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Compare And Contrast Lucy Before And After Her Vampirism

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Lucy’s transition to a vamped state is significantly reminiscent of nineteenth-century discourse concerned with ‘deviant’ sexual behaviour, and this passage specifically emphasises the temptation and lustfulness of her vampirised form, which drastically contrasts her innocent persona. Stoker uses a light and dark motif to contrast between Lucy before and after her vampiric transformation. Prior to her descent into an ‘undead’ state, Stoker employs language such as ‘sunny’, ‘soft’ and ‘angelic’. The collocation of this language not only reinforce Lucy’s innocence and purity, but dramatically contrast her ‘spasm of rage’ in her vampirism. In her descent to vampirism, Lucy has not only lost her human form – but her innocence and ‘child’ like attributes.
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