Mina Harker

women’s ears. However, Mina breaks from this traditional gender norm toward the end of the novel, once she is given an equal say in the plans and actions of the Crew of Light. Jonathan remarks after once of the crew’s meetings, “I thought that my mind was made up on the subject; but Mina would not listen to my objection. She said that there might be some law matter in which I could be useful,” (Stoker, 335). Here, Mina is directly making a decision for her husband. Mina “would no listen to…

(Armstrong) This strips them of their identities as husband and wife. Mina is also somewhat maternal in her protection of Jonathan. Dracula takes away their identities as a man and as a woman. (Armstrong) He takes away their identities to strip them in every sense of the word. They are now just human beings. Mina might be protective of Jonathon like a mother would be because she has been taking care of him when he just returned from the Carpathians…

Harker’s journal says, “…we swept on our way, now in almost complete darkness; but all was dark” (Stoker 14). In this quote, Harker is sitting in the coach with the other passengers and observing the setting of his surroundings. This describes how…

The power of love Love as an eternal topic has been discussing and praising by the people no matter from old times or modern society. In fact that, there is nobody in this world truly understand what love really is, because love is an emotion that human can create by their hearts, their feelings, and nobody would actually see it because it is formless and invisible; it is so mysterious and unsearchable. Like what Samuel said in his poem “Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing.…

In Dracula, Harker attempts to end his life and announces, "at least God's mercy is better than that of these monsters… Goodbye, all! Mina!" because his paranoia becomes deathly severe (Stoker, 55). Harker compares to someone who suffers from Anorexia that has false perceptions of their body is in denial about the seriousness of their condition. If someone with…

In the Gothic novels, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker and “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson there are several overlapping themes acknowledging and challenging cultural ideas of gender including gender roles, and gender sexuality. Cultural ideas of gender roles and gender sexuality are explored and questioned in both gothic novels; as the both novels, in their own way, challenge the current cultural ideas surrounding boundaries of gender in that place and time that the novels were written…

them. One of the ways Stoker depicts the rejection and, in a way, fear of the New Women, is contrasting them to the conventional noble female characters. This comparison is clearly shown through the example of Mina on one side, and the three Brides of Dracula on the other. Undoubtedly, Mina represents an ideal of a Victorian woman. She is intelligent, noble, innocent, and devoted to her man. Bram Stoker expresses the male point of view on this type of woman when Van Helsing says about…

However due to Lucy’s flirtatious personality implying sexual desires with many of the other male characters, in the movie when she talking about sex with Mina she was curios and excited and what happen to her last night which she was unable to stop thinking about this. Another moment of high sexuality is when Johnathan is seduced by the three-vampire woman who dress in a sexualized manner Dracula comes to…

his fourth thesis Cohen writes that “the monster is difference made flesh” (15). In both the film and the book, the audience can tell that Dracula is different because he lives in a huge spooky, gothic, Transylvanian castle. In the film, Johnathan Harker travels to Transylvania on a business trip to conclude a real-estate…

This is highly evident when the men decide to exclude Mina from discussions about their quest to defeat Dracula in the latter part of the novel because according to Dr. Seward, “Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time, but it is no place…