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Mina Harker
- 'she has a man's brain'
- suggsts she is more clever
than the stereotypical
woman
- knowlege based mainly on facts
- Can be viewed both positively
and negatively. Insults women
but also allows for
proto-feminists within the
novel. Suggests comment is
due to the repressive social
conventions of the time
- suggsts she is more clever
than the stereotypical
woman
- 'she is one of God's
women ... so true, so
sweet, so noble'
- religion
- Connection:
Duchess of
Malfi - 'noble'
- 'Mina indeed acts and is
treated as both the saint
and the mother' - Phillis.
A. Roth
- Mina's sexual behaviour fits in with traditional societal norms. - Kathryn Boyd
- religion
- 'I felt an infinite pity for him,
and opened my arms
unthinkingly'
- motherly nature
- Inherent kindness
- 'Lucy and Mina are essentially the same figure: the mother' - Phillis, A. Roth
- motherly nature
- 'I should never forgive myself if any act of
mine, were it even a negative one, brought
harm on poor dear Lucy.'
- Very forgiving
- strong friendship
- self -sacrificing
- ideal characeteristic of a women during that time
- 'The power of love manifests
itself in self-sacrifice' - David
Gates
- ideal characeteristic of a women during that time
- Very forgiving
- 'I shall be glad as long as I live that even
in that moment of final dissolution, there
was in the face a look of peace, such as I
never could have imagined might have
rested there.'
- sees the good in everyone
- Similar to smile on the woman's face
in The Bloody Chamber. Death
produces contentment in everyone
- sees the good in everyone
- "There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights."
- From Van Helsing
- From Van Helsing
- "We need have no secrets amongst us; working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be
stronger than if some of us were in the dark."
- Hamartia
- Group morality - union
- working together
- Hamartia
- "The world seems full of
good men-- even if there
are monsters in it."
- 'The virtuous characters in
Dracula have the power of
love...which sustains them
when in distress' - David Gates
- 'For Mina...all the men become her sons' - Phillis. A. Roth
- 'The virtuous characters in
Dracula have the power of
love...which sustains them
when in distress' - David Gates
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