Mina Harker

element expelled, and the ordinary world restored.” However, this claim does not fit with a closer examination of the end of the novel and its characters- particularly Quincey Harker.…

When presented with the Labouchere Amendment, Queen Victoria removed the clause about homosexual women as she sniffed “Women didn’t do such things” and so lesbianism never became illegal in Great Britain. It’s an entertaining story and one that fits with the idea that Victorianism is a byword “for a rigorous moralism centred on sexual repression” (A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, P.127), but it’s also not true but a story that began circulating in the 1970s. We don’t know…

Although in Frankenstein Victor is purely the one to blame, in the story Dracula, Jonathan Harker is the character in which the reader feels immense pity for. Jonathan Harker had traveled to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Dracula and even though he felt strange about the whole encounter and Dracula himself, Jonathan blew it off because of his duty to his job. Then Jonathan becomes prisoner, once he escapes he gets extremely ill possibly because of the shock. But, the reason why…

follows the same pattern by addressing the changing social norms pertaining to women. In his novel, Stoker has only a few female characters, but in these characters, one can see the good and dark side of the new woman of the nineteenth century. In Mina Harker, Stoker reveals an example of how the traditional and contemporary can be mixed within one person while in the other women, Lucy and the female vampires, he shows the dark side of the changes in the female society, revealing that the…

These are now well worn stereotypes. While these traits can be found in many of the female characters in novels written during this era, the book Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, deviated from this stereotype. Two of the main female characters, Mina and Lucy, represented the types of women that were known during that time. Comparing…

As the hunt for Dracula, the ill-fated villain of the novel ensues, Mina proves to be an invaluable asset to the team of men who are seeking to destroy Count Dracula. Ms. Harker possesses the qualities of a New Woman by aiding in the process of Dracula’s capture. She logically determines where he is going as he tries to evade them, and how to intercept him. Mr. Healy, a literary writer says, “Mina also uses her logical mind to help anticipate Dracula's movements, guessing that he…

When presented with the Labouchere Amendment in 1885, Queen Victoria refused to sign due to the references to lesbianism saying, “Women didn’t do such things”. It’s an entertaining story and yet, it’s a myth, one that began circulating in the 1970’s (“Background: Myth on Victorian and ban on Homosexuality”), and its popularity continues since it fits with the modern idea of prudish, sexually repressed Victorians. While we don’t know Queen Victoria’s views on homosexuality, we do know she had a…

between Gender and Sex 2 2.1 The Victorian Era and Gender Roles 2 2.2 The Age of the New Woman 3 3. Gender Roles in Dracula 4 3.1 The three Vampire Ladies of Dracula 4 3.2 The Vampire Hunters 5 3.3 The Solicitor Jonathan Harker 6 3.4 The Count and Vampire Dracula 7 3.5 The Development of Women’s Sexuality 9…

the shadow of the vampire are shown topless and bottomless and dancing around which may represent their vulnerability to the male characters in the film. For example, when Max Schreck, who plays Count Orlock in the film, sees a small picture of Mina Harker, who is played by Catherine McCormack, says that she has "a beautiful bosom", which allows the viewers to recognize the intentions and personality traits that the male figured occupy and how they view or treat the women. The males,…

education, its science” (237), which underlines the difference between modern England and old-fashioned, traditional Transylvania. To what extend the modern media, science and technology is used in the novel and how the modern characters like Mina and Jonathan Harker, Dr Seward and Van Helsing are contrary to traditional Count Dracula, will therefore shortly be addressed in the following and more thoroughly in the analytical…