Lucy

Question 1

‘Three proposals!’

Answer 1

• chapter 5 - proposals from Seward, Arthur + Quincey

Question 2

‘I feel so miserable though i am so happy’

Answer 2

• feels remorse for rejecting the other men - but is also happy because she is desirable
• embodies the new woman perfectly

Question 3

‘Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her?’

Answer 3

• chapter 5 - promiscuous, new woman fears - foils Mina who is strictly monogamous + desires Jonathan only

Question 4

‘Lucy waked prettily, she did not lose her grace’
‘ she put her hand on her throat again and moaned’

Answer 4

• chapter 8 sapphic themes between Lucy and Mina when Lucy is bitten by Dracula and is unwell
• sensual language

Question 5

‘Her eyes spoke to us, that was all’

Answer 5

• chapter 10 - when the men are trying to save Lucy - ‘eyes’ are their sign of consent - though this is blurry + likely involves sexual violence

Question 6

‘Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever’
‘Corpse’

Answer 6

• chapter 10 - her description when she is close to death

Question 7

‘Death had given her part of her beauty’

Answer 7

• Lucy dies in chapter 12

Question 8

‘She makes a beautiful corpse’

Answer 8

• chapter 13

Question 9

‘Bloofer lady’

Answer 9

• chapter 13 - Lucy’s state in the undead
• begins to terrorise children + her murders end up in the paper

Question 10

‘Lucy Westerna, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned into adamantine, heartless cruelty’

Answer 10

-dr Seward sees Lucy as a vampire - completely bewildered

Question 11

‘The lips were crimson with fresh blood’

Answer 11

• chapter 16

Question 12

‘Eyes full of hell fire’

Answer 12

• chapter 16

Question 13

‘Languorous voluptuous smile’
‘Sharp white teeth’

Answer 13

• chapter 16

Question 14

‘Clutching the child strenuously to her breast’

Answer 14

• chapter 16 - loss of maternal instincts

Question 15

‘The thing in the coffin writhed’

Answer 15

• chapter 16 - Lucy goes from being the most beautiful + admired woman in the novel to being referred to/degraded to a ‘thing’

Question 16

How did the men behave whilst killing Lucy?

Answer 16

‘You will emerge as though you tread on air’
‘I felt my heart grow cold’
‘Arthur never faltered’
‘His face was set and high duty seemed to shine through it’
- all seemed to take delight in killing Lucy - no longer their Freudian ‘Madonna’ so they take pride in killing her - they view the implied sexual abuse Dracula inflicted on Lucy as a sign of her impurity so they no longer desire her - links to gender etc