Lucy & Me
Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker is a fictional character of Bram Stoker's seminal horror novel Dracula. more...
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At the beginning of the story, she is referred to by her maiden name, Mina Murray, but later in the book she marries her fiancé Jonathan Harker, and takes on his last name.
Mina is introduced as an "assistant schoolmistress" who describes herself as "simply overwhelmed with work" for quite a while. She was also practicing shorthand and typewriting. She corresponds with her best friend Lucy Westenra. Her first letter in the novel expresses her hope of seeing Lucy in person again. "I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."
She was finally able to visit Lucy in Whitby on 24 July of that year when schools would have closed for the Summer. "Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever".
Mina is in many ways contrasted to Lucy. Lucy is a vivacious, playful, often silly, upper class girl, while Mina is resolute, reasonable, prudish and lower-middle class. Mina and Lucy symbolise Victorian era womanhood and the sensibility of the age but while Mina stays resolute, Lucy's sexual tendencies are to be her end. Lucy displays much more sexual energy than Mina does.
After her fiancé Jonathan has escaped from Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Transylvania and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatizing encounter and the two return to England as a married couple.
Mina and Jonathan join the coalition around Abraham Van Helsing, who now turn their attentions to dealing with Dracula himself. After Dracula learns of this plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting — and biting — Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, destining her to become a vampire at her death. The only way to forestall this is to kill Dracula first and the rest of the novel deals with the main characters trying to achieve this. Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. Mina uses this connection to track Dracula's movements.
Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by Van Helsing's gang, who manage to kill him just before sundown. As a result, Dracula's spell is lifted and Mina freed from the curse of the vampire.
The book closes with a note about Mina's and Jonathan's married life and the birth of their first-born son, whom they name Quincey in remembrance of their American friend Quincey Morris, who was killed by Dracula's Szgany minions during the final confrontation.
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