In Stoker's original novel, Mina recovers from the vampire's curse upon Dracula's death and lives on with her husband, Jonathan. However, in some media, Mina is killed at some point in the story, while in others, she becomes a full vampire and keeps her powers after the death of Dracula.
Not only does Mina utilize her sexual prowess to seduce and stun Van Helsing as he races to destroy Dracula's castle, but her love for Dracula literally gives her the ability to summon storms to block the sun.
Lucy is turned into a vampire by the Count and killed, while Mina is able to resist, and is eventually returned to her normal state. Both characters are caught between the New Woman and the Victorian ideals. For many readers, Lucy's desire for sexual fulfillment dooms her to be turned into an evil vampire.
Dracula bites Mina Harker repeatedly and then forces her to drink his blood, which results in her being transformed into a vampire. However, she fights this transformation and is ultimately freed after Dracula's death.
Mina plays a pivotal role in the plot to defeat Dracula, contributing skills and insights that complement those of her male counterparts. Not only does she express an earnest desire to be “useful” to her companions, but Mina repeatedly advances their cause through her foresight, ingenuity, and resourcefulness.
Mina and Lucy ¦ Feminism in Dracula ¦ A Reader's Guide ¦ Ep.4
Does Dracula seduce Mina in the book?
In these chapters, Mina stands ready as the count's next victim. When she writes that “sleep begins to flirt with me,” we know that it is Dracula—not sleep—that is seducing her during the night.
With Mina, Dracula is found forcing Mina to suck Dracula's own blood from a cut in his abdomen. This, also highly sexually-suggestive, creates a bond between the two that can only be broken by Dracula's true death.
Which is exactly what Van Helsing and his Vampire Killers do to Lucy in the film. Lucas was spot on. The rules were right there on the screen. In order for Mina to give Dracula peace, she has to cut off his head with the Bowie knife she had plunged through his heart.
Dracula forces Min to drink his blood in an effort to connect him to her and to overpower her with the intentions of killing her. Why it matters: This scene demonstrates the lack of identity Dracula has as well as the control he fights for.
In addition, he has grown so accustomed to being a master in his own land that he dreads going to England and suddenly being a nobody. For that reason, he wants Harker to remain in the castle as long as possible in order to perfect Dracula's English pronunciation.
In Stoker's original novel, Mina recovers from the vampire's curse upon Dracula's death and lives on with her husband, Jonathan. However, in some media, Mina is killed at some point in the story, while in others, she becomes a full vampire and keeps her powers after the death of Dracula.
She is a paragon of virtue and innocence, qualities that draw not one but three suitors to her. Lucy differs from her friend in one crucial aspect, however—she is sexualized. Lucy's physical beauty captivates each of her suitors, and she displays a comfort or playfulness about her desirability that Mina never feels.
Largely Lucy is chosen for her beauty and purity which directly counters the ideas of vampirisms. Choosing her serves as a symbol of corruption of good, and her repressed sexual desires further fuel Dracula to make her his first English victim.
In Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula," the main character Jonathan Harker is not turned into a vampire by Count Dracula. Throughout the novel, Dracula is depicted as a vampiric predator who seeks to turn new victims into vampires in order to expand his power and influence.
Jonathan Harker in Dracula. His hair turns from dark brown to white while listening to his wife Mina's account of Dracula assaulting her to turn her into a vampire. Kaneki Ken from the manga and anime series Tokyo Ghoul, after undergoing days of torture at the hand of Jason, his naturally black hair turns stark white.
After Dracula's box is finally loaded onto a wagon by Romani men, the hunters converge and attack it. After routing the Romani, Harker decapitates Dracula as Quincey stabs him in the heart. Dracula crumbles to dust, freeing Mina from her vampiric curse. Quincey is mortally wounded in the fight against the Romani.
Instead, he was constantly fed the empty promise of eternal life and used by Dracula to complete any and every task he placed before him. Eventually, this abuse made way for Renfield to regain his consciousness, which he used to save Mina Harker and defend himself against his master.
None of the romantic scenes between Mina and Dracula appeared in the book either, such as when they meet outside the movie house and when they drink absinthe together. Mina was never intended to be Dracula's love interest; she was madly in love with Jonathan Harker.
Who was Dracula in love with? In most iterations of Dracula, he never indicates he is in love with his brides as their relationship is never specifically explained. However, in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, released in 1992, he does love his first mortal wife Elisabeta.
In Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Mina Harker is described as being a young woman of about 20 years old. This is consistent with her portrayal in most movie adaptations of the novel.
Dracula brutally killed Renfield for his eventual betrayal. Dr. John Seward shares several sets of notes about Renfield, the first set being his initial observations about his patient: Renfield's age according to the novel is 59 years old; this varies depending on the retelling.
At the end of the novel, Jonathan Harker then stabbed Dracula through the throat with a kukri knife and Quincey stabs the Count in the heart with a Bowie knife.
Hoult's character in the movie is the titular "Renfield," who is trying to escape an abusive "work relationship" that he has with his boss, Cage's "Dracula." Renfield eats insects to attain supernatural strength and abilities.
