Mina Harker

Domestic Abuse -Carmilla Domestic abuse is not necessarily termed as domestic violence. This is because domestic abuses in relationships occur in cases where one person in an intimate marriage or relationship attempts to control and dominate the other person for one purpose only; that is to gain and maintain complete control over them. Those in control use the mechanisms of inflicting fear, shame, guilt, or even intimidation to wear down their victims and keep them in their dominance. This…

she wants to keep her status and be rich. The characters in Dracula, especially the females, conform to society as they do not meddle in other people’s business and the men go out to work. There were no women doing jobs other than secretaries, like Mina and all the doctors and lawyers were men. In both of these novels, the literary expectations were not conformed to as both Wuthering Heights…

The use of drugs throughout the Victorian era could have influenced the imaginations of the authors and the mental state of characters. In the Victorian era, drugs such as marijuana, opium, morphine and cocaine, were very big in society. According to the article, “Victorian Drug Use” by Dr. Andrzej Diniejko, “Dangerous drugs were commonly used for making home remedies and less frequently as a recreation for the bored and alienated people. The recreational use of opiates was popular particularly…

significantly differs from the above-mentioned examples of female predators. When the reader acquaints her, she is a human being – attractive, beautiful, fairly innocent and probably superficial but certainly not evil. One gathers that she is a close friend of Mina Murrey, albeit their strikingly different attitudes toward life and love – Lucy is adored by three men and her greatest bother appears which one to choose as a husband. The affairs get truly complicated when one discovers that Lucy…

Every one knows the tail 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 throucth the agege and with every generation that passes by we all add or reinvent the legendary tail of vampires. For ensample the story of the original vampire Dracula originated. In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vlad Tepes- vald…

Throughout the novel, Stoker makes references to modern conveniences for instance Dr Steward maintains his journal using a phonograph, which was considered new and expensive during the time of Dracula's writing, even Mina Murray is shown using modern technology by typing her letters on a type writer. Both instances give the novel a sense of credibility, since it seems that everybody in England is trying to walk into the future of progress as well as advancement. Even though the novel begins in a…

As Jonathan Harker states; “It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?” (Stoker 2). Stoker mentions trains frequently throughout the story due to their modernity. Dr Seward’s diaries are all kept in…

Many people often applaud the idea of freedom of choice and expression as it stands as one of the cornerstones of individuality. However, the negative effects of acting on one’s desires are often overlooked. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Stoker explores the idea that freedom of expression does not exist as an exclusively positive idea through the actions of the characters. Throughout the novel, the vampires continually act on their desires and wants while the protagonists act on their duties and…

Kassandra Valle Jones 1 Dracula Essay 27 December 2014 Christian Tradition in Dracula In Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, Dracula published in 1897, Christianity is often portrayed through a positive light. Corresponding to most gothic/horror based literature books; many of them have Christian symbolism. The actions taken by the vampire Dracula are faintly similar to many features of Christianity, yet they are metaphorically/darkly misleading. If count Dracula is meant to symbolize the devil…

with Lucy, but wistfully not chosen by the woman he loves. Both of these men lose the women they love. Alexis Jacknow, Mina Murray, is another character that is affected by the conflict that Dracula causes. She is the second woman to be drawn towards Dracula. She escapes his cold grasp, but not before she gets herself and almost everyone else killed. Her husband Jonathan Harker played by Michael Kirby also almost dies because he is repeatedly fed on by Dracula’s current dead wives. All these…