“I do not wish [women] to have power over men: but over themselves.”(Mary W.) Bram Stocker's version of women in Dracula is what the ideal victorian woman should be. Mina and Lucy are the main women in the story with completely different personalities. Lucy is more outgoing and not in the societal norms of the victorian time. Mina, on the other hand, is an ideal woman for any man in the Victorian era. Bram Stocker molded Mina into the perfect woman, she is intelligent, good-natured, and devoted to her husband.
Mina is a very adoring woman. She is so head over heels for Johnathan who is her husband that she devoted her entire life to him. Jonathan went through a lot being Draculas hostage and then turned mortal enemy. In the beginning of the book she talked about how she wonders what it is like to sleep next to a man, even with this suspicion she did not break societal norms and see what its like. She waited like every good woman of that time does. She went to Budapest to elope with
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Mina was a teacher so not only was she everyones dream she was also bringing light into the eyes of women. You can be devoted to your husband and still work. She tested boundaires with her own thinking, she believed women could do anything they put their minds too. She wanted to break the social norms of women but being stay at home house wives. She thought they should be able to take charge in their own life decisions. “Some of the "New Women" writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too! There’s some consolation in that”(77). Mina believed women should be able to do whatever a man could do. She was the beginning of the societal women in victorian