Lucy Westenra

the the personalities and situations of the two women. An analysis of Mina as a foil character to Lucy, or vice versa, reveals Stoker’s desire to co-opt, on behalf of the above mentioned status quo, certain attributes of the victorian “New Woman” while condemning others. Via the correspondence of these two friends, Stoker illustrates a dichotomous picture of contemporary Victorian womanhood. Lucy is notable for the relative degree of decadence that she represents. For the most part, she seems to

Mina Murray-Harker, like all women, is one of the most complicated characters throughout the novel. She can bring all the men together to kill Count Dracula, including the three men who were in competition for Lucy Westenra’s love, and has a mind of her own and that of a males. She is highly spoken of by Van Helsing, “She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so

schoolmistress, best friends with Lucy, victim of Dracula, represents christian faith, purity, innocence, typical victorian woman, helps Hark and the doctors to Dracula and his castle, smart, helpful Lucy Westenra: Best friends with Mina, engaged to Arthur, many men like her, becomes a vampire, compromises her christian faiths, is put at the stake by the doctors to get rid of her evil spirit Van Helsing: Professor from Holland, smart, very advanced scientist, tries to fix Lucy, helps to fight Dracula, knows

wrecked with. Men were not happy with women becoming more then a housewife and a child bearer. Mina in the book, Dracula, shows the possible woman learning how to become more than just a daughter to be married off to a man. In Stoker’s view of Mina tells Lucy, “I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously… When we married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he says in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at

follows the suitors, three young friends (Dr. Jack Seward, Quincey Morris, and Lord Arthur Holmwood) who pursuit the same young but frivolous young lady (Lucy Westenra). Before Jonathan left aboard, for his job, he and Mina became engaged to be married at his return. Mina lived with her best friend Lucy, she is a middle-class working teacher and Lucy is a wealthy independent young woman that is very flirtatious. The lives of all these people changes when Jonathan arrives at Count Dracula’s castle, Dracula

and defeats these modern ways. For example, modernist devotee characters such as Mina and Dr. Seward were focal points in showing how without knowledge of the “Old World” they were helpless to help or even venture logical guesses about how to help Lucy after she was attacked. It was only until Van Helsing who did have the old knowledge that they were able to render any aid to her once so ever. Finally, Stoker writes in

More Journal Entries People me To Hayden Brown Dec 15 at 6:37 PM Citation Page Passage Commentary Page 12 “The Count halted, putting down my bags...” This shows how well Dracula treats him as Jonathan first arrives to the estate. Jonathan treats Dracula 's castle as if is a hotel upon first arrival. I find it interesting how quickly he changes his view of the place later in the novel. Page 27 “The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!” Jonathan obviously did not know what he was getting

The Use of Lucy Westenra to Convey Author’s Meaning Lucy Westenra is presented to us by Bram Stoker in his novel Dracula as a very two dimensional character; however, Stoker uses her character as a beacon to convey the true, deeper threat that Dracula poses to society through three distinct stages being Lucy’s engagement, Lucy’s transformation, and the resulting Bloofer Lady. Lucy’s engagement and the proposals surrounding it establish her character as a standard, clear cut Victorian woman dismissive

Jake Klimeck Novels and Tales Dracula Modernity and Folklore Dracula, is not just a story of good versus evil, but a story of complex parallels. Count Dracula is not just a living being, but also dead. Dracula is a man, but he is also an animal. Furthermore, Dracula is both beautiful and repulsive. It is these parallels about Dracula that create a sense of anxiety and uncertainty throughout the reading. Stoker 's use of parallels throughout the novel creates discontent throughout

they can to save Lucy, she dies. They soon realize that she is not dead but in fact a vampire. They break into her tomb, stab her in the heart, cut off her head and make sure she stays dead so she can't harm anyone else. In the last few chapters on the book, Mina finally hears from Jonathan and goes to get him. They decided to get married at the hospital he was recovering at and headed back to England. The men decided to kill Count for good. While They are out hunting for him, Mina has to stay