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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, John Seward, and Quincey Morris, on the same day.
Renfield envisions Dracula's approach to Whitby Bay via the ship Demeter, and sees the Count kill the captain and the crew ("The Master's Song"). After reading about the disaster, Mina discusses the news with her friend Lucy Westenra , and about Lucy's trouble with sleepwalking, which the latter had inherited from her late father.
Jonathan Harker did help Dracula to buy property in London, but he did it without ever leaving England and met the Count only after he arrived in London and became the Harkers' neighbor. At the start of the story, the Harkers are already married, Dracula is in England, and Lucy Westenra (renamed Westera in the play) is dead.
In the 1977 adaptation Count Dracula, he is merged with the Arthur Holmwood character and renamed Quincey Holmwood. To date, Morris has been portrayed in film and television by: Jack Taylor in Count Dracula (1970)-here he is an Englishman and Lucy’s fiancé; Richard Barnes (as Quincey Holmwood) in Count Dracula (1977)-here he is Lucy’s fiancé
In a sense, they were all correct. There have been so many adaptations of the novel that each of us is likely to enter the theater with our own set of expectations about what the story should be.
The actor wondered why the film version reduced the large mirror used in the play to the small cigarette box with a mirrored lid. [15] Despite Van Helsing becoming one of his most famous screen roles Van Sloan did not think much about the film – in a letter to his nephew he once wrote: "That reminds me of your failure to see the Dracula film ...
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