... indelibly marked as a symbol of her sin, 'as he had placed the wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it- had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of hot metal'37. The heavy hellish and visual imagery give connotations of the inferno of torment, a sign of her eternal punishment, 'Even the almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must wear this mark... until judgement ... day'38. Stoker also portrays this theme in the 'punishment for sexual knowledge and the violation of the restricted Victorian female roles39' as suggested by critic Michael ... ...

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