Lucy+Westenra+(2)

​ **Lucy Westenra: The Indecisive Beauty **

//Who is Lucy Westenra? // Lucy Westerna is the beautiful girl who had to decide between three men that loved her. She ended up becoming a victim of Dracula. She was Mina's best friend and an attractive, vivacious women. She was also the first character in the novel Dracula, to fall under his spell. She becomes a vampire, and banishes her soul from the promise of eternal rest. Van Helsing and his crew hunt down the demon that Lucy has become and they kill it, following the rituals of vampire slaying, and then restoring Lucy's soul to her body and to heaven. She has many traits throughout the book and she takes many forms, one moment she is a naive girl, and the next she is this dominate character who is terrorizing young children!

**Lucy Westenra's Traits: **  **In //Dracula//, there are two distinct kinds of women portrayed, and they represent the sexual situation of the Victorian era.If Mina Harker is the image of the perfect Victorian woman, then Lucy Westenra is the expression of the aberrant woman. There is an old saying that says an insane woman will try "to attract every man she sees" One of the first things we discover in the novel is that Lucy has led on three men to the point that all three of them propose to her in the same time frame. Readers view Lucy being on the unfavorable (masculine) side. Because of her natural promiscuity (a trait seen as reserved for men, not women), she is susceptible to Dracula's bite, and succumbs to vampirism rather quickly compared to Mina. ** media type="youtube" key="6nFUA62kYfU" height="385" width="480" align="center"
 * 1. Sexual **

2. Naive​ ​ Lucy is naive because she is unable to see through the spell dracula is putting on her. She just cant tell that she is being killed by this man. Also by reading the book you feel that she is knida young and immature. media type="youtube" key="KX_HJEfdCf0" height="385" width="480" align="center"

3. Manipulator ​ Lucy Westenra has many roles in this novel. At first she is portrayed as a young beautiful girl who has won the hearts of three men, who happen to be friends. Then she becomes ill, and the readers become sympathetic for her due to her and her mothers sicknesses. And finally we view her as this Beautiful lady that takes young children into dark areas and leaves two little bite marks. Lucy obviously had to be very manipulating to convince these innocent children to come with her. She drained them of their blood a little bit at a time. Which is almost like torturing the kids by making them suffer, as Count did to her.



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By: Cathy, Jarrod, & Joe