Isolation Flashcards
Tempting: to be better Eve wants more than A satan wants to elevate Walton wants to be better Frankenstein wants to be above
“render me more equal, and perhaps… sometime superior”
‘Towards him they bend / With awful reverence prone and as a god’
never before imprinted by the foot of man
A new species would bless me as its creator and source
Dangerous
Eve hand–> prop
Frankenstien: chamber and spark and dark:
mankind and death
Creature wants companion and without –> danger
Cain is a
“From her husband’s hand her hand soft she withdrew”
“fairest unsupported flower, from her best prop so far”
“I might infuse a spark” “In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house…I kept my workshop of filthy creation”
the moon gazed on my midnight labours
I longed to join them
Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.
glut the maw of death
tiller of the ground
Painful:
Creature want companion and without pain:
Frankenstein wants Elizabeth but can’t have:
Satan outside paradise:
Eve without Adam
Gawain being sad:
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
-some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisaical dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten
“shores with forest crowned”… “but I in none of these find place or refuge”
“Adam wedded to another Eve, shall live with her enjoying, I extinct; a death to think”
“in danger and pain and terrible weather/ the knight rode through the wilds, all alone”