In the original Bram Stroker’s Dracula does Mina and Dracula ever have a love connection?
Or is it all mind control?
Talking about the NOVEL not the movie, although I do enjoy that movie also.
In my opinion, no.
mina is somewhat more instrumental in the book than the movies on killing him by memorizing the train schedules and handling the administration of the group of vampire hunters which allows them to get the caslte before dracula does and kill him
plus her reactions to being bitten or not pleasant and while erotic she is not described as enjoying being forced to drinkhis blood. (unless the image of a cat being forced to drink sour milk is a romantic anology these days)
I believe Bram Stoker had Dracula portrayed as the devil (this was not the age of misunderstood characters when he wrote this) not much sense to make a love connection to the devil
however, modern culture wants stuff like this so like the coppola movie, there has been a lot of alterations to the character and relationships (mina being the reincarnation of his first love thing is movie only)
and we modern readers will then go back and reinterpret the ambiguous parts of the book as such, so its eternally debatable
For reference one of the first dracula romance movies was a 1973 movie starring jack palance and this one also used the dracula was looking for his reincarnated love subplot, but the women who was his reincarnated love in that version was Lucy, not Mina. and he only bit Mina as revenge for lucy being killed in that one
May 19th, 2010 at 2:51 am
I absolutely loved this movie. Gary Oldman was a great Dracula. Anyhow, I personally think that there was a love connection. I think that because it explains how Mina was so sad when she found out that Dracula had died (even though he hadn’t) so she killed herself. The common theme is supposed to be that she loved him so much she wanted to be with him, no matter if that meant she had to die, she couldn’t live with her grief. I do believe they were love & had a love connection.
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May 19th, 2010 at 3:15 am
In my opinion, no.
mina is somewhat more instrumental in the book than the movies on killing him by memorizing the train schedules and handling the administration of the group of vampire hunters which allows them to get the caslte before dracula does and kill him
plus her reactions to being bitten or not pleasant and while erotic she is not described as enjoying being forced to drinkhis blood. (unless the image of a cat being forced to drink sour milk is a romantic anology these days)
I believe Bram Stoker had Dracula portrayed as the devil (this was not the age of misunderstood characters when he wrote this) not much sense to make a love connection to the devil
however, modern culture wants stuff like this so like the coppola movie, there has been a lot of alterations to the character and relationships (mina being the reincarnation of his first love thing is movie only)
and we modern readers will then go back and reinterpret the ambiguous parts of the book as such, so its eternally debatable
For reference one of the first dracula romance movies was a 1973 movie starring jack palance and this one also used the dracula was looking for his reincarnated love subplot, but the women who was his reincarnated love in that version was Lucy, not Mina. and he only bit Mina as revenge for lucy being killed in that one
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