Mina Harker

women didn’t follow the victorian ideals society adapted to their change and the way they wanted to be. The new women plays a huge role in our society today. Almost every women in our world has the right to live like a new woman in our world today. Mina is seen as the perfect ideal victorian…

that is Dracula. Lucy is well loved and cared for by everyone. She is not only regarded often as "vulnerable" and "innocent", but also as "sexy" and "voluptuous". Her friend, Mina Harker, is also a target of Dracula yet she comes back from the dark. Where lucy is "sexy" and "voluptuous", Mina is "caring" and "motherly". "If Mina is everyone's mother, Lucy is everyone's wife" (http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/lucy-westenra.html). Lucy becomes targeted by Dracula early on in the story. The "group of…

entering or exiting without permission. The “strange driver” takes Harker to the Dracula’s estate. Harker fears for his life both in approaching and escaping the isolated property of Dracula due to the wolves, who yield before, Dracula, their master. The River Styx is associated with the realm of Hades, and those who enter lose recollection. Harker loses his memory when he leaves for the hospital. By sleeping in such a home Harker is already in a state between life and death, similar to…

away from our walls, that is, the castle of Transylvania. From here, London, Jonathan Harker had come into my home, unknowingly had fallen into his own nightmare. But the man was clever and even with the might of Dracula to frighten him more than once, he had escaped and blended in with the common people, leaving me powerless to haunt him down. I was languid today morning, with the thought of Jonathan Harker outclassing the strength…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. The protagonist, Jonathan Harker, a realtor, was sent to the castle of Transylvania to complete a transaction with the antagonist, Count Dracula, an evil vampire, so he can move to England. What Harker did not know was that Dracula had a plan for world domination. Christian redemption was shown in many ways throughout the book. Very early in the book, Harker was making his journey to Dracula’s castle until he was stopped by the…

A monster can come in any form being good or evil or can even be a human. In Frankenstein, the creature is considered a monster because of how he looks. He starts off as almost a baby and he is molded by the reactions of other people into becoming evil. Count Dracula is a monster because of how he looks and the terrible things he does to the protagonists throughout the novel Dracula. On the contrary to the other two books, the monster in 1984 is not a creature but is a group of evil humans.…

makes the bed and cooks food during Jonathan’s stay in Transylvania, both tasks of which Mina is capable and expected to perform as Jonathans’ wife. Moreover, Dracula calls off the seduction of the three vampire women, exclaiming, “Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!” (Chapter 3). In these scenes, he first assumes the role of the wife, but the word selection in the second suggests that Jonathan Harker “belongs” to Dracula, as a man might own his wife. Dracula blurs gender roles by…

Count Dracula is a very furtive character. He hides away during the daytime, and refuses to tell Harker where he was. He is also very solicitous when he tells Harker not to write letters about anything other than business. He is clearly concerned about what Harker may try to tell others. He does not want to let Harker go. As the book continues, Count Dracula gains more characteristics. In chapter two, readers discover that he is a tall, clean-shaven old man, with a long white mustache. “Within,…

During the novel many scenes with Lucy and Mina sitting in the cemetery take place. The cemetery scenes started when Mina and Lucy arrived at Whitby, and the girls would walk through the cemetery and sit with Mr. Swales daily. Cemeteries are known for the place where the dead is living under ground. Mina spends most of her time while in Whitby at the cemetery reminiscing on events that have happened in the past and waiting for Jonathan to…

she is intended to take after. Even though she still marries and her husband is able to control her, Mina challenges the Victorian ideology that gender should not be fluid. In the novel there is a strong connection to the up and coming suffragette movement at the time. However, the novel was written prior to this movement, leaving the expectations and standards for women incredibly limiting. Mina refers to herself as ‘The New Woman’ which suggests she is a progressive woman, much like the women…