Mina Harker

Dracula tells the story of Jonathan Harker (Yosvani Ramos), who travels to Transylvania to settle a transaction with a nobleman, Count Dracula, over the purchase of property in England. As demonstrated in the first act, Harker’s visit to Transylvania haunts him with recurring nightmares as he awakes in the sanatorium in shear terror wrapped in his wife’s arms. In the second act, the audience is introduced to Lucy (Chandra Kuykendall), a friend of Harker’s wife Mina, who is so effortlessly seduced by

time Protagonist: The protagonist in the book Dracula is Mina Murray Harker. Mina is Jonathan Harker’s fiancé and is Lucy's best friend. Jonathan Harker is the traveling sales agent, Lucy is Dracula first victim. In the end Lucy is then victimized by Dracula herself. Antagonist: The antagonist in the book Dracula is Count Dracula. Dracula plays the biggest part in the book he is a vampire that lives in a hidden castle and when Jonathan Harker and his fiancé go there they are then but and turned into

try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. I shall take some of the gold with me, lest I want it later. I may find a way from this dreadful place.” (Stoker 59). One may also observe the complete distraught the Count reeks on Harker. Mina’s diary reveals that he “raved of dreadful things,” (Stoker 116). Lucy Westenra is affected at great lengths also. Dracula causes her horrible nightmares, and transforms her dreams into “a presage of horror,” (Stoker 138). Eventually the Counts

characters development but their fate as well.. One major example of this Mina Harker, who is not only an ideal Victorian woman but also a modern one. This leading lady exhibits many Victorian and “modern” characteristics. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mina Harker portrays the ideal Victorian woman while still creating an image of the “modern woman” with her many skillful characteristics. To begin with, the characteristics that make up Mina are in fact Victorian aspects. Before Mina’s characteristics are analyzed

Sigmund Freud’s essay “The Uncanny” theorizes the duality of certain themes common in gothic literature as strange and frightening yet familiar, further explaining that the “uncanny effect is produced by effacing the distinction between imagination and reality.” (Freud pg.396) Bram Stoker 's, Dracula, captures the thematic zeitgeist of gothic Europe; the repression and trappings of a rigid and formal society masking the carnal and base desires of the population at large. Freud 's analysis of the

example, in Dracula, when Jonathan Harker sleeps in a room that Dracula did not assign him, he is trapped with three women in the parlor, and he believes he is going to die. “At least God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters…. At its foot a man may sleep—as a man” (Stoker 57). Perhaps, Jonathan believes that if the three women victimize him, it would make him less of a man that he is. Another example is the mention of the “New Women” when Lucy and Mina were going a walk: “I believe we should

Mina Murray is the fiancée of Jonathan Harker. She is portrayed as a good character in the book because she is shown as a really kind hearted and vivacious school mistress that always seems and is innocent and helps in anyway that she is able too. Mina is Lucy Westerna’s best friend and she is a very intelligent and resourceful young woman who eventually leads Dr. Van Helsing’s

Three themes that present themselves throughout the book are the theme of Christian Redemption, science and technology, and sexual expression. Christian Redemption is shown in many ways throughout the book. Very early in the book when Jonathon Harker is making his journey to the Count's castle he makes a stop where he is given crucifixes. The people who give them to him tell him how they will

acceptable exploration of repressed sexual desire was through a book that upholds the Christian belief of sexuality’s corruptive effects on society. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a gothic, horror novel, Dracula, a vampire from Transylvania, preys on Mina Harker, a devoted Christian and intelligent woman, and Lucy Westenra, an innocent, young woman pursued by three suitors, by luring them and sucking their blood; the women and their suitors form a gang of vampire fighters who track and eventually kill

The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, is a horror story that involves a group of male protagonists, Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, Dr. John Seward, an asylum doctor and Dr. Van Helsing, a scientist, who are out to kill The Count as they fear he may bring more tragedy to their homeland. Before all this chaos, it starts off with Jonathan going to Transylvania to help Dracula with some real estate business. On his journey and stay at the castle, he experiences strange and odd things. He soon finds out that