![]() ![]() Despite their words, the sisters have oddly never been recorded by the protagonists of the novel to have followed Dracula's orders without question. ![]() Mina and Lucy also call each other sisters in the novel despite not having any blood relation. As they are also depicted in the novel calling Mina Harker their sister after she was forced to drink the blood of Dracula and being afflicted with signs of vampirism herself. Even though it is never specified/made clear, it is possible that the term "sister" wasn't meant in the literal sense and is, instead, more comparable to the relationship of the women and not as they are to Dracula. It has been suggested from this that it may have been Stoker's intent that these two are Dracula's daughters, extending the sexuality metaphor of vampirism to incest. Though it is mentioned by the sisters that Dracula does not love, nor has he ever loved them, the count himself claims he too can love and asked them if they remember his love from the past The two dark-haired women, however, are described by Jonathan Harker to have "high aquiline noses, like the Count's". In the Dracula novel Harker writes about one of the female vampires in the moment he is with them stating, "I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where." Īlthough the three vampire women in Dracula are popularly referred to as the "Brides of Dracula", they are never referred to as such in the novel, instead referred to as the 'sisters' whether they are married to Dracula or not is never mentioned, nor are they described as having any other relation to him. Since Jonathan Harker is suggested to be the protagonist of the story he encounters her at her tomb in Munich which Dracula protects him from saving his life from the vampire as well as, in the form of a great wolf, keeping him warm from the cold and yelping for nearby soldiers to come to their location. One of the three may have been identified in the short story Dracula's Guest as the vampire named Countess Dolengen of Gratz. Collectively, they are known as the "sisters", and are at one point described as the "weird sisters". In the novel the three vampire women are not individually named. 5 Characters based on the Original Brides. ![]()
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