Family Flashcards
My mothers tender
My mothers tender caresse and my fathers smile of benevolant pleasure while regarding me are my first recollections
Yet you my creator
Yet you my creator detest and spurn me, thy monster to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us
No father
No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as i should deserve theirs
you are my creator
you are my creator but i am your master
i had let
i had let loose into this world a depraved wretch
victor can’t understand his own actions in much the same way as the gothic was interested in the disorderly and unexplainable
demoniacal corpse
demoniacal corpse to which i had given life
filthy
filthy creation
dangers of pursuing the forbidden
i had become capable
i had become capable of bestowing animation on lifeless matter
feeling pain inavde
feeling pain invade on all sides sat down and wept
my more than
my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only
mine to
mine to protect love and cherish - victor about elizabeth
a being
a being heaven sent - celestial imagery used ot describe e
without desiring
without desiring a more intimate union..brother and sister only (Elizabeth on her and vicotrs relationship in a letter to him)
our marriage would render
our marriage would render me eternally miserable…do you not love another? (e asking v if he loved someone else)