Mina Harker

Stoker is about Jonathan Harker, a man who travels to Transylvania to come up with a deal with Count Dracula, who lives in a castle. The Count sees a picture of Jonathan 's soon to be wife Mina, and he tells Jonathan to tell her he will be at the castle longer than expected only to be trapped by Dracula. While Jonathan is trapped in the castle Dracula travels to meet Mina, who falls in love with because of her similarity to his late wife. While Dracula is visiting Mina Jonathan is nearly…

no perspective of Dracula. Mina Harker, the only female to survive the novel, is seen as a diligent middle class Victorian woman. She is dedicated to her friends and fiancé/husband. All she wants to do is wants to help defeat Dracula. However, in Bram Stocker’s Dracula created in 1992 and directed by Francis Ford Coppola is a great example of this major change. Mina is changed so that…

Young and naïve, Harker hastily finds himself a prisoner in Dracula’s castle and barely escapes with alive. He shows a fierce curiosity to find out the true nature of his holder and a strong will to escape. Later, after becoming convinced that Dracula has finally moved to London, Harker becomes a brave and fearless fighter. Mina Murry: Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Mina is a regular young woman who works as a schoolmistress. Eventually she becomes a victim to Dracula, Mina is also the best friend…

Jonathan, Lucy, and Mina as they make encounters with Count Dracula. The rituals and superstitions included in the novel describe traditions and practices used by…

Kristina Walton April 23, 2015 Undercover Mothers The role of women in nineteenth century literature seems pretty basic. The women were to bear children while simultaneously tending to their homes and husbands. Though it seems pretty cut and dry, for women, authors such as Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker played with the idea of a role reversal. In their books Frankenstein and Dracula, many male characters take on female roles. One of the more absurd roles is the idea of male characters as…

blue backlight that shines through the rotating stage as Jonathan Harker moves throughout it creating harsh shadows and silhouettes whilst he journeys on a coach indicated by the sound effects. Following this, immediately after Harker reaches the centre of the stage a thin white light is used to reveal Count Dracula on a raised platform. This helps create the impression that Dracula is stronger and more intimidating than Mr Harker. As the scene progresses, the stage rotates; simultaneous with…

written in the late 19th century which is still widely read and studied by scholars today and includes the discrimination of women at the time is Dracula. Bram Stoker’s tale includes the two main characters Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker who are widely different in personality. While Mina is portrayed showing her strength, Lucy’s life is a tale being portrayed as weak, emotionally and physically. Bram Stoker’s Dracula shows the stereotypical view of the weakness of women in the 1890s through the…

Jordan Bryan Edward Pettit English 210 12 October 2015 When Bram Stoker’s fin de siecle novel, Dracula, was published in 1897, it perfectly illustrated the Victorian cultural anxieties created by the possible collapse of the British empire. Transylvania, literally meaning “through the woods”, is one of two major settings in the classic novel. Transylvania is Dracula’s homeland, where he is an infamous civilian. He is a clever creature, and was a nobleman of great linage. There is a clear…

Chapters One through Eight reveals the progression of Mina Murray, Jonathan Harker’s fiancé, character as well as the theme of gender. As stated in Chapter Five, Mina is an assistant schoolmistress. Unlike Harker, she knows a little about shorthand, but is trying to be caught up to Harker’s level of shorthand and his studies (Stocker p. 67). During the Victorian era it was expected for a man’s wife to be educated and pure. Mina wants to acquire all these things, such as shorthand, to be seen as…

Vampires desire for blood, and humans, pure at heart, desire to end the evil reign of dracula. In the novel, “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker, Mina has the desire to read Jonathan's journal, but at the same time feels an obligation not to read it, these conflicting forces in Mina’s life contribute to a major theme in the book, “Love and Desire.” Mina has conflicting desires in Bram Stoker’s, “Dracula” that contribute to her mind being pulled in opposite ways. Mina’s soon…