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    A Good Or Evil?

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    Stoker assist the reader in categorizing each character as good or evil. The first character that represents the ideal woman is Mina Murray that is later Mina Harker. During the Victorian Era, women were supposed to be pure and the perfect example of the typical wife. Mina was a perfect representation of the Victorian women. She was very supportive to her loved ones. Mina went out of her way to provide the safety and are for her husband, Jonathan. “I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I

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    however, in the movie, he meets Mina in the daytime and it does not harm him (Bram Stoker’s). Then, in the novel, Dracula is a purely evil, terrifying blood hungry monster that wreaks havoc on anyone he meets and feels the need to take life or end life with his arch nemesis being with anyone who wants to preserve life (Stoker). But in the movie when he meets Mina on the streets of London, he pursues a courtship with her and he begins to develop feelings for Mina (Bram Stoker’s). When he proclaims

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    however, in the movie, he meets Mina in the daytime and it does not harm him (Bram Stoker’s). Then, in the novel, Dracula is a purely evil, terrifying blood hungry monster that wreaks havoc on anyone he meets and feels the need to take life or end life with his arch nemesis being with anyone who wants to preserve life (Stoker). But in the movie when he meets Mina on the streets of London, he pursues a courtship with her and he begins to develop feelings for Mina (Bram Stoker’s). When he proclaims

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    story begins with a lawyer named Jonathan Harker, who is trying to finalize selling a house to Count Dracula. Plans start to fail when Jonathan realizes that Dracula is a vampire. When the plans concerning Dracula’s estate are finalized and Jonathan escapes out of Dracula’s grasp, Dracula then begins to create trouble in London. There, he starts to intervene into Mina’s life, Jonathan’s soon-to-be wife. Dracula attacks Lucy, Mina’s best friend,

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    version of the Count, who Harker describes as a monster will wants to “satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless” (Stoker 53) Another difference that is different in Dracula’s film version is how he is killed. In the book, Harker slits his throat after a climatic chase and battle, and immediately turns to dust (Stoker 325). This battle still occurs in Coppola’s version; however, he is eventually killed by Mina and the act is seen as

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    Mina Change In Dracula

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    duration of the book? Dracula Mina is a character from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1). My feelings towards her changed a lot during the duration of the book. She used to be very worried for her fiancée, Jonathan Harker (1), which made me think that she is very dependant on him. I thought of her as a girl that would be dependant on the male and herself would stay at home and do near to nothing. For that reason, I didn’t like her as much as I did the other characters. Mina talked and acted like a very

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    Mina Murray is Jonathans’ fiancee and later into the novel they wed, Mina is the heroine she is presented as a practical woman, working as a school teacher, the reader may relate to her personally through personal experience. Mina during the novel is victimised by dracula, Mina represents to the reader purity, innocence and religious faith .Slowly the relationships between the characters become evident we find Minas’ bestfriend Miss Lucy Westenra, Is the counts

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    voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal..........." Jonathan describes her as been voluptuous, a word that can be used or interpreted as something which he desired. Mina

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    Can I Be You Dracula?

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    Can I Be You Dracula?      Have you ever caught yourself amidst a fantasy? One where you hold all the power? Where you are the epitome of everything and anything everyone around you want to be? Where these very same people who revere you, feare you because you are what they want to be? In this fantasy, you have no conscious, no morals, no ethics, and no values- you are carefree. You do as you please when you deem it so, and no one will say a word, because you are you, and

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    the movie, he meets Mina in the daytime and it does not harm him (Bram Stoker’s). Nevertheless, in the book Dracula is a pure evil, terrifying blood hungry monster that wreaks havoc on anyone he meets and feels the need to take life or end life with his arch nemesis being with anyone who wants to preserve life (Stoker). But in the movie when he meets Mina on the streets of London, he pursues a courtship with her (Bram Stoker’s). Then Dracula begins to develop feelings for Mina, so when he proclaims

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