In the book Dracula, by Bram Stoker, we see how Stoker does not hesitate at all to give us horrific details. Because this is a Gothic novel it is important for us as the readers to see all these monstrous events that happen in the book. Lucy, one of the charters in the novel Dracula, is part of many scenes that are pretty gruesome in detail. Even though Lucy is not necessarily one of the main speakers, Stoker uses her to show us how in the past women were thought to be more prone to sin than men, though all the shocking descriptions of the things Lucy does and the stuff done to her.
We first see Lucy as this attractive women because she tells Mina she got “THREE proposals in one day” (Stoker 48), who finally does choose Arthur Holmwood to be engaged with. Stoker uses this beauty of hers to show us the purity she first has that makes all three men to want her even more which is seen as a danger to the men around her. Lucy is the first victim of Dracula because she is a sleep walker which makes it easy for Dracula to feed off her. Being the Counts first victim also emphasizes the ideas of how women are more prone to sin. Every time Lucy gets her blood (life) taking out of her she become paler and just “too weak to make the effort [to move]” (Stoker 105). Dracula was destroying her beauty which was such a significant part of her;
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Stoker makes sure he gives us every detail about how the men feel, how they “would give the last drop of blood [of their] body for her” (Stoker 105). The men give her transfusion of their bodily fluids to Lucy so she will become well again. These transfusions are shown in great detail, but they did not work because Lucy was still tempted and Dracula was still taking her life away from her. When she finally died, “Death had given back part of her beauty” (Stoker 139), and now her beauty would become an even more dangerous threat to the people around