Mina Harker

homosexuality. The relationship between Dracula and Harker, though benign, is “clearly” one that is “highly eroticized” (McCrea, 255). Shifting the focus of the text to the brief cohabitation of these two male characters, Stoker analyses the threat of homosexuality. When Jonathon Harker awakes after he had “slept only a few hours” his first night in Transylvania, he is almost immediately greeted by “a hand on” his “shoulder” (Stoker, 36). Because Jonathon Harker is in the bedchambers provided to…

The element of fear represents a complex series of both abstract and concrete ideals which depicts the nature of cultural anxiety. This entity, demonstrate the tangible factor which suppresses the central essence of a character through the use of extraordinary terror. The product fosters this component that arouses the danger of fear in human. The manner of irrational factor overwhelms the natural state of stability by manipulating the boundaries of security. Bram Stoker 's Dracula serves as an…

Once Harker escaped and arrived safely home with his new wife, the count seizes the opportunity to use both his time and means to toy with these mere mortals, to the point of insanity. “Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?” (Stoker 30). The boyar Count Dracula signifies the cold, adverse characteristics of an immoral conqueror, only out for his own interests as his violent ancestors in their Turkish wars. As Harker and his…

engage in the question of women's role in a largely patriarchal society? What about work and career? What about sexuality and desire? What about marriage and childbearing? The women that are introduced to the readers of the novel are Lucy Westenra, Mina Murray, Dracula's three sisters and Lucy's mom Mrs. Westenra. As a writer Bram Stoker "did not ignore the budding influence of the turn-of-the-19th-century feminism movement" (Stoker 12-6210). Women at that time were gearing up a fight to be…

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bram Stoker’s Dracula were written three centuries apart in vastly different social climates. Macbeth was born from the beginning the English renaissance, as King James took the throne after the long reign of “The Virgin Queen,” Elizabeth I.. Dracula was written during the tail end of the Victorian era, a time of rampant social anxiety and unrest stemming from the Industrial Revolution and new ideological movements such as women’s suffrage. Despite the differing…

the blood of our brave heroine and forces her to drink from him, Mina Harker refuses to go to her husband feeling unworthy of his love. “Unclean, unclean! I must touch or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may have most cause to fear” (307). Stoker did not have a vampire that fell in love; instead he had a vampire that stole all the goodness from everyone. Dracula tainted Mina, because of this she no longer feels worthy of her husband’s…

depravity and socially imposed morality—to which, depravity emerges victorious. In addition to this, vampire blood itself parallels to the blood of Christ. Just as one may be gravitated to the prospect of salvation, Mina cannot withhold her insatiable magnetism to depravity. In the novel, Mina drinks directly from Dracula, and in doing so, accelerates her transformation. She allows her inner sin to take hold, and partakes…

Supernatural themes within Gothic texts are designed to push against the common way within society in order to be relevant and convey a message. Throughout history, the human race has taken many different paths and embraced many different beliefs. Three of these beliefs that have been incredibly influential in the past three centuries are: neoclassicism, romanticism and Victorianism. In each of these historical periods, gothic literature and by extension the supernatural, acted as a rejection of…

symbols used in Dracula to reflect the presence of religion which are the crucifix and the Host or the “Catholic communion wafer” (Stoker 324). In their articles, Bowels and Starrs show that Van Helsing represents Catholicism while Dr. Seward and Harker represent Protestantism who later start to believe in Catholicism. Starrs also claims that Renfield, although not directly stated in the novel, is a Catholic (3). He proves this by referring to Deuteronomy 12:23 (Stoker 322) where it says that…

Dracula is a classic horror novel that sparked a huge interest in a brand-new genre. Currently, the world is used to seeing romantic vampires fighting against werewolves for the love their life. Instead of fearing vampires people love them and have dreams of dating a vampire. However, I believe that vampire genre was always one filled with romance, and even the famous Dracula spoke of intense love. Dracula a book about horror and gruesome death is largely affiliated with many sexual innuendos…