Family and parenthood Flashcards
1
Q
Frankenstein - ‘Adam’
A
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”.
2
Q
Frankenstein - Victor’s family
A
“They all died by my hands”.
3
Q
Frankenstein - mother and father
A
“My mother’s tender caresses and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me, are my first recollections.”
4
Q
HMT - Offred’s daughter
A
“A little girl who died when she was five… mother and baby, locked in a frame, for safety”
5
Q
HMT - Mothers
A
“It smells of mothers; although my own mother did not make bread. It smells of me, in former times, when I was a mother. This is a treacherous smell, and I know I must shut it out.”
6
Q
HMT - ‘saints’
A
“I can see their faces, against the dark, flickering like the images of saints.”
