Creation

Question 1

HMT - Wombs only

Answer 1

“Remember, said Aunt Lydia. For our purposes your feet and your hands are not essential”

Question 2

Frankenstein - new species

Answer 2

A new species would bless me as its creator and source

Question 3

Frankenstein - thy Adam

Links to Locke - nurture over nature

Answer 3

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Question 4

Frankenstein - duties of a creator

Answer 4

For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were and that I ought to render him happy.

Question 5

HMT - Janine

Answer 5

One of them is vastly pregnant, her belly swells triumphantly… she’s a magic presence to us.

Question 6

HMT - Unbaby

Answer 6

To go through all that and give birth to a shredder.

Question 7

HMT - daughter

Answer 7

I am not your justification for existence.

Question 8

HMT - compose (being a handmaid is unnatural)

Answer 8

‘I compose myself… What I must present is a made thing, not

something born.’