Lucy Barker is a fictional character that appears in some versions of the story Sweeney Todd.
12 Facts About Lucy Barker
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Lucy Barker later finds Lucy as a beggar woman; not recognizing her, he slits her throat, before killing Mrs Lovett.
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Lucy Barker appears in the musical adaptation Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and the subsequent film adaptation.
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Lucy Barker is the faithful and loving wife of Benjamin Barker and mother of Johanna Barker, whose life is destroyed by the evil Judge Turpin, who exiles her husband in order to have her all to himself.
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Lucy Barker survives, but goes insane and disappears to live as a poor beggar, surviving on alms.
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Mistakenly believing her to be dead, Lucy Barker undertakes a long string of murders, with the ultimate goal of killing Turpin in order to avenge the destruction of his family.
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Turpin lusts after Lucy, and has Barker falsely arrested and exiled so that he can have her to himself.
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Lucy Barker ignores his advances, staying faithful to her husband, never once leaving home.
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Lucy Barker is so distraught that she attempts to kill herself with poison, but survives and is driven completely insane.
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Lucy Barker forgets everyone and everything she held dear and wanders the streets of London as a homeless beggar.
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When Benjamin Barker, under the alias of "Sweeney Todd", returns years later, Mrs Lovett, who was in love with him, leads him to believe that Lucy is dead so that she could have him to herself.
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Todd then shows up and Lucy Barker begins to recognize him.