Happy Sunday, friends! Welcome to Sunday Portraits, where we give a face to our beloved book friends!
Today we have: Dracula by Bram Stoker:
Lucy Westenra
Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. She is introduced as Mina Murray's best friend, the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy family. Her father is mentioned in the novel when Mina says he was a sleepwalker, and her elderly mother is simply stated as being Mrs. Westenra. In the 1931 Universal production, she is called Lucy Weston. In the 1958 film Dracula, she is called Lucy Holmwood, Arthur Holmwood's sister, who is engaged to Jonathan Harker. Wiki
Lucy Westenra
I always thought Lucy didn't get enough credit, nor enough screen time. She was portrayed as this rich silly girl, letting such important aspects of her life, like everyone ruling over it, pass. It is obvious from every work of fiction, including the original Bram Stoker's "Dracula", that Lucy was a very tragic character. In the end, I believe we, in modern society will agree, that she might as well have been killed by blood transfusions. And my favorite rewritten story was the one where Dracula admitted to have been trying to save her from all the doctors and idiot men around her (be them there for her good looks or her great wealth they'd inherit, since a woman had little right to her own fortune).
Book review: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Painting by: Nosferatu
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