what is the relationship between Mina murray and Quincey morris in the book dracula?
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Explanation:
In Bram Stoker’s original novel, Mina is not only not in love with Dracula, she is actively repelled by him.
She shakes with horror when she realises how he has violated her, both physically and spiritually, by forcing her to drink blood from his breast:
“I moved forward to Mrs. Harker, who by this time had drawn her breath and with it had given a scream so wild, so ear-piercing, so despairing that it seems to me now that it will ring in my ears till my dying day. For a few seconds she lay in her helpless attitude and disarray. Her face was ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin; from her throat trickled a thin stream of blood; her eyes were mad with terror. Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count’s terrible grip, and from behind them came a low desolate wail which made the terrible scream seem only the quick expression of an endless grief.”
Chapter 21 of Dracula by Bram Stoker, courtesy of Gutenberg Press:
These are not the actions of a woman in love with the Count.
Mina, throughout the novel, is in love with her fiance and later husband Jonathan Harker. She adores him, suffers for him, worries over him, and both saves and is saved by him.
She is also adoring of and adored by the other men in the novel, with a more platonic or sibling passion.
The idea that she ever felt anything but disgust for Dracula is a later invention when the Count is shifted from the rather repellent, animalistic sexual murder-beast that he appears as in the original text to the raw, animalistic, sexy, murdering, misunderstood lover that he becomes in later films.
Francis Ford Coppola is certainly one of those guilty of rewriting the Count from attacker to lover. Other novelists and film-makers did the same, but there is absolutely no evidence in the book that she was anything but revolted by him, even when she feels drawn to him by their blood link, nor that she disagrees with Quincey’s dying words
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