Lucy

Lucy is a beauty and charming young woman. This character appears for the first time in “Dracula” after Jonathan’s story in Dracula’s castle. She is a good friend of Jonathan’s girlfriend Mina.
Lucy lives at Whitby with her old mother, she writes some letters to Mina, telling her about three men who try to win Lucy’s love: these three are the American Q. Morris, the respectable doctor Seward and Arthur Holmwood that will became his boyfriend.
Lucy asks Mina to came at Whitby, so the narration as epistolary exchange between the two friends stops, and stars the diary form with the two different points of view (Mina’s and Lucy’s diary).
Lucy falls in love with Arthur so she declares to the other two suitors her refusal. During this time in Whitby happens a strange fact: a ship, during a stormy night arrives from the sea with on board only the dead captain tied to the helm; someone says that something similar to a dog is jumped out to the ship.
A night Lucy, during one of her frequently crises of sleep-walking, goes out home and when Mina becomes aware of this she looks for her friend and she finds Lucy near the place where the ship was found. After that night Lucy is always tired and her colour is more pale. Mina decides to ask help to doctor Seward but also he doesn’t understand what is happening to Lucy, and calls Van Helsing his old professor from Amsterdam that immediately understands the problem and he tries to explain this to Seward, Mina, Arthur and Morris. Lucy was bitten by a vampire and soon she dies and becomes a vampire too.
Van Helsing is arrived too late and he had not to avoid the Lucy’s death. Now she is a vampire and they must kill her, because she every night goes out from her crypt to bits and hurts some children.
The difficult duty is entrusted to Arthur, the one that Lucy loved, Van Helsing explains that he must hit Lucy’s vampire with a stake of wood in the heart. So Arthur just grieved about the death of his lover now he must hit that body again and finally Lucy’s aim will be free.

Matteo Baggiani