Dracula Chapter 15 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts
Van Helsing and Seward go to the cemetery that evening to check on Lucy's tomb (she has been interred in a mausoleum above-ground). They both go into the tomb, and Van Helsing pries open the casket thought to contain Lucy; it is empty, and though Van Helsing says this proves that Lucy walks the night as a vampire, Seward says that, quite easily ...
Dracula Chapters 15–18 Summary & Analysis - SparkNotes
That night, Seward and Van Helsing proceed to Lucy’s tomb, open the coffin, and find it empty. Seward suggests that a grave robber might have taken the corpse, but Van Helsing instructs him to keep watch at one side of the churchyard. Near dawn, Seward witnesses a “white streak” moving between the trees.
Lucy Westenra - Wikipedia
Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. She is the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy family and is Mina Murray 's best friend. Early in the story, Lucy gets proposed to by three suitors, Arthur Holmwood …
Dracula Chapters 12–14 Summary & Analysis - SparkNotes
On the morning of September 20, the wounds on Lucy’s neck disappear. Sensing that Lucy is nearing the end of her life, the doctors awaken Holmwood and bring him to say good-bye. In a strangely seductive voice, Lucy begs Holmwood to kiss her, but Van Helsing pulls him away, instructing him to kiss Lucy only on the forehead.
Dracula Chapter 13 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts
Seward believes he is finishing his diary—he reports that he, Van Helsing, Morris, and Arthur all attended to Lucy as she was placed in a marble mausoleum in a cemetery near her house; after doing so, Arthur remarked that, by transfusing his blood into her veins, he felt that he and Lucy were truly married. None of the others in the group ...
Dracula: Chapter XVI - SparkNotes
“You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that coffin?” “It was.” The Professor turned to the rest saying:— “You hear; and yet there is no one who does not believe with me.” He took his screwdriver and again took off the lid of the coffin. Arthur looked on, very pale but silent; when the lid was removed he stepped forward.
Dracula Chapter 16 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts
Lucy drops of a child she has just bitten on the neck—the child is alive and only slightly wounded, sitting dazed in the corner of the scene—and Lucy, sighting Arthur, begins to refer to him as her "love," and to beckon him to come with her.
Dracula Chapters 16-21 Summary & Analysis | SuperSummary
When Holmwood kills Lucy with the stake, Stoker describes him as “driving deeper and deeper” (227) into her. Her body trembles and writhes under the blows, and her gasps and moans give the scene an unmistakably sexual aspect. Stoker uses Holmwood as the executioner because her was her fiancée.
Chapter 15 | Dracula | Bram Stoker | Lit2Go ETC
Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy’s coffin. Another search in his bag, and he took out a turnscrew.
Dracula Chapter 16-20 Summary and Analysis - GradeSaver
As with Lucy's description of her out-of-body experience, the imagery of the phallus, penetration, and the orgasm are the three dominant shapers of the scene. Arthur plunges his stake into Lucy's body, driving deeper and deeper with a ferocity that surprises the other men, while the vampire Lucy screams and quivers.
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