The general idea of women throughout history exhibits them as caring, pure, and innocent. Women in the Victorian era were expected to obey their husbands. Mina is a perfect example of the ideal Victorian woman. She is sexually innocent, intelligent, and faithful to Jonathan throughout the novel. Furthermore, men in the Victorian era expected their wives to hold qualities of purity and sexual innocence. The novel reveals the overt sexuality of the three sisters as intriguingly taboo to the main characters. If a woman holds qualities of impurity, she is thought to be evil and corrupt.
