Lucy Westenra Essays

Lucy Westenra is the best friend of Mina Harker and thus the second female main character of the novel. Stoker describes with Lucy a representative of the New Women movement, as the time was seen by the British population. She is single and lives with her mother, who is suffering from heart disease. Her family, that was once very prosperous, consist only of herself and her aging mother. She is Dracula’s first victim /vampire child in England. Lucy stands in many ways in contrast to Mina’s character

A battle between good and evil is a common plot to Dracula. The forces of evil, Count Dracula and other vampires (the un-dead), try to take over Britain. The novel heroes Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. John Seward, Johnathan Haker, Quincy Morris, and Arthur Holmwood are the first responders for this evil invasion of the British Empire. In the novel the characters Dracula and Van Helsing play a major role for being the leaders of their respective groups, therefore they controlled the actions of their groups

Power is infinite domination, but it all depends if you control it or if the power consumes you. A gothic romantic novel called Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Is a novel about a man named Victor Frankenstein. He is in live with the idea of science and what it can create. During his time away from home to college. Something inspires him and he creates a monster. Victor takes no responsibility for the monster and abandoned it. The monster soon places tragedy in Victor's life. They vow to fight and only

hypocrisy. Lochhead’s unusual approach paces much more significance on the female characters, in particular, Mina and Lucy and puts much less significance on the more well-known and traditional main characters Dracula and Van Helsing. This repression of sexual desires is expressed as Lucy struggles to cope with the social convention of how Victorian women had to behave. In the opening scene, Lucy has conflicting elements in her character and struggles to cope with social convention as Liz Lochhead describes

Mina, and Mina’s interest in Jonathan Harker, shows the male vampire’s direct attempts at getting what is desired. However, Dracula is capable of seduction rapidly when it comes to Lucy Westenra. Lucy is highly naïve when it comes to men, taking on a variety of suitors. She is very flirtatious and loves male attention. Lucy demonstrates her love of male attention in the quote, “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble” (Stoker Chapter 5). So that

In Dracula Lucy Westenra is a dynamic character. Lucy is portrayed as a dynamic character because of how she changes throughout the novel. Lucy was a young and innocent girl with morals. Although she had a faint desire to have a strong sexuality towards men, her weakness was abused by Count Dracula and changed her entirely. Lucy was transformed into a vampire which increased her sexuality in result her chastity and innocence were destroyed. She was a threat to men and when she was destroyed she was

In E.M Forster’s, A Room With a View, protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is characterized as a young upper-class girl who was plucked from the comfort of her English country home and thrusted into a whirlwind of colorful Italian culture that is unafraid to express their love, desires and words; a stark contrast to the prim and proper English society she grew up in. However during and after her trip, Lucy experiences a conflict between her self-knowledge and societal standards which interfere in her pursuit

Italy, where Lucy Honeychurch, a young British tourist, is traveling with her older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte. While there, she meets George Emerson and his father, who offer them their rooms in the hotel they are all staying in order so the ladies are given the better view. Though George is of a lower social class than Lucy, he falls in love with her during the trip, and kisses her twice. Charlotte rebukes George when she catches him kissing Lucy the second time, and tells Lucy to not tell

haven’t I?” (Page 509, Paragraph 60) This just goes to confirm that it’s easier for Men during that time period to find jobs to make ends meet. Whereas Mable doesn’t have the luxury of being on her own. She has the opportunity to go live with her sister, Lucy. Except Mabel doesn’t want to go live with her. “Does she ask you to go and stop there?” persisted Fred Henry. “She says I can stay if I like.” Well, then, you’d better. Tell her you’ll be there come on Monday.” This was received in silence. (Pg. 508

Forester uses characterization to show the tension in the relationship between Charlotte and Lucy. Both the direct dialogue and subtle unspoken actions combine to illuminates Lucy’s character and her dependency of her cousin Charlotte. This tumultuous relationship is ever-changing, and is exemplified by a roller coaster of interactions between Charlotte and Lucy. When the party returned to the carriages, Lucy immediately pours her heart out to Charlotte telling her, “‘Only you can understand me. You

HOW DOES LADY MACBETH CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE PLAY When we are first introduced to Lady Macbeth, she is being informed of the predictions made by the witches, promising great authority for her husband through a letter. Her response to the letter from Macbeth clearly depicts her lust for power. When she said “Cawdor...shalt be what thou art promised” she almost asserts the witches predictions. And that communicates her determination to go to extreme lengths to get what she wants. In Act 1 Scene 5 we

Universal virtues such as courage, honesty, forgiveness, exemplifies in C. S. Lewis’s Narnia novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The four children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, as well as animals are identified many times throughout the story by certain personality traits, virtue, and character flaws. Character like Peter and Aslan are just some of the examples that show and demonstrate these traits but, unlike Edmund, lacks some of them. The Children are continuously characterized

Hybridity: Hybridity usually defined as “the creation of new trans-cultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonisation” (Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, 2003). It takes many forms comprising cultural, political and linguistic. Ben Okri records a modification and addresses hybrid cultural models in The Famished Road. He connects the hybridity with structure that shapes the narrative. He states that “One of the strongest impulses which made me write The Famished Road is that I got tired

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906), was a reformer and one of the first leaders of the campaign for women's rights. She helped organize the woman suffrage movement, which worked to get women the right to vote. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, on Feb. 15, 1820. Her family were Quakers, who believed in the equality of men and women. Anthony's family supported major reforms, such as antislavery and temperance, the campaign to abolish alcoholic beverages

“And then Lucy saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold was falling on her” (Lewis 7). The Pevensies, who were four young English siblings, had to move to a friend’s house in the country due to WWII. The sibling’s parents wanted them to be safe and moreover, they were taken to a mansion deep into the woods, with a professor and a maid. While playing a game of hide-and-seek, Lucy- the youngest-

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is set in England. The four Pevensie siblings – Susan, Lucy, Peter and Edmund - are sent to live in the countryside with a man named Professor Kirke. While searching the house, the siblings find a room with a large wardrobe that Lucy opens. Upon stepping inside the wardrobe, she finds that there is a snowy forest inside of it. Lucy finds a satyr who introduces himself as Mr. Tumnus and tells her that she is in Narnia. After having tea with him, tells him she needs

The Linden children's summer was supposed to be a calm, relaxing, and normal stay at their uncle's small estate in Yorkshire, England. Of course, nothing ever seemed to be calm, relaxing, or normal for Olivia Lydia Linden. Ever. Of course, the summer had started out normally. Olivia’s mother had dropped her and her three younger siblings, Elizabeth, Jacob, and Charlie off at their Uncle small estate, where he began showing the children around the house. The tour consisted of Olivia's uncle showing

Chapter Eight No Good Trolls and Rotten Witches Clasping the amulet with one hand and Emma’s books in the other, Cotton led us along a path that took a sharp left into the woods. We wandered for miles on foot, looking for the king. Nobody seemed to know where he was. He hadn’t been seen anywhere. Twice, we ducked behind spindly pines trees to avoid the flying witches. Once at the top of the hill I froze. Down the other side, dusty fields stretched to the horizon. Plains were strewn with battalions

voyage of the dawn tredor by C.S Lois cause it was a short book and I liked the authors work, the four siblings arrive at their uncles Susan, Peter, Edmond and the youngest Lucy cause their parents were busy with the war and there cousin. The unpleasant know-it-all bully Eustace scrub is transported alongside his cousins’ Edmond and Lucy Pevensite, to the magical world of Narnia by a painting of a ship, getting swallowed up by a picture, the three children end up near a boat in the water. The boat was

The Progressivist movement lasted from 1900 to 1945 and including multiple movements such as the women’s suffrage movement, the birth control movement, and education reform, to name a few. Some of those who left a legacy include Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Dewey, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Gary B. Nash, in the textbook The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, defined progressivism as a “reform movement in the early 20th century centered in the middle class that