prose copying quotes

Question 1

frankenstein: the copies are made for selfish purposes

Answer 1

“what glory would attend the discovery… banish disease… render men invulnerable to any but a violent death. “

Question 2

NLMG: the copies are made for selfish purposes

Answer 2

“you were bought into this world for a purpose and your futures, all of them, have been decided”

Question 3

Frankenstein: the humans are afraid of the copies they have made

Answer 3

“the beauty of the dream had vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”

Question 4

NLMG: the humans are afraid of the copies they have made

Answer 4

“I can still see it now, the shudder she seemed to be suppressing, the real dread that one of us would accidentally brush against her”

Question 5

Frankenstein: the copies merely a collection of body parts

Answer 5

“i collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame”

Question 6

NLMG: the copies merely a collection of body parts

Answer 6

“when the time came you’d be able to just unzip a bit of yourself, a kidney or something would slide out and you’d hand it over”

Question 7

Frankenstein: the copies are never seen as equal they are always treated as inferior and ‘other’

Answer 7

“devil”, “all men hate the wretched”

Question 8

NLMG: the copies are never seen as equal they are always treated as inferior and ‘other’

Answer 8

“at this very moment there are students being reared in deplorable conditions”

Question 9

Frankenstein: the copies are likened to animals

Answer 9

“the strong nature of the animal “

Question 10

NLMG: the copies are likened to animals

Answer 10

“the cottages were the remains of a farm”

Question 11

Frankenstein: there is a desire to use copying to make superior human beings

Answer 11

“his limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful!”

Question 12

NLMG: there is a desire to use copying to make superior human beings

Answer 12

“what he wanted was to offer people the possibility of having children with enchanted characteristics, superior intelligence, superior athleticism”

Question 13

Frankenstein: the copies are created to banish disease and death

Answer 13

“what glory would attend the discovery… banish disease… render men invulnerable to any but a violent death. “

Question 14

NLMG: the copies are created to banish disease and death

Answer 14

“their overwhelming concern was that their own children, spouses, their parents, their friends did not die”

Question 15

Frankenstein: characters learn behaviour by copying what ‘real’ humans do

Answer 15

“and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, on regarding me have changed that out of the divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright”

Question 16

NLMG: characters learn behaviour by copying what ‘real’ humans do

Answer 16

“so many of their mannerisms were copied from the television”

Question 17

Frankenstein: the copies feel they will be accepted if they copy the behaviour they see

Answer 17

“I ought not to make the attempt until i had first become master of their language which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure”

Question 18

NLMG: the copies feel they will be accepted if they copy the behaviour they see

Answer 18

“she set about changing how they did things in front of people”

Question 19

Victor is ultimately disappointed in the copy he has made as it is flawed

Answer 19

“these luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast “

Question 20

the creature’s beginning is a strange copy of real life- he is ‘birthed’

Answer 20

“my labours would soon end”

“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs “

Question 21

the creatures early life and development is a copy of real life

Answer 21

“it is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being: all the events of that period appear confused”

Question 22

there is a fear that the created copy will have an individual identity

Answer 22

“who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply “

Question 23

the substitute copy of the cassette that Ruth buys suggests that things that seem the same are not

Answer 23

“I took out the tape out of my bag with a disappointed air and I’m not sure the disappointment wasn’t still their on my face while I examined it”

Question 24

Madame and miss Emily believe the clones will learn to be human by copying the ‘humane’ treatment they experience

Answer 24

“most importantly, we demonstrated to the world that if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being”

Question 25

the clones show real humanity towards each other

Answer 25

“i immediately set off to look for Tommy because i desperately wanted him to hear it first from me “

Question 26

the clones’ status as copies is symbolised in the description of the recovery centre

Answer 26

“the recovery rooms are small but they’re well-designed and comfortable “