Lucy Westenra

1.) Renfield is characterized as a mental patient in Seward’s mental asylum who has a desire to gain the "life-force" of flies, birds, and cats by consuming them. While the character of Renfield may be considered seemingly irrelevant and extraneous to the central plot of Dracula, he functions as a rather important role, providing insight to multiple central motifs in the novel, such as invasion and blood. Firstly, through Renfield’s inner struggle we learn that he is “not his own master” (Stoker…

Lucy is an example of how sometimes, the Good can't always bring someone back. Lucy Westenra is young woman who was courting Dr. Seward, as well as a few other men, and gets lured into the darkness that is Dracula. Lucy is well loved and cared for by everyone. She is not only regarded often as "vulnerable" and "innocent", but also as "sexy" and "voluptuous". Her friend, Mina Harker, is also a target of Dracula yet she comes back from the dark. Where lucy is "sexy" and "voluptuous"…

perceive a present dualism in her character. For example, when Dr. Abraham Van Helsing first comes to visit Lucy Westenra upon Dr. John Seward’s request, we can see how these two perform carefully to bring up Lucy’s condition in her presence, they begin by beating around the bush in order to approach the situation gently, all for her supposed sake. Van Helsing feels that it is necessary to reassure Lucy she is very much loved by everyone and addresses her as “My Dear Young Miss” (149). He is…

characters to hunt vampires in Bram Stokers novel Dracula. They are represented as perfect Victorian men who are fearless and have good hearts. Lucy Westenra choses Arthur as the man she wants to get married to, even though Dr. John Seward and Quincey Morris proposed to her as well. The four men are best friends even after Arthur Holmwood has been picked by Lucy as a possible husband. The men’s devoted behaviour towards one another can be perceived as very female characteristics, since they…

The reader experiences the actions in the novel on the basis of diaries, letters and journals written by the characters Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward. No entries are written by count Dracula, he is portrayed by all the other characters. Dracula is the inspiration to many film and other vampire characters. It is said that Stoker read the story about a Rumanian price…

Victorian woman should not be through his main female characters, Mina and Lucy. Mina Murray is a very intelligent…

Van Helsing was a friend to as well but Harker saw him more of an older leader figure than a pal. In the novel Jon newly meets and befriends Arthur Holmwood, fiancé to Mina’s best friend Lucy. Lucy Westenra and Jonathan Harker aren't extremely close even if she is a good friend to his wife. Dracula and his three wives, on the other hand, genuinely dislike Jonathan. Mr. Harker has a interesting point of views and opinions throughout the book…

The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows with the main female characters, Lucy and Mina have opposite personality, they are both portrayed as unequal to men that need to be protected and desired. The difference is that Lucy’s fate is was that she was weak in the end. while Mina’s fate rested…

about some real estate; however, he gets trapped inside with Count who possesses inhuman powers. Jonathan manages to escape back home returning to his fiancee Mina Murray. Mina spends most of the time when Jonathan is gone with her best friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s character develops after she has an unfortunate encounter with Dracula. His undead nature leads to a variety of different outcomes for all the characters. The powers that Dracula possess reach a point where it is unsafe for him to…

but vary depending on the situation we are forced to face. The characters of Jonathan Harker and Lucy Westenra featured in Dracula by Bram Stoker attempt to conform to the social norms of the European Victorian era, however, occasionally the intellectual drive of the Eros and Thanatos tendencies of the Id surface…