Health Issues In Lucy's Hysteria By Bram Stoker
Lucy’s hysteria is exhibited through her health issues
‘the new woman was persistently represented as a hysteric, whose degenerate emotionalism was both symptom and cause of social change. As symptom, her hysteria was a degenerate form of her natural affections. It was also thought to be a form of brain-poisoning induced by the pressures of modern life and by women’s attempts to resist their traditional roles and ape those of men’. Hysteria disabled women and prevented them from fulfilling their ‘natural’ roles of wives and mothers’. -102. Lucy is perhaps the most obviously modelled on the notions of hysteria prevalent in Stoker’s age. She appears excitable, restless and uneasy with an undefined anguish. We also hear of her physical and mental
‘the new woman was persistently represented as a hysteric, whose degenerate emotionalism was both symptom and cause of social change. As symptom, her hysteria was a degenerate form of her natural affections. It was also thought to be a form of brain-poisoning induced by the pressures of modern life and by women’s attempts to resist their traditional roles and ape those of men’. Hysteria disabled women and prevented them from fulfilling their ‘natural’ roles of wives and mothers’. -102. Lucy is perhaps the most obviously modelled on the notions of hysteria prevalent in Stoker’s age. She appears excitable, restless and uneasy with an undefined anguish. We also hear of her physical and mental