Lucy Westenra

Lucy Westenra is a young English woman of considerable charm and social position, beloved by several devoted men and cherished most deeply by her fiancé, Lord Arthur Holmwood Lord Arthur Holmwood. She is lively and kind-hearted, valued equally by Dr. John Seward and Quincey Morris as a dear friend despite her engagement to Lord Arthur Holmwood. She represents the innocence and beauty of English womanhood, yet she becomes the primary victim through which the horror of Count Dracula is first fully realized.

Lucy falls under the vampire's influence while traveling abroad, becoming progressively weaker and stranger, consumed by lethargy and bizarre cravings. The men who love her watch helplessly as she fades, their efforts to save her ultimately failing. Yet Lucy's suffering does not end with her physical death; she is transformed into an Un-Dead creature, beautiful and terrible, prey-ing on innocents and representing a perversion of everything she was. The necessity of destroying her—of driving a stake through her heart to return her to peace—forms the emotional and moral climax of the early portion of the novel, profoundly affecting all who knew her and steeling the survivors' resolve to stop Count Dracula before he creates others like Lucy.