Mina+Murray+(2)

//** MINA MURRAY/HARKER **// KRISTINA BURDETT, SHAWN HUGHES, AND SPENCER FLINT **Who was Mina Harker?:** She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress (teaching etiquette and decorum) who is engaged to Jonathon Harker, and friends with Lucy Westnera. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year when schools would have closed for the summer. After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Count Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Budapest and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatic encounter and the two returns to England as husband and wife. Back home, they learn that Lucy has died from a mysterious illness stemming from severe blood loss as the result of repeated visits from some unknown blood-drinking animal, — the animal, they learn, was none other than Dracula taking a different shape.

media type="youtube" key="q-5teAs5Bk4" height="385" width="480" media type="youtube" key="OFeXBOJyNNs" height="385" width="480" Mina Murray is spiritually strong, pure of heart, resourceful and intellectually gifted beautiful young woman. She is Jonathan Harker's fiancee and best friend of Lucy Westenra, the count's first victim. Mina works as a schoolmistress, but eventually victimized by Dracula herself. Mina is in many ways the heroine of the story, embodying purity, innocence, and Christian faith-virtues she maintains despite her suffering at the vampire's hands. She later help Van Helsing and the other to track Dracula to his castle.
 * What was her role in the novel? : ** In the novel Mina is the finance of Jonathon Harker. Mina Murray is the ultimate Victorian woman. Van Helsing’s praise of Mina testifies to the fact that she is indeed the embodiment of the virtues of the age. She is “one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble. . . .” Mina stands as the model of domestic propriety, an assistant schoolmistress who dutifully studies newfangled machines like the typewriter so as to be useful to her husband. Unlike Lucy, she is not most noteworthy for her physical beauty, which spares Mina her friend’s fate of being transformed into a voluptuous she-devil.