Chapter 5
Lucy's letter: 'Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?' - a notorious line read variously as innocent fancy or repressed polyandrous desire.
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From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Lucy represents traditional Victorian femininity; her famous letter complaining she cannot marry three men introduces the suitor trio and foreshadows her sexualized corruption.
Chapter 8
Lucy's sleepwalking on the Whitby cliffs where Dracula first attacks her - the iconic Gothic scene of female vulnerability.
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The 'bloofer lady' staking scene - vampiric Lucy in the Hampstead tomb, described in voluptuous, sexualized terms before Arthur drives the stake through her heart.
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