world and through time. And sometimes, sex sells a little too well. This is the case for Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In a story containing action, adventure, and thrill, the tale of the two women is placed, uncaringly, in the rear in comparison to the story of the men. This forgetfulness is unfair, as Lucy and Mina Murray Harker arguably play as big a part as Van Helsing or Dracula himself. Lucy is the first person the audience sees fall under the evil, malevolent spell of Count Dracula
characters, Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. Stoker used these two characters to represent the two different roles of women during this time. Lucy, as the innocence and sexual. Mina represents as the perfect Victorian woman. As she dutifully studies and helps her husband, Jonathan Harker. On the other hand, Lucy is represented as the way woman if they lust too much in society in the late 19th century. In this essay I will discuss the roles that Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra have in Dracula, how similar
Bram Stoker was born into a lower-class Irish family in late 1847. He grew up with six siblings, at least four of which were brothers. Throughout his childhood, Stoker was an invalid, sickened with an unknown disease. Many days were spent listening to his mother tell stories of Ireland. It is thought that her stories played a large role in his writing (Stoker 5). Perhaps due to Stoker’s childhood illness and relationship with his brothers, his writing in Dracula exhibited a great deal of homosociality
Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own, One can see the struggles society went through trying to accept the change. In the novel Dracula there are two main female characters. One’s name is Lucy Westenra, the other Mina Harker. In the Book Lucy represented the traditional Victorian female who was ditsy and frail. Lucy would not partake in the matters of the men and would keep her traditional ways about herself. She needs the help and emotional support of others In the book the reader sees how hard it
The introduction of Mina, starting of with a medium long shot of her in the Westenra house, which allows the audience to pay more attention to what is happening in the background, the mise-en-scene being a large decorated room of the Victorian era, including plants, chairs. The setting of the whole room is surrounded by glass, which
Suppressing Feminism In 1897, after seven years of writing, Dracula was finally published. Written by Bram Stoker during the Victorian Era. There was much sentiment towards the emancipation of woman. Though these feelings came mostly from women, there were also opposing sentiments, mostly from men, who did not feel the same way towards the liberation of women. The feminist movement was beginning to take ahold of society and many would have to become accustomed to the new ideals of women possibly
in the context of the novel makes you want to shiver. Generally Stoker uses gothic descriptive words "portent", "grief", "ominous", "melancholy" and "astonished" to describe many feelings and objects like when Mina is astonished when Miss Lucy Westenra has gone sleep walking. These small words have the effect of drawing the reader into his creation of an atmospheric gothic world of fear and horror.
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray are used to contrast the societal expectations of the Victorian woman. The novel shows many elements of the literary theory of transnationalism by introducing matters of travel, gender, and sexuality. Lucy and Mina both start out similarly as typical Victorian women, but multiple events throughout the novel demonstrate their extreme differences. Lucy is portrayed as the inferior Victorian woman, who gives into sexual desires, and Mina is portrayed
Evil never conquers because good always overcomes it. A good example of this is the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because the author expresses the nature of good vs. evil. Dracula wants to come to London because he wants to turn everyone into vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well
Everything is subject to something in the world, whether it’s living, nonliving, tangible or nontangible. Forces act upon things making them subject to others such as society, law, institutions, religion, self-expectations, etc. Those able to inflict those forces on others successfully without retaliation hold all the power. However, power does corrupt, there are rare occasions where power remains completely absolute, in fact it’s almost impossible. While forces are working to overthrow absolute
to help the heroes. In one instance, a telegram from Van Helsing to Dr. Seward arrives late because of a glitch in the telegraph. This leads to Dr. Seward arriving too late at Lucy’s home to help her on the night that Lucy’s mother dies of shock and Lucy teeters on the edge of death after a wolf jumps into their room. Furthermore, the steamboat that Arthur and Jonathan use to travel upstream got in an accident in the river, delaying their chase for the gypsies and Dracula. Dr. Seward records the incident
and the plots throughout the continuation of the text. Seward’s diary symbolizes love to me. I feel that Seward shares a love for Lucy that is corresponding with the love that Mina has for Jonathon and the love Dracula also has for Jonathon. I believe that a main theme that is starting to form in the midsection of the story is how love can affect the characters. Lucy must be a very beautiful woman or must have some very attractive trait because many men are lined up, in an attempt to court her. Van
The Treatment of Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula In reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, I find the treatment of the two main female characters-- Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker-- especially intriguing. These two women are two opposite archetypes created by a society of threatened men trying to protect themselves. Lucy is the Medusa archetype. She is physically attractive, and wins the heart of any man who comes near her (e.g. Arthur, Quincey, Jack, and Van Helsing). Her chief quality is sensual beauty
single-parent West-Indian home was the motivation for many of her writings. The knowledge we garnered at an early age influenced the choice we make throughout our life and this is no more evident than in the writings of Jamaica Kincaid. Her novel ‘Lucy’ explored the characters Lucy’s life experience in flashback of growing up on a small island and her present life in the United States as well as the relationship between the mother and daughter. This portrayal echoes similarities to that of Kincaid
War Two as its historical backdrop. The story is centred around four British wartime children, who are evacuated to the country due to the conflict. They go to stay in a large house in the country with an eccentric professor. The youngest child, Lucy, stumbles across the land of Narnia accidentally whilst playing hide and seek. She there encounters a fawn, who tells her about an evil White Witch that rules Narnia. Upon her return home, her siblings don't believe her. However, they too enter Narnia
women were his Mother, Grandmother, and wife. All three were vital influences on him, and made him who he is in the present day. My interpretation focuses on those women more than any other factor in Russell’s life, most importantly, his mother Lucy Elizabeth. Lucy Elizabeth was Russell’s symbol of strength, a pillar of confidence. She was a fierce woman who was not afraid to speak her mind, and when she did she spoke it in an educated manner. He may have been bothered by her strict ways, but in reality
lucy stone In the history of women’s rights, and their leaders, few can compare with the determination and success of Lucy Stone. While many remember Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for being the most active fighters for women’s rights, perhaps Stone is even more important. The major goal for women in this time period was gaining women’s suffrage. That is what many remember or associate with the convention at Seneca Falls. However, Stone was not only trying to gain women’s suffrage
development. For Lucy Snowe, storms usher her along in her development from shy, frigid nursemaid to more open, self-sufficient school-mistress: though fearful and traumatic, the storms, and experiences, tend to mold and enhance her personality. But for Victor Frankenstein, storms punctuate his relationship with his horrid creation, and show his steady dissolution towards tragedy and attempted revenge. Villette practically opens with a storm: after the initial exposition, Lucy tells of how "it
can be put into. A total of 6 different combinations can be achieved. I will begin by investigating the name LUCY. I will work out all the possible letter combinations that can be produced from this name. I have chosen this name because it has no letters the same and I first intend to investigate words with no letters repeated before perhaps moving on to that situation. LUCY LUYC LYCU LYUC LCYU LCUY YUCL YULC YLCL YLUC YCUL YCLU CLUY CLYU CULY
investigating the amount of different arrangements of letters in her name; she does the same with her friend LUCY. LUCY has twice as many arrangements as EMMA, they are curious as to why this is and decide to investigate other names and find reasons for their answers. EMMA - emma, eamm, emam, aemm, amme, amem, meam, maem, mame, mema, mmea, mmea, LUCY - lucy, luyc, lycu, lyuc, lcyu, lcuy, ulcy, ulyc, uylc, uycl, ucly, ucyl, cluy, clyu, culy,