Characters: Dr. Seward (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

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Characters: Dr. Seward
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Dr. Seward's profession

Head of an insane asylum

Dr. Seward's relationship to Lucy Westenra

Former suitor

How Seward contributes to the novel's narrative

Through his diary entries

Seward's initial approach to supernatural events

Scientific & skeptical

Who Seward invites to help treat Lucy

Van Helsing

What Seward learns from Van Helsing

About vampirism & its implications

What happens to Lucy that Seward witnesses

She becomes a vampire & they truly kill her

What Renfield's behaviour indicates

Dracula's activities (acts as barometer)

Destination of Dracula's final pursuit

Back to Transylvania

Theme Seward embodies: science vs. ___

Supernatural

Theme linked to Seward's work with Renfield

Mental illness & connections to supernatural

Seward's evolution throughout the story

From skepticism to active combatant against evil

Seward's observation about Renfield's madness

There is method in his madness

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