two main female characters, Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. Stoker used these two characters to represent the two different roles of women during this time. Lucy, as the innocence and sexual. Mina represents as the perfect Victorian woman. As she dutifully studies and helps her husband, Jonathan Harker. On the other hand, Lucy is represented as the way woman if they lust too much in society in the late 19th century. In this essay I will discuss the roles that Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra have in Dracula
Mina clearly demonstrates her awareness and knowledge of the New Woman movement; whereby she exhibits her familiarity of the debate by referring to the term “New Woman” twice in her journal entries. Grant Allen’s “purity school” New Woman consisted of female characters that expressed particular interest in social problems while still maintaining their propriety. This sense of knowledge is exhibited when Mina attempts to reassure the oversensitive Lucy as they stopped for a “severe tea” (Stoker 141):
story is a series of documented diaries written by the characters in the story starting out with Jonathan Harker. Johnathan Harker is on a journey on a train to Castle Dracula in Transylvania. The reason why Count Dracula goes to Transylvania is to sign off a real estate transaction with Count Dracula, Count Dracula is selling his castle because he wants to move somewhere else. Johnathan Harker goes on his trip to meet Count Dracula through the countryside on a train. While on the train during one
interpreted as an idealized version of Mina, with the justification that Stoker’s Dracula serves as a guideline for the narratives that gender roles have in vampiric stories. Stoker’s influential novel is the first Westernized construct of a literary vampiric story in Europe and ergo creates the first idea of what aspects a vampire story should have, including the construction of distinctive gender roles. Due to the diffusion of the influence of Dracula in pop culture, Mina becomes an idea of complexity and
of the outside manifests in Dracula, while the protectors of Victorian values become the crew of light. When Dracula preys upon Mrs. Mina Harker, he is defiling the valued Victorian morals, and is manifesting the threat of the outsider. According the Van Helsing, Mina Harker is a light in the darkness, thus a symbol of Victorian purity and goodness. However, when Mina is attacked by the outsider Dracula on her marriage bed, she is corrupted by the
are doing it because they want to see the Dracula get defeated and help save everyone that he has endangered. The main good characters in this book are Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray and Lucy Westerna. What makes Jonathan Harker so good is that he will do almost anything to help stop Dracula. He is Mina Murray’s fiancée and a solicitor who became a prisoner of Dracula but finally ...
dependent of their husbands to provide for them. This novel portrays that completely in accordance to Mina Harker, but Lucy Westenra is the complete opposite. Lucy parades around in just her demeanor as a promiscuous and sexual person. While Mina only cares about learning new things in order to assist her soon-to-be husband Jonathan Harker. Lucy and Mina both become victims of vampirism in the novel. Mina is fortunate but Lucy is not. Overall, the assumption of women as the weaker specimen is greatly
is well presented. “Dracula” was composed in 1897, the time in which psychology was first being introduced. The novel “Dracula” was written into an epistolary formation known as a series of letters, newspaper 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
clear when Lucy addresses Mina: “why are men so noble when women are so little worthy of them?” (Stoker 54). Stoker portrays all of his female characters’ vulnerability against evil when each one of them seems to have a weakness to a male character. Dracula can be analyzed through and against feminist theory by relating the stereotypes of the three female characters: Mina Murray Harker, Lucy Westenra, and the three vampire “brides” of Dracula. When we are first introduced to Mina Murray she is writing
vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well, while Harker is on a train to Transylvania he enters “the east, a section of Europe whose peoples and customs will be for the most part, strange and unfamiliar” (Dracula, 20). Harker arrives at Bistritz on the eve of St. George’s Day, “a night
and Mina Murray Harker arguably play as big a part as Van Helsing or Dracula himself. Lucy is the first person the audience sees fall under the evil, malevolent spell of Count Dracula. As women, she and Mina are the Count’s primary goal. Through them, and through the women of the world in general, the Count intends to spread
two women are Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. These women were presented to serve as Foil characters and show the two types of women: the pure and the vulnerable.Early in to the novel, they were described as the stereotypical perfect women in this era. As the story progresses , significant differences are shown by both women. Lucy will show the difference between which allows Dracula to capture her with his spell first. This will show the similarities and differences of MIna Harker and Lucy Westenra
within us is revealed," is an inspiring quote by Bob Riley that reinforces the mono-myth. Bram Stoker portrays Jonathan Harker in the book Dracula as the "hero". Harker's life will transform as he undergoes his heroic journey. The story begins at status quo. Jonathan Harker lived a normal Victorian lifestyle. His fiancé was a virtuous school mistress named Mina Murray. Harkers occupation as a solicitor was how he was called to his adventure. His firm sent him to Transylvania where he was to conclude
Contemporary history, in the case of England and Ireland, insinuates that conflict is a primary mediator between two countries. With this in mind, outlining the relationship between England and Ireland is simplified. The relationship between these two countries becomes more of struggle between dominance and submission. Hyper-exaggeration would make it appear that England had intentionally colonized Ireland with the intent of ruining their culture. Bram Stoker’s Dracula looks at these three events
Ever since Bram Stoker wrote his entrancing novel people have been adapting it, and the story is one of the most reproduced ideas in history. Each innovation of the novel influences the story for the creators own purpose, and in doing so generates another version of Dracula. Count Dracula has become an infamous character in history, and has been captured in many different mediums, such as the Japanese anime and manga series Vampire Hunter D, which follows Draculas son D in his adventures (Kikuchi)
The Yellow Wallpaper, and Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own, One can see the struggles society went through trying to accept the change. In the novel Dracula there are two main female characters. One’s name is Lucy Westenra, the other Mina Harker. In the Book Lucy represented the traditional Victorian female who was ditsy and frail. Lucy would not partake in the matters of the men and would keep her traditional ways about herself. She needs the help and emotional support of others In the
behaviors from women are viewed as unacceptable. Yet, many of the stories published about vampires diverge from the message that Bram Stoker was trying to make. In the Gothic horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker uses the traumatic experience of Jonathan Harker at Count Dracula’s castle and the invasion of vampires in Great Britain to create a social commentary on the sexual repression occurring
strong subject matter regarding female sexuality and its significance. In Dracula, Bram Stoker compares two different perceptions of Feminism during the rise of woman's movements in the late nineteenth century through the roles portrayed by Lucy and Mina. Stoker connected Dracula and Van Helsing to himself to convey his own opinions with respect to the issue. Stoker's orthodox view on women was clearly seen in his novel. His belief of men being able to control women was depicted through Lucy Westenra
Dracula begins with a diary entry from Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent from England. Mr. Harker is traveling to Transylvania, where he is to confirm a business deal between Count Dracula and his mentor Peter Hawkins. En route to Transylvania, Jonathan comes across many people who caution him about his trip and his host. They cower at the thought of him going into the land, and give him gifts of garlic and a crucifix. At the time, Mr. Harker is unaware of the severity of his troubles. Although
The story of Dracula by Bram Stoker is a story that is revolved around the story and myth that has been told about Dracula. This story is filled with both new and old ideas. It is a novel that revolves around the story and myth of Dracula. It has a sense of old ideas, mixed with a little bit of modernization. There are characters within the story who voice concerns of the new modern developments that new ideas bring while some of the characters want to hold onto the old ideas and completely dread