Mina Harker

limits when it comes to humans, seducing them ad ordering them to do anything the vampire wishes. His powers are the main way of interacting between humans since any normal human without duress would see that he is evil. Dracula imprisons Jonathon Harker without him even realizing, he also pushes Harker’s spouse for a drink by using his powers. 8 May. —I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too diffuse. But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is…

The notion of "being damned" is not only linked to Dracula 's taking of Lucy and his biting of Mina, but seen in a larger sense. Dracula represents evil and a sense of the ungodly, while the vampire hunters represent good and the force of righteousness that seeks to stamp out evil. The very idea of being able to demonize or find an embodiment of…

The key factor in this novel is the use of the vampire. Both of the female characters, Mina and Lucy, are rebellious and use their vampire forms as a way to express their New Woman behavior. As they transform into vampires this dual side of them can be shown clearly and the male characters begin to see it throughout the novel. For example when Lucy is in her vampire like state she becomes more flirtatious and request Arthur to kiss her.Dr Seward writes:” Arthur oh my love, I am so glad that you…

Mina experiences a similar double bind but unlike Eustacia, she manages to find a balance between domesticity and the working capabilities of the New Woman. She is first introduced through the eyes of Jonathan Harker, he collects recipes for her, is aware of the pain his “burning desire” for the female vampires would cause and considers her a woman who has “naught in common [with those] devils of the Pit!” (Dracula 48). Harker’s epitome of Mina is challenged by the Mina revealed in her letters…

important findings in history: psychoanalysis, and someone whose studies are immensely portrayed in the novel of Bram Stoker’s: Dracula. The novel is about a man named Jonathan Harker, a lawyer, who unknowingly takes a business trip to the devils house in Transylvania where he is held prisoner by his host: Count Dracula. Harker finally escapes his captor but is very ill and ends up resting in the countryside of Hungary. Meanwhile back in England, Harker’s wife’s friend, Lucy, has become pale and…

had killed many innocents for many years before he targeted Jonathan Harker, who was completely oblivious to the dangers the supernatural could bring at the beginning of the story. Jonathan’s business trip to Transylvania sets the story in motion, and he remains a critical character throughout the novel. Although the book doesn't describe his physical appearance very well it does go into detail about his personality. Harker is a young, white and sophisticated man. Dr.Seward describes him…

The reader experiences the actions in the novel on the basis of diaries, letters and journals written by the characters Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward. No entries are written by count Dracula, he is portrayed by all the other characters. Dracula is the inspiration to many film and other vampire characters. It is said that Stoker read the story about…

Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into the resurrected soul of Dracula’s lost love. This reinterpretation is…

intelligence, so he could finish off his victims with such ease. Dracula may have used his knowledge of hypnotism to attack his victims, but Van Helsing also hypnotized Mina to reveal the whereabouts of Dracula. In this case, it was used as a force of good to locate the Dracula so that he could be destroyed. Dracula already was linked with Mina and by hypnotizing her once more, it revealed some very critical information. Information that inevitably led to his location. This is partially…

Through the first chapters of the book, one of the protagonists Jonathan Harker is able to use vast examples of allusions referring to English author Shakespeare, books like Arabian Nights and Hamlet, and even a specific battle known as the Waterloo battle. Even both at the same time like “Mem., this diary seems horribly like…