Dracula presents itself as a gradually transforming tale about bravery in face of the hidden evils of the world. The changing pace from slow, vivid scenes to a rapid conclusion allows the novel to encompass many different themes. However, there are some passages that read the same at the start and at the end. From pages 251 to 254 Stoker applies his writing expertise to indeterminately explain Lucy’s fate. On page 251 Seward confusedly asks Van Helsing about his strange fit of laughter at the thought of Lucy’s death. To this Van Helsing replies, “If you could have done so when the laugh arrived, if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him, for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time, maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.’ I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why. ‘Because I know!’” …show more content…
This is something the reader wonders and attempts to predict at the end Seward’s lonely encounter. Some links can be made towards Lucy, however the overall atmosphere is bewildering as if Stoker is just beginning to set up a specific idea. Leading on from this paragraph is a newspaper excerpt from the Westminster Gazette. In it stars the unknown Bloofer Lady, a lonely figure prowling the city and draining it of impressionable children. The article places the ‘Bloofer Lady’ as a figment of children’s bedtime stories, a concept to scare them into obedience. Contrastingly it also leaves snippets that foreshadow Lucy’s presence in the town such as “our correspondent naively says that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little children pretend.”, and “Some of the children, indeed all who have been missed at night, have been slightly torn or wounded in the