“There was a long spell of silence, a big aching void, and then from the Professor a keen ‘S-s-s-s’ He pointed; and far down the avenue of yews we saw a white figure advance – a dim white figure”. In the horrific story Dracula by Bram Stoker, Lucy Westenra is identified as vivacious young woman who is much praised for her beauty, purity and sweet nature. We soon learn that she is ill and throughout this passage it is discovered that she has transformed into a gruesome being. During, this passage from the novel Dracula we are taken across a traumatic incident of Lucy Westerna’s life. The dominant idea of the passage is the fear created of the misshapen creature that Lucy has become through literary devices such as imagery illustrated along with the structure of the passage, as well as the diction and tone and also comparison established in the passage.
The prevailing idea of the passage is the trepidation established by the vulgar imagery that is selected by Stoker that also affects the structure of the passage. Stoker begins this section off with a vague beginning and gradually elevates into an intensified environment. The utmost horrifying character in this passage is Lucy Westenra, as she advances closer to the men the atmosphere becomes terrifying by the usage of negative and immoral imagery. The passage begins with four men proceeding along an avenue packed with yews, once they catch sight of a “a dim white figure, which held something dark at its breasts” (Stoker 233) and as the moonlight fell the picture became more vivid as they could see a dark-haired lady who was clothed in the “cerements of the grave” (Stoker 233). As the men got closer to Lucy they noticed the horrendous features of the reformed Lucy. Her “lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin” consequently she was slurping blood out of an infant. The pernicious change of Lucy sickens Dr. Seward and he describes her as a “thing” referring to something...