Mina Harker

Gothic literature originated in the 19th century and was a branch of the larger Romantic Movement. Like the Romantics, Gothic writers embraced the sublime nature and endeavored to evoke deep emotions in their readers. However, their motives were manifested in a fascination with the exotic and eerie human nature and the effects of guilt, evil, isolation and terror on a human being. Authors exploit isolated and grotesque settings, supernatural beings and events, combines romance and horror as well…

brave man send by God. “‘Let us go back to Madam Mina--poor, poor, dear Madam Mina. All we can do just now is done; and we can there, at least protect her. But we need not despair. There is but one more earth-box, and we must try to find it; where that is done all may yet be well’ I could see that he spoke so bravely as he could to comfort Harker” (309). This is one of the examples were the professor uses his authority of the situation to define Mina as poor women. Not poor as in money, but poor…

of Christianity. Dracula’s desire and need for the flesh of blood of humans is an “inversion” of the act of holy Communion. While Communion is largely symbolic, Dracula drinks real human blood, and requires it to extend his physical life. Jonathan Harker, one of the main…

to the idea of motherhood.These ideas can be seen in the virtuous Mina. As she says when talking about Jonathan “I must stop, for Jonathan is waking—I must attend to my husband!” (Stoker 98). Mina does so much for Jonathan. She gives up her brains to give Jonathan everything he pleases, as a admirable Victorian woman. She also leaves behind her best friend, Lucy, to care for her fiance. She later drinks Dracula's blood to save Harker as well. Hr sacrifice and obedience to her role as a women…

fallen under two categories. One being they are the brides of the vampire or the most likely choice that they are his offspring. If true that indeed they possess the genes from Dracula than their killings was very important. Evidence comes in when Harker in his sexual trance he describes that all have "the same nose as him." The twins both deviant and evil had the the very power of taking over others body that their dad possesed. Their sexual hypnotic power over men was the key to Draculas…

his article where young American women were presented with various smells in a romantic setting. and the results were that the various smells were noticed by the young women regardless of the environment (90). This finding made Hensley question why Mina and Lucy did not notice the smell when Jonathan express his reaction towards the smell (90). Hensley concludes that the power of the vampire is…

Everyone knows the tale of the legendary Dracula. The first and the greatest vampire that every existed in the world of fantasy or the real world who really knows? But one thing we do know is that the legend of Dracula has lived on through the ages and with every generation that passes by us all adds or reinvents the legendary tail of vampires. For example the story of the original vampire Dracula by Bram Stocker is said to be inspired by and originated In Romania, because of a young warlord who…

If only he were less awful, Dracula might have been half-decent. Originally published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has become an incredibly well known and beloved classic. Throughout the novel, the title character is used to represent an inversion of typical Christian values, particularly the act of holy Communion. Throughout the novel, this repeated inversion and denial of common Christian beliefs and values is used to present Dracula, and anyone else who lacks Christian beliefs, as “evil,”…

an abandonment of reality as it is so far away from any form of civilization with the sense of ‘others’ and barbarism. The damsels in distress in this tale are Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, it can be speculated that the Three Sisters classifies as well because in the end they are saved from the monsters they have become. However, only Mina remains among the living, despite showing potential as a New Woman, she ultimately conforms to the convention of a Victorian woman whereas Lucy dies due to…

Xenophobia is a deep-rooted fear towards foreigners and the theme of xenophobia is present in the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker. By building on Micheal Kane’s suggestion that Count “Dracula … sucks the very life blood of the community” (Kane 1) and Kane’s remark about hoe the “'outside' becomes the imagined repository of anything deemed undesirable which exists ‘inside’." (Kane 10), I will be discussing Count Dracula’s actions which signify the fear brought by Count Dracula into England.…