Mina Harker
| Mina Harker | |
|---|---|
| Dracula character | |
| Created by | Bram Stoker |
| Portrayed by |
Greta Schröder (Nosferatu) Helen Chandler (Dracula) Melissa Stribling (Horror of Dracula) Maria Rohm (Count Dracula) Penelope Horner (Bram Stoker's Dracula) Judi Bowker (Count Dracula) Isabelle Adjani (Nosferatu the Vampyre) Winona Ryder (Bram Stoker's Dracula) Amy Yasbeck (Dracula: Dead and Loving It) CindyMarie Small (Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary) Stefania Rocca (Dracula) Peta Wilson (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Alexandra Kamp (Dracula 3000) Stephanie Leonidas (Dracula) Zoe Tapper (Demons) Nathalie Fauquette (Dracula, l'amour plus fort que la mort) Victoria Summer (Dracula Reborn) Marta Gastini (Dracula 3D) Jessica De Gouw (Dracula) Olivia Llewellyn (Penny Dreadful) Sarah Gadon (Dracula Untold) |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Miss Mina Murray Madam Mina |
| Species | Human Vampire |
| Gender | Female |
| Spouse(s) | Jonathan Harker |
| Children | Quincey Harker |
| Nationality | British |
Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray) is a fictional character in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.
She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra. She visits Lucy in Whitby on July 24 of that year, when schools would have closed for the summer.
After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Count Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Budapest and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatic encounter with the vampire and his brides, and the two return to England as husband and wife. Back home, they learn that Lucy has died from a mysterious illness stemming from severe blood loss as the result of repeated attacks by an unknown, blood-drinking animal; — the animal, they learn, was none other than Dracula taking a different shape.
It is because of Mina that the party learn of the Count's plans as she is the one who collects the journals, letters, newspaper clippings and fits all of the relevant information regarding the Count together, places them in chronological order, and types out multiple copies, giving them to each of the other protagonists to which the end result is the epistolary novel itself. Mina and Jonathan then join the coalition around Abraham Van Helsing, and turn their attentions to destroying the Count. The party uses this information to discover clues about Dracula's plans, and further investigate the location of the various residences he purchased as a means to track him and destroy him. With each subsequent action the party takes being recorded by the various parties and added to the collection of events surrounding Dracula.
After Dracula learns of this plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting — and biting — Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, dooming her to become a vampire should she die, afterwards killing Renfield and destroying all of the copies of their epistolary except for one which Dr. Seward kept in a safe. The rest of the novel deals with the group's efforts to spare her this fate by tracking and attempting to kill Dracula. When Van Helsing attempts to bless her by placing a wafer of sacramental bread against her forehead, it burns her flesh leaving a scar proving that Dracula has made her unholy. Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. Mina then uses her inherent telepathic abilities to track Dracula's movements under the hypnotism of Van Helsing. Dracula later flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by the entire group who split up. As Van Helsing takes Mina with him on his journey to Dracula's castle to slay the brides of Dracula, the rest of the party attempt to locate and raid the ship Dracula is using to ambush him. As time goes on, Helsing's ability to hypnotize Mina to obtain intelligence on the whereabouts of Count Dracula diminishes significantly as her appearance and mannerisms become more vampire-like to the point where she even loses her appetite as well as her ability to stay asleep during the day despite multiple attempts of Van Helsing to wake her.
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