Lucy Westenra

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of women's role in a largely patriarchal society? What about work and career? What about sexuality and desire? What about marriage and childbearing? The women that are introduced to the readers of the novel are Lucy Westenra, Mina Murray, Dracula's three sisters and Lucy's mom Mrs. Westenra. As a writer Bram Stoker "did not ignore the budding influence of the turn-of-the-19th-century feminism movement" (Stoker 12-6210). Women at that time were gearing up a fight to be equal to men and have the…

Harker and Lucy Westenra are both victorian era women who were raised in a time where their lives revolved around pleasing their husbands. While Westenra is content with being subservient to her husband, Harker views herself more as an equal to her husband. In her introduction, Mrs.Harker reveals to the readers that she keeps up with her fiance’s studies and attempts to do what she sees “lady journalists do: interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversation.”(57).…

production and the rise of the ‘modern’ women in regards to late Victorian advertising. Looking in particular at the introduction of ‘The New Women’, Stoker depicts the separate spheres via Dracula’s “ravenous female consumers”, Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. Consumption is evident through the vulnerability of the women against the powers of Dracula himself, where Lucy’s “purity” and “sweet” nature turns into “voluptuous wantonness”. Again, not only does Dracula overpower women directly; he…

Woman was evolving in this time and often was independent, unmarried, and often seen as a flirt or as very seductive. Mina Murray, Lucy Westenra, and the three vampiresses are all prime examples of New and True women. Both types of women have contrasting traits, but almost all the women throughout the book have acts displaying behavior that both a New and True women has. Lucy and Mina…

In Dracula, Stoker presents a stark representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous…

he becomes powerless in the day (by light). Van Helsing: A Dutch professor, described by his former student Dr. Seward as “a philosopher and metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.” He is called upon to cure the ill Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing’s contributions are…