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Title: Mina Harker character profile - Dracula, A Level English language and literature, AQA
Description: A comprehensive profile introducing the character of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Includes an introduction to the character, analysis and points where they appear in the novel. This will help your A Level English Language and Literature (AQA) students to make links to other points within the novel in their answers, as well as providing some context.
Description: A comprehensive profile introducing the character of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Includes an introduction to the character, analysis and points where they appear in the novel. This will help your A Level English Language and Literature (AQA) students to make links to other points within the novel in their answers, as well as providing some context.
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Mina Harker character profile
Who?
● Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray) is a young schoolmistress who
aspires to become one of the “lady journalists” which are emerging during the
Victorian era
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● Mina is intelligent and strong-minded, so much so that her male peers
congratulate her on her “man’s brain”
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● As the central female character in the novel, Mina plays an important role
within the crew of light
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Analysis
● Mina, following in the footsteps of Queen Victoria herself, places family and
relationships at the core of her being
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Indeed,
she is willing to drop everything to be with him and does not demand to know
the details of his encounter with Count Dracula
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● This virtue makes Mina the ideal Victorian woman, with a clear reputation
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Her sole purpose it seems is to please men, despite her ability to
adopt new skills easily and academic achievements
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● Due to her status as an icon of goodness and respectability, it is particularly
shocking for the reader when we learn that Dracula has tainted Mina
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Therefore, despite her intelligence and relatively high status, Mina remains a
vulnerable target for Dracula - she has everything to lose
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Whilst her beautiful counterpart
Lucy receives three marriage proposals - and enjoys playing hard to get Mina is entirely devoted to Jonathan and would never risk being called a
whore
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Despite his guilt, he does not
reveal this to Mina, creating a rift in their relationship
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If a woman had an affair
however, divorced or slept outside of marriage she was considered ruined or
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fallen and would have found it almost impossible to remarry a respectable
man
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Mina’s desperation to advance herself suggests that she was the embodiment
of the “New Woman”: a term coined towards the end of the Victorian era to
describe women who were taking advantage of newly available educational
and employment opportunities to break free from the intellectual and social
restraints imposed upon them by a male-dominated society
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Whilst she is
sympathetic towards the New Women of her day, Mina also dissociates
herself from them, perhaps indicating that she will never be able to follow her
dream for fear of tarnishing her reputation
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Whilst Lucy dies in the middle of the novel, Mina does not succumb to
Dracula’s powers
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Indeed, despite Dracula’s control over Mina
she is not portrayed as the “damsel in distress”
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Despite their respect for Mina, the men do not view her as an equal
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Mina has to insist on being informed of their
plans - she is not a weak woman and can handle a challenge
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Mina finds her on their favourite seat near the graveyard
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● After her then-fiance escapes from Castle Dracula, Mina travels to Budapest
to look after him - he is euphemistically suffering from a “brain fever”
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The couple inherit a house in Exeter
from Mr Hawkins - Jonathan’s partner in the law firm - where they receive the
news that Lucy and her mother have died suddenly
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He is shocked and suddenly taken ill, making
Mina concerned
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Her clerical
talents, therefore, help the group to uncover Dracula’s plans
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Mina is fascinated by Renfield, who behaves politely and respectfully
towards her
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This is also the cause of
Renfield’s death, as he sustains a serious head injury due to Dracula’s
powers
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She wakes up lethargic, upset
and pale
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They encounter Mina, restrained by
Dracula, being forced sucking blood from a wound on Dracula’s bosom and
Jonathan lying unconscious
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● The men agree that Mina should “be in full confidence”
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● The men solemnly vow to kill Mina if she becomes a vampire and the group
board the Orient Express
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They learn that
Dracula’s ship is now bound for Galatz and decide to follow him there
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● Van Helsing writes that he and Mina have reached the Borgo Pass but he can
no longer hypnotise her
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Van Helsing
leaves her here
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They force open one of the
boxes and find the Count lying inside
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The couple appear to be
happy and unafflicted by their previous encounters with Dracula
Title: Mina Harker character profile - Dracula, A Level English language and literature, AQA
Description: A comprehensive profile introducing the character of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Includes an introduction to the character, analysis and points where they appear in the novel. This will help your A Level English Language and Literature (AQA) students to make links to other points within the novel in their answers, as well as providing some context.
Description: A comprehensive profile introducing the character of Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Includes an introduction to the character, analysis and points where they appear in the novel. This will help your A Level English Language and Literature (AQA) students to make links to other points within the novel in their answers, as well as providing some context.