Mina Harker

clippings, and diary entries. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, travels to Transylvania to presume a real estate transaction with the Count Dracula. Amongst his arrival he suspects peculiar activities occurring. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” symbolizes the functions of the human mind and how paranoia affects characters, which marks the beginning of the psychological era. A severe economic depression, as well as the beginning of psychology as a social science,

with it the contentious idea of an empowered woman, the “New Woman,” a woman who aspires to be educated as well as sexually and economically independent. Stoker gives a contrasting view of this notion in “Dracula.” While the main characters, Lucy and Mina, are clearly opposite in personality, they are both portrayed as unequal, defenseless objects that are to be protected and desired. However, one woman’s fate is determined by her weakness, while the other is determined by her strength. Lucy

Stoker during the late 1800’s. The book starts out with Jonathan Harker, who is a smart young business man, who wants to travel to Count Dracula for a business ordeal. Many locals from the European area warned Jonathan about Count Dracula, and would offer him crosses and other trinkets to help fend against him. Mina, who is at the time Jonathans soon to be wife, visits to catch up with an old friend named Lucy Westenra. Lucy gives Mina an update on her love life telling her how she’s been proposed

Early on in the novel, he highlights the differences in the the personalities and situations of the two women. An analysis of Mina as a foil character to Lucy, or vice versa, reveals Stoker’s desire to co-opt, on behalf of the above mentioned status quo, certain attributes of the victorian “New Woman” while condemning others. Via the correspondence of these two friends, Stoker

with me.” (Stoker, 1993:55). Although the female vampires initially resist Dracula’s power, they eventually succumb to his authority and leave Jonathan Harker alone. The construction of the female vampires also opposes the construction that we have of women of the time when the novel was written. W are sown through the descriptions of Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra and also from Jonathan Harker’s thoughts on the female vampires and other women he encounters, that the women of the time when this novel

be compared and as well contrasted today are Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra. These two women are immensely alike in so many ways in the beginning of the novel. They begin the story on the same path, and Lucy begins to wander into a new lifestyle and begins thinking differently than she did at the beginning, while Mina remains who she is throughout the story. Mina Murray is a very pure Victorian woman who is very close friends with Lucy Westenra. Mina begins the story as being a pure woman who is

the Harkers, Jonathan and Mina go to live with Seward at the asylum for a bit. Mina types up Seward's written accounts of the killing of Lucy. Seward reads over Jonathan's journal. He finds out that lives next to Dracula! The group wonders if Dracula's closeness in relation to Renfield is what causes the sudden changes in his behavior. This would also explain the incident with the bat on one of Renfield’s escapes. Renfield is very calm currently. Seward says that he appears almost sane. Mina asks

characters in the book. Jonathan Harker is a young English lawyer, who has traveled to see a castle. Little did he know, that trip to the castle was going to open many secrets. This story is written from a narrative point of view. The book contains dairy entries which are written by the characters in the book. Other important characters are Mina Murray who is introduced as the fiancé o Johnathan Harker eventually they get married. Lucy Westenra a very good friend of Mina, John Seward a talented young

inferiority. Through a true feminist’s eyes, this analysis can clearly be understood by highlighting the actions of Mina and Lucy, the obvious inferior females in the book. Through Stoker’s complete and utter manipulation of Mina and Lucy, he practically forces the reader to analyze

talk and be open about. Although, sex is more accepted nowadays it is still something you usually do not discuss. So I believe what drew a large crowd in for Dracula was the fact that it went against the norms of society. For example, the Jonathan Harker describes the encounter with the three sisters as "ecstasy" (Stoker 42). He said that they had