Lucy Westenra significantly differs from the above-mentioned examples of female predators. When the reader acquaints her, she is a human being – attractive, beautiful, fairly innocent and probably superficial but certainly not evil. One gathers that she is a close friend of Mina Murrey, albeit their strikingly different attitudes toward life and love – Lucy is adored by three men and her greatest bother appears which one to choose as a husband.
The affairs get truly complicated when one discovers that Lucy has been victimised by Dracula and begins acting strangely, which does not remain unnoticed by Abraham Van Helsing. Lucy is given blood transfusions but the vampire drains her of blood, which leads to her death as a human. As an immortal creature, Lucy’s “sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (Stoker 2013, Chapter 16). Undoubtedly, Lucy was very attractive as a mortal but the moment she becomes a vampire she is evidently sexualised.
Her hunger for blood and cruelty have no limits, for she attacks and feeds on children. Dr. Van Helsing together with his group conjecture soon that it is Lucy that is guilty of children’s disappearance and decide to face the beast. As they notice the woman, she is compared to an aggressive, cold-blooded cat with eyes “full of hell-fire” …show more content…
Generally, male gothic writers “appear to fear the suppressed power of the “other” (particularly women) and therefore to delight in graphic description of torture, mutilation, an murder of women” (Winter, 1992: 21), which results in women being victimised, whereas female Gothic authors try to discover the chances of opposing
The affairs get truly complicated when one discovers that Lucy has been victimised by Dracula and begins acting strangely, which does not remain unnoticed by Abraham Van Helsing. Lucy is given blood transfusions but the vampire drains her of blood, which leads to her death as a human. As an immortal creature, Lucy’s “sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (Stoker 2013, Chapter 16). Undoubtedly, Lucy was very attractive as a mortal but the moment she becomes a vampire she is evidently sexualised.
Her hunger for blood and cruelty have no limits, for she attacks and feeds on children. Dr. Van Helsing together with his group conjecture soon that it is Lucy that is guilty of children’s disappearance and decide to face the beast. As they notice the woman, she is compared to an aggressive, cold-blooded cat with eyes “full of hell-fire” …show more content…
Generally, male gothic writers “appear to fear the suppressed power of the “other” (particularly women) and therefore to delight in graphic description of torture, mutilation, an murder of women” (Winter, 1992: 21), which results in women being victimised, whereas female Gothic authors try to discover the chances of opposing