Dracula
Mina Murray
The schoolmistress and heart of the group
A clever, steady schoolmistress who keeps diaries, types up evidence and holds the hunting party together, even after Dracula marks her.
Mina Murray is twenty-two, practical and warm, and the best friend Lucy Westenra could ask for. She keeps a journal, worries about Jonathan when his letters stop, and writes to him anyway. When Lucy begins sleepwalking in Whitby, Mina is the one who follows her into the foggy night.
Mina is the intellectual anchor of the story. She transcribes Jonathan's diary on her typewriter, sees how all the records line up, and earns the respect of Van Helsing, who calls her one of God's women. She is gentle, but she does not give in to fear easily, even when the danger is inside her own mind. She is also the person her friends turn to when they need comfort, and she gives it freely, even when she is frightened herself.
“I am coming, Jonathan. I will cross all of Europe to reach your side!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Mina travels across Europe to nurse Jonathan in Budapest and marries him in the hospital chapel. After Lucy's death, she helps pull the group's evidence together. Dracula then attacks her in her own bedroom, and a consecrated Host burns a scar into her forehead. She feels tainted, but Jonathan promises that nothing can touch his love for her.
Her psychic link to Dracula becomes a weapon. Under Van Helsing's hypnosis, she hears waves and anchor chains and the hunters learn where his ship is going. At the castle, Van Helsing draws a holy circle around her and the vampire brides cannot cross it. When Dracula turns to dust, the scar vanishes.
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