At the end of the 19th century, when Bram Stoker was writing and publishing Dracula, the feminist movement was beginning to gain traction. The concept of the “new woman” was born and with her came educational reforms, an increase in the divorce rate and women tired of being put in an idyllic and old-fashioned box. Mina (Murray) Harker's portrayal in Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula is Stoker's input into the ongoing conversation about the New Woman. Through Mina, Stoker shows the Victorian, predominantly male idea of ​​woman and the constant danger that surrounds her due to the invading ideals of the "New Woman". As the feminist movement began to take hold, many men realized that alongside more educated and independent women came the loss of their ability to live. to be lasting, incorruptible, good” (Ruskin, 120). There was an impossible expectation of purity and innocence, which was more suited to fictional women than to real human beings. The purity of women, however, goes beyond sexual purity but also the purity of their minds from the dangerous feminist ideals that threatened their conformity in the predominantly patriarchal society. Once stained you went from innocent to temptress, from good woman to vampire servant of Dracula. The black and white nature and clear status of women was a common theme in Victorian novels, which went beyond simple vampires. Stubbs notes that there are two types of women in Victorian novels. The first is the sweet and innocent respectable virgin, and then there is the more promiscuous “femme fatale” who corrupts men with her sexuality. (Stubbs, 10) In Dracula Mina touches on both of these categories but ends up firmly rooted in the former. Mina almost descends from a sweet, respectable woman to a vampire, the very epitome of the femme fatale. A professor of women's studies and English at Skidmore College observed that in the beginning Mina is a combination of "saint and mother", she is all that is good and "pure" until she is seduced by Dracula when she is visibly marked as "impure ". . (Roth, 418) The only way to ensure that a woman