After reading the original texts from which Moore and O’Neill drew their characters for their graphic novel, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, my interpretation of the characters did not change as the Victorian texts provided a backstory that helped me understand both the original characters and Moore and O’Neill’s characters to a larger context. The original texts also helped me realize why Moore and O’Neill portrayed the characters the way they did as after reading the original texts I gained a new insight on the characters and this helped me understand the contrast between the old characters and the new ones as well as some similarities and differences. Since I had never read any of the Victorian texts previously I did not understand many of the …show more content…
She is drawn always standing straight and with an air of authority while in the original Victorian text she is written to be more motherly and this is seen when she gives Arthur a shoulder to cry on. In League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen She holds herself at arms length away from the other characters and never lets them see the weaker sides to her. Mina Harker’s experiences in Dracula are enough to help me understand why it feels like she is almost trying to emotionally protect herself in the graphic novel. She experiences countless amounts of turmoil in the novel, like the grief she experiences when Lucy dies to being bitten by Dracula. This why the change from the novel to the graphic novel is so drastic in this sense. After reading about what Mina has to experience I can understand why Ms. Murray always hides Dracula’s scars behind a scarf and why when she is asked to take it off for the sake of a disguise she replies back with, “Absolutely not” (Moore and O’Neill). This is because she does not want anyone to think any less of her because of the bite and she does not want to be thought of as a