pretty telling imo that victorian audiences eagerly embraced an intelligent and practical mina harker who was fiercely devoted to her friends and instrumental to dracula's defeat while modern ones can only accept her as the hapless victim of a repressed desire for her own abuser
what dracula does to mina is not supposed to be titillating. he wants her solely out of malice and takes her by naked force (instead of, as later adaptations would have it, by seduction), and she is repulsed and terrified the entire time. not only does this mock the spirit of the