Lucy's Influence On Dracula

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The men want to protect Lucy when Dracula is taking her but they do not let her help but with Mina they let her contribute and recognize her smarts. Lucy is a perfect victorian lady. She is pure, innocent, and easily influenced. That is why she is so easily overtaken by Dracula. Lucy sleepwalks because her life is being drained from her. It is the physical manifestation of what is happening in her life. Victorian Ideals are shutting them into a box until they become lifeless. She is proposed to by three men and and like any Victorian Lady she chooses the one that can take of her the best while she does love Arthur he is also to inherit a lot of money and power making him the perfect husband and her the perfect wife. Lucy lets other takes care of her rather than fighting back herself so she is taken over. …show more content…

He has no control over his life. He has no choice, but to be put into his box as an insane person. He is controlled by society like he is controlled by Dracula. Renfield is dead. Society hollowed him out allowing Dracula to take him over. While Renfield fits into the box society made for him, it is not the box he wants. Renfield wants Dracula to make him immortal like he wants to rejoin society. Renfield just wants to be accepted, which is why he so readily wants to join Dracula. He tries to warn Mina because when she visits him she treats him like a person and not as an inconvenient madman, that needs to be shut away. Renfield wanted to consume flies and spiders because he wanted to consume someone else’s life and be someone

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