Family Flashcards

1
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Where

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Where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days and no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses

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2
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Resembling

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I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me

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Superior

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I looked upon them as superior beings who would be the arbiters of my future destiny

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4
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Win

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I should first win their favour and afterwards their love

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5
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Detest

Bound

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Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me

To whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us

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6
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Looked

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When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me

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7
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Companion

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My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects

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8
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Given

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The filthy daemon to whom I had given life

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9
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Happier

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No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself

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10
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Livid

Corpse

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I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death

I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms

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Peculiar

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Smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature

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Chiefly

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What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people

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13
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Longed

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I longed to join them, but dared not

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Peculiarly

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When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love

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15
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Protectors

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My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world

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16
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None

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I was dependant on none and related to none

17
Q

AO3

Punter

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Frankensteins main sin is not his act of creation, but his failure to take responsibility for what he produces

18
Q

AO3

Levine

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There is simply no way to define the relationship between parent and offspring in Frankenstein

19
Q

AO3

Butler

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When it comes to parenting, Frankenstein himself is a monster

20
Q

AO3

Moers

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A monstrous agent of destruction and piteous victim of parental abandonment …

“I am an abortion”

As daughter, mistress and mother, was the bearer of death