Frankenstein Flashcards

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“I pursued the path…

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towards the destruction of the daemon” (victor, Christian righteousness)

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“the fallen angel becomes…

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a malignant devil… even that enemy of god had friends and associates… I am alone.” (creature, 24, religious allegory)

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“Like an…

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archangel who aspires omnipotence, I am chained to hell.” (victor, connects himself to the creature)

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“and to perceive…

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the boundaries of the radiant roof of light with canopied me.” (romanticism)

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“it clings…

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to the mind, when it had once seized on it, like a lichen on a rock.” (romanticism, subverted)

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“these sublime and…

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magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation.” (victor, romanticism)

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“but what glory…

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would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”

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“A new species…

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would bless me as its creator and source.”

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“was disturbed…

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by the wildest of dreams.” (kissing his mother’s corpse, gothic convention)

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“such the words…

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of fate, enounced to destroy me.”

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