Dracula The New Woman Analysis

Societies are always changing with the ideas and experiences lived by people. Dracula was written in a period where cultures were mixing, bringing new ideas into London. New ideas can bring the best or worst of people, which is why changes is either embraced or fought against. In this Victorian time, the roles of women and men are well defined by the expectations society has for them. Woman were expected to stay within certain boundaries; stepping out of this constriction would be consider improper. Woman in the Victorian era were believed only to desired to be daughters, wife, or mothers. Woman in the story were moving toward the idea of the “new woman”, which allowed certain freedoms for a woman. These freedoms were highly feared by men because women were no longer satisfied in varies aspects of their lives. “The New Woman is an eccentric with no relation to the collective movement feminism was rapidly becoming”. (preface xi)
These two Characters are examples of the “New Woman” in the Victorian period. Lucy unconsciously desires the sexual freedom which is offer with the “New Woman”. This is expressed when she hopes for the ability to marry more than one men, she hopes that she would be allowed to marry as many as she desires. Secondly, she also yearns or hopes that one day a woman will be able to sleep with a man before getting marry. Finally, she is embracing and loving all the attention she gets from men. These details explain the unconscious, and hopes of the “new woman”, unknowingly. Mina, in the other hand, works and hopes to be a better woman, but her motive for this is to help Johnathan, once they get marry. Mina is developing the idea of a woman who is better prepared in the work force, but with the main goal being a good, and useful woman. Mina has skills in the type writing, which could allowed her to find a job in an office, yet she is an assistant for a