In Dracula, Stoker presents a stark representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous Victorian woman who is also educated, but obediently follows the rules of society and those placed upon her by the men in her life. She not only represents purity and virtue, but she is also a “woman who was all perfection” (311) and a noble wife. Although
