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Frankenstein quotes and themes
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, who thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."- Biblical/ Paradise Lost references
- Lost Innocence
- Ambition and Fallibility
- Family/Society/Isolation - 2"No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs."- Narcissism and Egotism
- Family/Society/Isolation
- Ambition and Fallibility
- Scientific advancement disregarding morality - 3"Evil thenceforth became my good."- Biblical/Paradise Lost references
- Revenge and Antagonism
- Lost innocence - 4"...the poor girl confirmed their suspicion in a great measure by her extreme confusion of manner."- Control held by the justice system
- Representation of women - 5"All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own."- Representation of women
- Narcissism and Egotism - 6"...how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world..."- Ambition and Fallibility
- Idealisation of rural life
- Lost innocence
- Romantic (burdened) male hero
- Scientific advancement disregarding morality - 7"...it was a strange scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me."- Romanticism and Nature
- Setting in gloomy or mysterious places
- Atmosphere of mystery and suspense - 8"...keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined."- Romanticism and Nature
- Scientific advancement with moral disregard
- Romantic (burdened) male hero - 9"You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains- revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!"- Revenge and Antagonism
- Lost innocence
- Overwrought emotion
- Family/Society/Isolation - 10"I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished... breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."- Prejudice
- Lost innocence
- Ambition and Fallibility
- Scientific advancement with moral disregard
- Atmosphere of mystery and suspense
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