Role Of Mina In Dracula

Kathryn Boyd, in her analysis of Dracula, questions whether the actual status of Mina in the novel is exemplified as her tale of female empowerment or female subjugation. The portrayal of Mina has often been considered to be demeaning since she has become an intentional part of Dracula’s revenge. Boyd examines the idea of Mina being a figure who exemplifies the injustice that women felt during Stoker’s era, where women were merely used in a man’s world for their pleasure. Boyd uses a clear, definitive theoretical reading through the feminist lens but solely focuses on Mina and the overall suppression of women in the text. If we were to apply such analysis to the text and not the characters, one would question if the same analysis would be made. The female characters in Dracula symbolize the changing and traditional roles of women, as previously mentioned above; …show more content…
Miss Mina, however, represents the changing role of women during this century. She has a complete knowledge of the typewriters and phonographs and is already shown to be married to one man.
Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are two characters that Bram Stoker uses to provide readers with proof for all the scientific knowledge and theories concerned with Dracula. This is so that the text may become as believable as possible. Dracula is written in first person singular, and the shifting points of view from character to character also helps build characters’ personalities, and characters that seem flat become more rounded. The text of the book is written in a formal and casual tone; the formal tone being the magazine clippings and the casual tone being in the phonographs, letters and journal entries. The narrative voice is in epistolary format to aid with the shifting points of view, character by character, and the author’s