Character Analysis Lucy Westenra

Lucy Westenra is an innocent, flirtatious young woman at the beginning of this novel who goes through some of the most drastic changes. Darkness overtakes Lucy who is always known for being blissful and caring. She transitions into a being that no one wants to be associated with, and her presence is dreaded. She is faced with danger, sickness, death; everything around her is testing the simple person she had grown up to be. Eventually, she isn’t able to go back to the person she once was and is forever supposed to be a creature, the opposite of the way she was. Until the man she loved knows the truth and ends her everlasting life.
When Lucy is presented in the novel she is described as having, “sweet purity” and “loveliness”, along with the simplicity behind her wearing white. Wearing white gives the impression of innocence and so does the, “beautiful color” in her cheeks as she is blushing. She is portrayed as being very vulnerable and gives men in the novel a reason to have desire for her. In a letter wrote to Mina, Lucy asks, “Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?” This part of …show more content…
She is physically the same still beautiful and healthy as if it was before she had gotten sick. She begins to prove that she is a vampire, she begins taking children and drinking their blood. Before she became a vampire she was very pleasant and people adored her, but after she turned into a vampire she became more vulgar and wasn’t kind like Lucy was. Lucy said, “Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!” (Page 181). Her saying this shows how she still tries to have a good nature, but then you really interpret it, and realize when she says, “…My arms are hungry for you,” she doesn’t say it out of love or kindness, but out of