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Mary Shelley Notes, Intro, and Letters 1 & 2 Flashcards

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the monster thing in Frankenstein is called “…” not “…”

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the creature; Frankenstein

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person that makes the creature is

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Victor Frankenstein

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subtitle:

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Or, The Modern Prometheus

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Modern in subtitle refers to

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Romantic era

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myth-making: putting … together to …

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pieces; make a whole

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(Prometheus) 1st generation of gods called …., 2nd generation of gods called …, 3rd generation of gods called …

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primordial deities; Titans; Olympians

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(Prometheus) Prometheus is a … –> … member of the .. generation

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Titan; older; 2nd

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(Prometheus) Zeus rises up and … all … except Prometheus, because Zeus wants him to … who would … Zeus

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kills; Titans; make men; worship

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(Prometheus) Prometheus makes men out of … and … breathes life into man

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mud; Athena

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(Prometheus) Prometheus’s name means … –> predates our …
Prometheus … mankind, takes … of them

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forethought; consciousness; loves; responsibility

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(Prometheus) Zeus tells Prometheus that he has to decide what belongs to … or … through …

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gods; humans; sacrifice

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(Prometheus) Prometheus sacrifices .., keeps … and … for gods –> … Zeus, so humans can have …

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calf; bones; fats; tricks; meat

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(Prometheus) Zeus takes away … from man when he finds out about the trick –> Prometheus decides to … and … back

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fire; climb Mount Olympius; steal fire

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(Prometheus) Prometheus punished eternally: tied to …, … comes and … his …, which regenerate
eventually … saves him

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rock; eagle; eats; organs; Hercules

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(Prometheus) key words for novel from prometheus’s story:”
…
…
…

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responsible creator; sacrifice; regenerate

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(Prometheus) modern Prometheus –> … Prometheus

from …, spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling

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Romantic; Industrial Revolution

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novel makes use of … –> origin of …

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etymology; words

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novel has epigraph from: quote spoken by … to … in …

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Adam; God; John Milton’s Paradise Lost

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epigraph is from … of Paradise Lost. In this moment, Adam is …, …, thinks creator is …, asking God, “did I .. to …?”

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Book 10; indignant; lonely; imperfect; ask you; make me

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Mary Shelley’s introduction written in …, Percy Shelley wrote the first one in … and the book was published in …
By 1831, Percy is …

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1831; 1817; 1816; dead

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Mary Shelley is a

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bluestocking

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Shelley’s novel is so smart that when it first came out people were convinced that … and gave it to her as a …

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Percy wrote it; gift

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Biography consists of … and …

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bios; graphe

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bios: …/… life
graphe: … (the ….)

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shaped; structured; language; written word

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Shelley’s novel is a

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biography

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Shelley’s parents were …, who died … Mary was born and …. who … their … who Mary didn’t like

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Mary Wollstonecraft; the year; William Godwin; married; neighbor

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Shelley meets Percy in …, who loved works of Mary’s parents. Percy already married to …, but starts … Mary and the two have a … who …

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1815; Harriet; courting; child; dies

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Summer of 1816, Percy and Mary take a vacation to … with: Mary Shelley’s …, ….; … and his …., …

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Switzerland; sister; Claire; Lord Byron; doctor; John Polidori

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All of them in Switzerland share a … and it … all summer

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cabin; rains

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Mary and Claire frequently felt left out, because everyone else were

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writers

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Byron suggests that they write …
Polidori writes … –> leads to modern idea of …
Mary writes …
That summer … commits … because Percy …

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ghost stories; Vampyre; Vampire; Frankenstein; Harriet; suicide; left her

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manuscript composed of: … + ..

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manu; scripere

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manu: …
scripere: to …

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hand; write

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hands are agents of … and ..

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creation; destruction

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palpable

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to touch

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36
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corporeal: … (… of text)

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body; body

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corporeal –> Mary Shelley makes body of …, Frankenstein makes a …

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text; body

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think about how this book touches us in terms of our …, body of text touches your body in the way it …

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bodily function; scares

39
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Mary wrote Frankenstein when she was

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18

40
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Mary is two things: “
… (Greek) = …
… (Latin) = …

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Poeta; maker; Vates; visionary

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Poeta and Vates are words for … , which is what Mary is
… for ancients applied to any writer
we need to think of the book in context of …

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poets; poets; poetry

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mary as a poet: making something … out of a … –> a …, opened 1 eye and saw a … staring back at her

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physical; vision; dream; yellow eye

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reading is …

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metaphysical sight

44
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sight is twofold: … (with …) and …

we only use organ of sight for one of these

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physical; eyes; metaphysical

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monster: a creature in a myth or legend that is horrifying in both … and …

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action; appearance

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monster composed of: … + …

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monere; monstrum

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monere: to …
monstrum: …/….

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warn; demonstrate/instruct

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warning + instruction = … (…)

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DeMONSTration (signs)

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monsters only work/succeed if there’s something wrong with the … or the … that houses them
monsters exploit the already existing …

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hero; society; hole

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monsters are signs that point at

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holes

51
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semiotics: study of .. and their …

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signs; meanings

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How do we make meaning out of events or lives: tell ourselves a … –> make it …, leave out all …

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story; cleaner; sensory details

53
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William Blake wrote a … called …

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poem; The Tyger

54
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The Tyger is part of a larger work Blake wrote called …., which compares same subject matter in perspective of … and …

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Songs of Innocence and Experience; child; adult

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The Tyger: lamb talking to tiger - “ by what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry.”

frame: …, …; things that … –> the .., …
symmetry: maybe tiger’s …, symmetry between … and …

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contain; create; section off; body; world; stripes; tiger; lamb

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we frame … and look for …

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meaning; symmetry

57
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Shelley’s novel can also be called …: story built of …

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frame narrative; frames

58
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Frames of Shelley’s novel:

… –> … –> … –> … –> … –> … –> … –> .,..

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creator; victor; Robert Walton; Mrs. Saville; 2 prefaces; Epigraph; subtitle; title

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Frames of her novel: … tells creature’s story, … tells Victor’s story which comes from …, comes after …, comes after …, after …, after …

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Victor; Walton; letters; prefaces; epigraph; subtitle; title

60
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Rene Magritte: French artist, drew an image of a … and wrote caption: “….”

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pipe; This is not a pipe

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Rene Magritte

signs are not what they … –> they are … what they represent

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represent; like

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names are bad … –> don’t represent who we are

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signs

63
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when Adam is angry at God, its because he wants

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likeness

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having … is one way we go about making meaning: “
what we …. and what we …
defining ourselves by what is … us and … us

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likeness; are like; do like; like; not like

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testimony: … + … –> a way of … what is happening

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witness; action; assembling

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testimony is what we try to achieve in … ourselves

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defining

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assembles: what is … and …

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shown and told

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mimesis: … (…)
diegesis: … (…)
the word are similar, but not the same thing for these definitions

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imitate; show; narrate; tell

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testimony is action of

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retelling

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creature acts, victor provides his …, and walter provides victor’s …

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testimony; testimony

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assemblage: book is about a man who … another man from dead body parts and stuff, assemblage of … and … and … and … and … –> the work itself is very much like the …

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assembles; shown; told; letters; excerpts; frames; creature

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psychomania doppelgangers: a conflict too great for one … to …
don’t look alike, but …

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soul; handle; share conflict

73
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Shelley calls her author’s introduction an “…”

wants us to think of this work as being a … of its own: should be a .. and an …

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appendage; monster; warning; instruction

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Mary believes that dreaming, act of dreaming, and recording dreams plays crucial role in act of …
has believed this since …
she gets her ideas from her …
dreams are where … come from
assembling what is … and … in … world

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making; childhood; subconscious; stories; shown; told; dream

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Percy wanted to see if Mary was worthy of having been … of such …: she had to prove it by …

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born; intelligent parents; writing

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as a girl, writing was her …. Dreams better than her writing, she thought. Writing then becomes a … for her and is directly tied to her … with Percy –> way of being … part of their relationship

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pastime; duty; relationship; equal

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In Switzerland, they find an old copy of old … in their cabin: Mary pays attention to the ones in which … and … is mingled –> interested in relationship between … and ..

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German folktales; death; life; death; life

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mary speaks about percy … –> thinks Frankenstein is worthless, but cares dearly for what Percy made –> thought Percy’s work was …

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lovingly; beautiful

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Every morning Byron would ask if she wrote a story and she’d have to say no
wanted to write a story that would … –> affect your …

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quicken pace of heart; body

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(letters 1-2) writer: …., a … year-old … who is embarking on a journey to the North Pole region in order to find a passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic

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Robert Walton; 28; sea captain

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(letters 1-2) Walton writing to his …, …, in London

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sister; Mrs. Margaret Saville

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(letters 1-2) Walton prepares for the trip by practice trips in the … of … and … trips

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North Sea of Russia; whaling

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(letters 1-2) Walton is sad that he has no

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friends

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(letters 1-2) Walton is fond of his … and the ship’s …

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lieutenant; master

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(letters 1-2) First letter written from … on …

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St. Petersburgh; Dec. 11th

86
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(letters 1-2) Walton considers himself more … than most

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illiterate

87
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(letters 1-2) … years passed since Walton resolved on his undertaking

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six

88
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(letters 1-2) to prepare, he went on whaling trips to places like … , endured …, …, …, and …, and devoted his nights to the study of …, …, and ….

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Greenland; cold; famine; thirst; sleep deprivation; mathematics; theory of medicine; physical science

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(letters 1-2) he has to dress in … in Russia due to the cold

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furs

90
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(letters 1-2) second letter set in … on …

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Archangel; March 28th

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(letters 1-2) by 2nd letter he has his own … and is hiring …

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vessel; sailors

92
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(letters 1-2) the ship’s master was once engaged but then let the woman go when he found out she … and gave his money to … so they could …

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loved another; her love; get married

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(letters 1-2) walton is going to …, to “the land of … and …”

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unexplored regions; mist; snow

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