Key Quotes (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

Past experiences continue to influence characters long after events occur

Psychological haunting from traumatic encounter with Dracula

Reveals Victorian social conditioning & women's internalised fears

Shows fragile sense of self under pressure, need for stability

Complete separation from human existence & eternal isolation

Physical confinement & growing psychological isolation/vulnerability

Isolation from free will & tragic human need for connection

Internalises guilt/shame, threatens identity as pure woman

Complete destruction of Mina's individual identity through possession

Scientific understanding has limits when confronting supernatural

Written records serve as weapons against chaos & evil

Ultimate sacrifice that true love & honour can demand

Genuine: mutual respect/sacrifice. Corrupted: domination/possession

Readers never certain what to believe, maintains unsettling tone

Lost agency & psychological/social limitations trapping individuals