dracula introduced himself to Jonathan,…

the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble” (page 138). This quote, coming from the famous novel Dracula, captures the message Bram Stoker creates in the novel about the roles of men and women. In the story, solicitor and nobleman Jonathan Harker is invited to Castle Dracula to finish a real estate transaction. He quickly becomes unsettled during his travels due to warnings, crucifixes, and charms given to him by local peasants. Yet, the mission continues, and he goes on through the…

the Israelites, Abraham Van Helsing is the self-established leader of the vampire hunters, and he provides the others with moral inspiration to defeat the vampiric reign of terror. By the end of the novel, the other characters, such as Mina and Jonathan Harker, have come to incorporate aspects of Catholicism into their own lives, if not have symbolically converted. For example, the…

There nearly countless incarnations of the famous Count Dracula. Even today, just saying his name is more than enough to get people talking. Such is the staying power of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Originally published in 1897, Dracula has become an incredibly well known and beloved classic. Throughout the novel, the title character represents an inversion of typical Christian values, particularly the act of Holy Communion. This repeated inversion of common Christian beliefs and values are used to…

Through the first chapters of the book, one of the protagonists Jonathan Harker is able to use vast examples of allusions referring to English author Shakespeare, books like Arabian Nights and Hamlet, and even a specific battle known as the Waterloo battle. Even both at the same time like “Mem., this diary seems horribly…