My interpretation

The main point Liz Lochhead is trying to make in her adaptation of Dracula is good overcomes evil, but there are also other points given in the play.

The play starts by showing two vulnerable young woman, they both come across as innocents who are interested in finding love and staying in love. Mina has already found the man she loves, Jonathon and she is to marry him on her 25th birthday, and Lucy is hoping to have the same thing to happen to her.
Lucy is vulnerable because of her little, fragile figure and is ill quite often, which is the reason their father bought Whitby before he died because they believe that Whitby's air is a curative.
Mina is vulnerable because she doesn't have anytime to look after herself as she worries about Lucy's health and when Jonathon goes away to Europe and she doesn't hear from him she then starts worrying about him too.

When Jonathon shows Dracula the picture of Lucy, Mina and Florrie, he instantly see's Lucy's vulnerability and that's why he take such an interest in her as he believes that she would be easier to manipulate.
Dracula starts visiting Lucy after seeing the picture of her, he starts visiting her in her sleep-(act 1, scene 10), because she is at her most vulnerable and easy to take advantage of because she's very ill and asleep.

The mental asylum people have a sixth sense, they can sense when Dracula is coming or near. As Renfield proves in act 1, scene 10 when he starts going mad when Dracula is coming he says "Faster master faster faster faster master master master...". Also in act 2, scene 12 Renfield is warning Mina that Dracula is coming-(even though he wasn't told, he can just sense that he is coming).
Even though it isn't in the script, I know that Renfield was a lawyer before Dracula turned him mad, and I'm not too sure how Dracula manipulated him, but I think Dracula managed to manipulate him because Renfield was scared of death, I think this because in act 1, scene 2, Renfield eats flies and spiders and after eating a fly he says "It's fat with life, strong life, and gives life to me.." so I think where Dracula eats living things and lives forever, it makes him believe that if he dos the same he can also live forever.


Van Helsing is the religious symbol of the play and shows the audience that good will overcome evil, as many plays do. Lochhead shows this by using the crosses, consecrated wafers, and praying.