Compare And Contrast Lucy And Mina In Dracula

“Victorian fears about women's behavior evolved into a national debate known as "The Woman Question," which encompassed issues such as property ownership, marriage contracts, inheritance law, and female sexuality, among others.” A quote from an article called “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows with the main female characters, Lucy and Mina have opposite personality, they are both portrayed as unequal to men that need to be protected and desired. The difference is that Lucy’s fate is was that she was weak in the end. while Mina’s fate rested …show more content…
I found a quote about the “New Woman” concept. “The New Woman not only posed a threat to the social order but also to the natural order, and was represented as 'simultaneously non-female, unfeminine, and ultra-feminine.'(3) Incorporated into varying depictions of the New Woman was a consistent perception of her as over-sexed and unduly interested in sexual matters.” They talk about how it is a threat to the natural order. Which is that women are just sexual objects to be …show more content…
It is like she has a choice but it was already chosen by society and is expect of her. she is of money so she needs to marry in to money and title of Lady. She still wants excitement and it is easy to see that is one reason why Dracula made her his first vampire. Another way that society controls women. They were sent more women treatment because the doctors that their menstrual cycle what mental illness even in the book do you see signs of this. Which is explained in this quote “The treatment of Lucy’s illness (through blood transfusions) obviates the Victorian obsession with treating female mental illness (sexuality) by regulating the menstrual cycle.” After reading this in the article it made new ways to look at the