Lucy Westenra's name translates at least to "light of the west." She has no living father, and Arthur Holmwood gets along with and has much in common with her mother. Of her proposals, she reports at length on the first two; Arthur's is cursorily dismissed (60). Arthur is a bore, but Lucy's mother is a withering, delicate, idiotic pain in the a**, removing the garlic (133, 143), generating a dynamic of repression and secrecy (110), leaving a fortune to Arthur instead of Lucy (166-167).
Interestingly, Lucy's sleepwalking seems not to be possession by Dracula. She did it as a child (72) and has been at it again before Dracula's arrival. Sleepwalking is activity in the nighttime. So at worst she's just susceptible to Dracula. Yet especially for Seward, Lucy is evil: he is entirely unsympathetic.
Once Lucy blithely declares her polygamous wish, she's a goner: "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say it" (59). And what is the "trouble" exactly? Does this parallel the three "brides" of Dracula? In any case, sexual desire, however remotely and indirectly alluded to, and her disinclination for the constraints of this somewhat "arranged" marriage, damn Lucy.
As the "Bloofer" lady, Lucy's victims are children. Repressed animosity is directed at, or monstrosity is defined as a violation of, the role of motherhood. "He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it" (216).
Lucy Westenra's name translates at least to "light of the west." She has no living father, and Arthur Holmwood gets along with and has much in common with her mother. Of her proposals, she reports at length on the first two; Arthur's is cursorily dismissed (60). Arthur is a bore, but Lucy's mother is a withering, delicate, idiotic pain in the a**, removing the garlic (133, 143), generating a dynamic of repression and secrecy (110), leaving a fortune to Arthur instead of Lucy (166-167).
Interestingly, Lucy's sleepwalking seems not to be possession by Dracula. She did it as a child (72) and has been at it again before Dracula's arrival. Sleepwalking is activity in the nighttime. So at worst she's just susceptible to Dracula. Yet especially for Seward, Lucy is evil: he is entirely unsympathetic.
Once Lucy blithely declares her polygamous wish, she's a goner: "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say it" (59). And what is the "trouble" exactly? Does this parallel the three "brides" of Dracula? In any case, sexual desire, however remotely and indirectly alluded to, and her disinclination for the constraints of this somewhat "arranged" marriage, damn Lucy.
As the "Bloofer" lady, Lucy's victims are children. Repressed animosity is directed at, or monstrosity is defined as a violation of, the role of motherhood. "He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it" (216).
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