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What _____ would attend ___ ____________!

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glory, my discovery
Frankenstein
only thinks of the glory - not the moral implications

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Destiny was too potent, and her im___________ _____ had d______ my utter and _________ ____________.

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immutable laws, demeed, terrible destruction.
Frankenstein
Always blaming someone else for his actions

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beautiful and ___________ companion of ___ __ occupations and __ _________.

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adored, all my, my pleasures
Frankenstein
About Elizabeth - had a choice to marry her but always put it off

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Justine died; she _________; and I ___ ________.

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rested, was alive
Frankenstein
Not much remorse, because he still has to deal with it

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When I heard the details of ______ and __________, my wonder ceased.

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Vice, bloodshed

Creature

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When I found so ______________ a ________ placed in my _______.

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Astonishing, power, hands
Frankenstein
Obsession, Glory, God like

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I seemed to _____ _____ all ____ or _________ but for this one ________.

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have lost, soul, sensation, pursuit.
Frankenstein
Obsession

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(works in) “In a ___________ _________, or rather ____.

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solitary chamber, cell
Frankenstein
trapped by his own ambition

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my day dreams became more _________ and _______.

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fervent, vivid
Walton
like Victor

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You are well ____________ with my _________

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acquainted, failure
Walton
Was a poet, Shelley sets up the argument between enlightenment and the romantic

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I ___________ feel the want __ _ _______.

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bitterly, of a friend
Walton
Idea of alienation introduced, echoes the creature’s wants and connects them

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It was my _______ to a____ a c______, and attach myself ferr________ to a ____.

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temper, avoid, crowd, fervently, few
Frankenstein
how he isolates himself

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There is some______ at work __ __ ____, which _ __ ___ ________.

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Thing, work in my soul, I do not understand
Walton
Reflects Shelley’s ambitions - woman’s role

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Why not still ______ over the _______ yet ______ element?

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Proceed, untamed, obedient element?
Walton
Wants to conquer nature - Arctic is a sublime landscape - very extreme, which subverts what Robert expects to find (enlightenment), finds darkness and solitude

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Hoping that some ________ would _____ place in the ___________ and ________.

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Change, take, atmosphere , weather
Walton
Gothic elements

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Hear me - let me ______ my ____, and you will ____ the ___ from _____ ___!

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Reveal, dash, cup, your lips!
Frankenstein to Walton
Sets the stage, suggests that ambition is poison - change of heart? Actually remorseful? / at the end gives speech to crew…

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Guided by a ______ ____

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Silken cord
Frankenstein
Childhood summary

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Their child, the _________ and ________ creature

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Innocent, helpless
Frankenstein
Ironic as he doesn’t treat the creature the same way

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Looked on ________ as ____

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Elizabeth, mine
Frankenstein
Possessive, epitaph - reflects on events sense of foreboding

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My ______ was sometimes ______

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Temper, violent
Frankenstein
Creature and Victor as doppelgängers

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these _______ and m_________ scenes afforded me the __________ con_______ that I was _______ of receiving

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sublime, magnificent, greatest consolation, capable
Victor
Calming power of nature, similar to the creature. Personification of nature is telling him to calm - ironic as the creature emergences from it presenting the darker side of the sublime

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dark ___________ clouded every thought. The rain was ___________ in __________…

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melancholy, pouring, torrents
Victor
Gothic sublime - takes sublime and gives it a darker beauty against Romanticism

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It was a scene ____________ ___________.

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terrifically desolate
Victor describing glacier
ice freezes his emotions

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If our impulses were ___________ to hunger, thirst and _______, we might be _________ _____; but now we are moved by _______ ____ that blows …..

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confined, desire, nearly free, every wind
Victor
Goodwin’s doctrine, saying that we know feel emotions both good and bad that can change our world very quickly

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….. allow me this faint ____________, or take me,as your ___________, away _____ the _____ __ _______.

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happiness, companion, from, joys of life
Victor
Address divide power to prove mutability -Percy Shelley’s poem

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its _________ ugliness rendered it ________ too _________ for human ____

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unearthly, almost, horrible, eyes.
Victor
Always comments on his apperance

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‘Devil,’ ….. / Begone, _____ _______!/ so ___________ murdered!

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vile insect, diabolically
Victor
Casts him as the role of the Devil - reference to Paradise Lost and the Creature thinks himself to be Adam
Melodramatic - contrast to Creature’s calm

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I expected ______ ____________ …. All men _____ the __________; how, then, must _ __ _______, who am __________ beyond ___ living things!
(1/4)

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this reception, hate, wretched, I be hated, miserable, all
Creature
calm, shows intelligence

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..Yet you, __ ________, detest and ______ me, ___ creature, to whom thou ____ bound by ties _____ dissoluble by the _____________ of one __ __.
(2/4)

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my creator, spurn, thy, art, only, annihilation, of us

Creator

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.. How dare you ________ thus ____ ____ _____?

3/4

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sport, with my life?
Creature
Skilled rhetorician

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but if you ________, I will _____ the ____ __ _______, until it be ___________ with the _______ of your __________ friends.
(4/4)

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refuse, glut, maw of death, satiated, blood, remaining
Creature
Animal - death will be stuffed

32
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I will even _____ and ________ to my natural _____ and King.

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mild, docile, lord
Creature
Shows how the Creature becomes progressively more monstrous - wants to bond with Victor, even willing to become ‘Docile

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I ______ to be thy _____, but I __ ________ the _______ a_____.

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ought, Adam, am rather, fallen angel
Creature
Rejection - always met with it by the De Lacey’s and Victor
Physically isolated so therefore morally isolates himself

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I _______ am ____________ e_________.

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alone, irrevocably excluded
Creature
Physically isolated, so therefore morally isolates himself.

36
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I was ____________ and good; _______ made me a ________: make me _______, and I shall again be __________.

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Benevolent, misery, fiend, happy, virtuous.
Creature
Progressively monstrous

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“Do not ________. To be friendless is ________ to be ______________;”

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Despair, indeed, unfortunate
Old man
Only the blind old man shows compassion - the reader is also ‘blind’ so shows compassion

38
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The desert __________ and dreary ________ are my _________.

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mountain, glaciers, refuge
Creature
Creature as a double, glaciers create a different meaning for both of them - dark and alienating/dark beauty

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begone! relieve me _____ the _______ of your _________ form

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from, sight, detested,
Victor
Power of the visual

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For the first ______, also, I ____ _____ the duties of a creator ________ his _________ were, and what I ______to _______ him happy before I __________ of his wickedness.

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time, felt what, were, ought, complained
Victor
Only just thinking of his duties - what a dum dum

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I, ____ the _________, bore a hell ______ me // like the _________ who aspired to _________, I am _______ in an eternal hell

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like, archfiend, bore // archangel, omnipotence, chained
Creature, Victor
After the De Lacey’s rejection, he now compares himself to satan in PL, which is how Victor views him, rather than ‘Adam’. Creates pathos - progressively more monstrous // Shows how both are driven by hatred and move farther from society, link and allusion to Paradise Lost - Hell as a state of mind

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The _________ mass that _______ and _______

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filthy, moved, talked
Victor (when Creature asks for a mate)
Importance of appearance - Victor denies any human resemblance even though the Creature is educated - unable to sympathise with him

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I am a __________ _____

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blasted tree
Victor describing himself
emphasises his lack of ambition for his new creation - corrupted as he is blasted

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I saw an ____________ barrier _______ between me and __ _______ ___

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insurmountable, placed, my fellow men
Victor
His transgression due to his guilt over William and Justine’s deaths.

45
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I had _______ been moved by the _________ of the being I _________

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before, sophisms, created
Victor
after seeing the destruction done by the Creature, Victor undergoes a moral transgression due to his guilt - enabling Victor to see the possible moral consequences for mankind if 2 creatures were created

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my __________ // for an ________ I dared to ________ ___ my chains … but the _____ had ______ into __ _______

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slavery // instant, shake off, iron, eaten, my flesh
Victor
doesn’t enjoy his work - contrasting with thoughts before creation of the Creature - roles subverted he views himself a slave to the Creature // metaphor motif of chains - weighed down by his bargain with the Creature - v gothic imagery

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[Creature] danced _____ _______ around the d________ ________

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with fury, devoted cottage
Creature
becomes an irrational savage force - consumed like Victor and is vengeful

48
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__________ monster!

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hideous
William
already prejudiced

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[Justine] not _______ so beautiful as her ________ _________ I held; but of an __________ aspect

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indeed, whose portrait, agreeable
Creature
prejudice occurring by sight - ironic - part of him influenced by Victor

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to me the _______ of an ____________ ________ with my Elizabeth was one of ________ and _________.

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idea, immediate union, horror and dismay
Victor
implies a more formal contract, showing Victor’s fear of a physical relationship - link back to dream of his mother’s corpse

51
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his ____________ expressed the utmost extent of ________ and __________

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countenance, malice, treachery
Victor
once again misinterprets the Creature’s actions, wants an excuse to stop

52
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Beware; for I am ___________, and therefore ____________.

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fearless, powerful
Creature
Completely turned away from his original character - got nothing to lose and is therefore vowing to ruin Victor

53
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The __________ mark of the _______’s grasp was on her _______

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murderous, fiend, neck
Victor
The Creature leaves a lasting mark on Elizabeth and therefore corrupts her memory for Victor

54
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I do not doubt that he _________ near the ______ which I __________

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hovers, spot, inhabit
Victor
Sense of the Creature as a supernatural being (gothic) - shows Victor’s loss of rationality. ‘Hovers’ reference to Macbeth.

55
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I _________ myself …. to his ____________

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devote, destruction
Victor
parallels are indistinguishable- hatred beings them closer together.
He is dehumanised and now has an obsessive thirst for revenge.

56
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his face would _____________ _________ to an expression of the __________ rage

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suddenly change, wildest
Walton
reference to Jekyll turning into Hyde - emergence of the monster within - emphasis of doubling of the Creature and Victor

57
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consume _________ [to] this _______________ flame

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ashes, miserable
Creature
reversal of life/creation

58
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men appear to me as __________ ____________ for each _______‘_ _______

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monsters, thirsting, other’s blood
Elizabeth
How Frankenstein is different from other gothic novels

59
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Was I, then, a __________, a _____ upon the _________, from which all men _____?

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Monster, blot, Earth, fled?
Creature
what is defined as monstrosity is in society - Shelley is challenging. The Creature is assumed to be a monster due to is appearance - therefore he modelled himself to become one.

59
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Save and ________ ___! …. Do not ____ _______ __ in the hour __ ______!

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protect me!, you desert me, of trail
Creature
Importance of apperance, shunned by the members of society (other De Lacey’s). definition of ‘Monster’; the reader is also blind like the old man, therefore we feel sympathy for the Creature for what he feels rather than his appearance.

59
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I was in _________ the ________ I am

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Reality, monster
Creature
Accepts Victor’s definition of himself

59
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[after saving the child from drowning and is shot]

Inflamed by pain, I vowed ________ _____ and ____________ to all mankind”

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eternal hatred, vengeance
Creature after saving the child after drowning
progressively monstrous

60
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I the only __________ thing that __________ ___________ in a scene so __________ and heavenly

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Unquiet, wandered restless, beautiful,
Victor
Doubling on a social level, dehumanising himself
‘Unquiet…..restless’ language of ghosts

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