Mina Murray is spiritually strong, pure of heart, resourceful and intellectually gifted beautiful young woman. She is Jonathan Harker's fiancee and best friend of Lucy Westenra, the count's first victim. When Dracula sees Mina's picture, he believes his wife was reincarnated.Mina works as a schoolmistress, but eventually victimized by Dracula herself. Mina is in many ways the heroine of the story, embodying purity, innocence, and Christian faith-virtues she maintains despite her suffering at the vampire's hands. She later help Van Helsing and the others to track Dracula to his castle.