Dracula Vs Mina

Dracula is a vampire who has been alive for hundreds of years that keeps himself alive by sucking blood from live victims. The character was made by the author Bram Stoker in the novel Dracula. In the novel, Dracula is of course the bad vampire person who would stop at nothing to be with Mina, a woman, who looks like his dead wife. The protagonist is a young man from England, Jonathan Harker, who is engaged to Mina he is sent to Transylvania to finalize the deal in England to Count Dracula. Once Jonathan learns about what is going on, he and his five friends try to bring an end to Dracula. The 1992 film “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” is an adaptation of the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dracula is not the usual monster movie you would expect

The character of Mina Murray, excellently played by Winona Ryder, is a helpful and wanted person. In the new version there is a great focus on the sexuality of the female that would have never been acceptable in old England. In the novel Mina's character is much more acceptable. She was truly the picture perfect Victorian lady. Mina seems to want to help

Her desire to be a help to her future husband, who is missing in the film due to its inaccurate portrayal of her as a passionate woman instead of an intellectual woman who actually solves the mystery surrounding Dracula which is lost in the film. This presents a problem for Francis Ford Coppola's, the director of this love story so he puts in a bigger role into Anthony Hopkins character, Dr. Van Helsing, stating how “Dracula can move about during the day but his powers are weaker” What is similar is his ability to be a shape shifter. Dracula appears as an old man, a young man, a wolf, a werewolf, mist, and a devil like creature. (In the novel he also appears as a bat.) His vision onto the train that Jonathan Harker was on, his ability to see what is going on hundreds of miles away, and his ability to control the minds of others appear as the presence of Dracula is as described in the novel. Francis Ford Coppola tried his best to keep the description of Dracula’s physical appearance taking great detail in his size, eyes, palms, and fingernails. The only difference is that Dracula in the novel always wears black clothes. “The count was as black as night” (page 66.) In an attempt to make Dracula's character more believable to modern audiences,