Ophelia who drowned, bedecked with flowers. And Lucy, bedecked with flowers as if for burial, who describes her experience thusly:
and then I seemed sinking into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to drowning men;
Ophelia, whose flowers were a warning and a judgement (unheeded), and Lucy's, whose flowers are a ward and and a protection (and will they be heeded?
Ophelia, singing: "there's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." But Lucy's garlic, like the lotus flowers or the waters of the Lethe, will "make [her] troubles forgotten."
Ophelia, who killed herself - or did she? Did she go to the water or did the water come to her, the gravediggers argue. And Lucy, who, sleepwalking, brings herself to Dracula, under her own power, as Ophelia brings herself to the water - but not of her own volition
Ophelia, deceived by her lover (for her own good?) to her great detriment, locked out of his plans - and Lucy, who must be told nothing, not even the efforts made on her behalf
Ophelia, so dutiful to her only parent, adjusting her romantic plans to please him, devastated utterly by his death. And so dutiful also Lucy, choosing the suitor most approved by her only parent, whose life or death are likely to prove equally devastating
Ophelia, abandoned and failed utterly by the men who love her, who can only act their love by fighting over her tomb. Versus Lucy, beloved by all, whose emperillment only brings them closer to each other for love of her - but nevertheless they fail her, and nevertheless they leave her alone
Ophelia, who might have been murdered by her mother-in-law to keep a deadly secret, dying in Gertrude's care who called her daughter. And Lucy, being just as surely killed by secrecy, left her mother's care which should be the deepest, but who turns her away in her hour of need
Ophelia, guarded closely by Horatio, who leaves in haste upon receiving Hamlet's letter from overseas. Just as Mina, who guarded her so closely in Whitby, leaves Lucy in haste, receiving news of Jonathan via overseas letter
Ophelia, who, as a suicide, must not be buried in hallowed ground - but is anyway, by royal mandate. And Lucy, who made her favorite seat on a suicide's grave. If Lucy dies tonight, her very soul stolen by a creature of darkness, how will she be buried?
