Minna Murray

Minna Murray's History

She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress (teaching etiquette and decourum) who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and friends with Lucy Westenra.She visits Lucy in Whitby on 24 July of that year when schools would have closed for the Summer.After her fiancé Jonathan escapes from Count Dracula's castle, Mina travels to Transylvania and joins him there. Mina cares for him during his recovery from his traumatizing encounter and the two return to England as a married couple.Mina and Jonathan join the coalition around Abraham Van Helsing, who now turn their attentions to dealing with Dracula himself. 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, destining her to become a vampire at her death. The only way to forestall this is to kill Dracula first and the rest of the novel deals with the main characters trying to achieve this. 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 uses this connection to track Dracula's movements.Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by Van Helsing's gang, who manage to kill him just before sundown. As a result, Dracula's spell is lifted and Mina freed from the curse of the vampire.The book closes with a note about Mina's and Jonathan's married life and the birth of their first-born son, whom they name Quincey in remembrance of their American friend Quincey Morris, who was killed by Dracula's Szgany minions during the final confrontation.