Often, Mina is depicted as the good Victorian girl who is the unwitting victim of Dracula's overwhelming powers: "With her left hand she held both of Mrs. Harker's hands, holding them away with his arms in full tension; his right hand grabbed her by the back of the neck, forcing her face onto his chest. Her white nightgown was smeared with blood and a thin stream ran down the man's bare breast, highlighted by the torn robe. The attitude of the two terribly resembled that of a child who pushes a kitten with noise into a saucer of milk to force it to drink.' She tries to preserve her chastity and becomes futilely angry at him, even as he forces her to drink her own destruction. And, of course, she fails to preserve her chastity, as the red streaks on her nightgown indicate on her nightgown could be even more indicative of her losing her virginity to the vampire because, even though she and Jonathan are married at this point, she has been so ill and taken so long to recover, that it is very likely normal. marital relations have not yet begun. This scene can rightly be read as rape, as she is attacked in her own bedroom by a man who is not legally her husband and the act is violent and angry vampires in the castle, Mina is put in a position where her body is forced to mime a Fellatio. This act indoctrinates her into Dracula's harem of vampire women, and will ultimately serve to make her carnal, hypersexual and not maternal like them. This danger to traditional cultural norms is encoded in Mina's violation because the one who is supposed to protect her, her husband, is as incapable as he was when the three vampires were bewitching him. In this case, Mina is forced to take their place, just as Jonathan was almost forced into the role of the castle's husband. As with Lucy, Mina's punishment continues as she seeks comfort from Jonathan