Mina Murray Character Analysis

Is Mina Murray an ideal example of a Victorian woman and New woman? Sure, she is. Mina has all the qualities that a Victorian woman should have. There are certain characteristics a woman must have in order to me an ideal Victorian woman. “ The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me as thought she would detain me” (Stoker, 248). Mina loved Jonathan like a loyal woman. She wanted to spend all her time with him, which tells us how loyal she is. For a woman it was very important to be pure and caring towards her family. Mina looked after Jonathan, her fiancée all the time. She made sure he was safe, like a caring woman would. Mina was a motherly figure, since she took care of everyone like a woman would do to her child.
“We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man’s head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that someday may lie may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my won child” (Stoker, 214).
Mina brought out the vulnerability in people, and supports them. Mina praises people for their good nature and courage just like a mother would do to her child. These traits show how Mina would be a great mother and will give her best to make her family feel supported. After Lucy’s death when Holmwood and Quincey were mourning about her death, Mina was there to provide comfort to them. She supports everyone like a mother would do to her child. “We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them, and we wept openly” (Stoker, 287). Mina held everyone together during Lucy’s death and also just dealing with Dracula. She asked them to kill her before she becomes a vampire, which brought everyone into tears, which shows how much respect they all hold for her, because of just the amazing person she is. “ I would haves screamed out, only I was paralyzed… he spoke in a sort of keen, cutting, whisper, point as he spoke to Jonathan: -
Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes” (Stoker, 267). Mina was loyal to her man, and it mattered to her more than anything. She was more loyal than any other character in the novel. When Dracula threatened to kill Jonathan if she made any sound, she risked her own soul to protect Jonathan. A lot of women weren’t faithful and had affairs and Mina, didn’t want to be one of them. Mina at one point also says; that she would rather die then betray the man of her life. You know you are doing something right when even the people around you think that you’re an ideal Victorian woman. Mina is virtuous, and helps out her team to find Dracula.