Van Helsing puts Mina into a trance for the first time
Scene analysis specific to: Mina
Summary:
After Dracula connects himself to Mina in an effort to control her, Van Helsing and Mina come up with the idea of putting Mina into a trance in order to track Dracula. This trance is a success and everybody realizes that Mina is going to be needed in order to successfully destroy and rid the world of Dracula.
Why it matters:
This scene provides a strong twisted feministic view because it is determined that Mina is going to be needed in defeating Dracula which was very uncommon for the time period considering women were seen as unintelligent beings. However, it also gives Mina an identity a lot more like a males because Mina's usefulness and intelligence is like that of a man's or so that is what society believes in this time period and it is because of those things that Stoker's writing is so beyond his time.
Scene analysis specific to: Mina
Summary:
After Dracula connects himself to Mina in an effort to control her, Van Helsing and Mina come up with the idea of putting Mina into a trance in order to track Dracula. This trance is a success and everybody realizes that Mina is going to be needed in order to successfully destroy and rid the world of Dracula.
Why it matters:
This scene provides a strong twisted feministic view because it is determined that Mina is going to be needed in defeating Dracula which was very uncommon for the time period considering women were seen as unintelligent beings. However, it also gives Mina an identity a lot more like a males because Mina's usefulness and intelligence is like that of a man's or so that is what society believes in this time period and it is because of those things that Stoker's writing is so beyond his time.