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- 1Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?Walton
arrogance; ambition; self-entitlement - 2I have a pretty present for my VictorCaroline
- 3She was to be mine onlyVictor
- 4It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learnV
- 5I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledgeV
- 6more hideous than belongs to humanityV about vreature
- 7This was indeed a Godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with itCreature describing language
- 8I possessed no money, no friends, no propertyCreature
- 9Cursed creator! Why did I live? - mirrors epigraphC
- 10Slave...you are my creator, but I am your master - obey!C
- 11They all died at my handsV - self-knowledge/guilt
- 12I am an abortionC
- 13I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiendC
- 14My vices are the children of a forced solitude; my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equalC
- 15How was I terrified, when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!C
- 16the innate character of an individual manifested itself in the person's physical appearanceLavater's treatise on physiognomy
- 17I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosenSays creature to Walton - free will: better to reign in hell than serve in heaven
- 18my heart was fashioned to be susceptible to love and sympathyC
- 19Victor is prejudiced by: 'invincible repugnance to new countenances" his first reaction - "I beheld a wretch"V
- 20V: "relieve me from the sight of your detested form" creature then covers his eyesFrankenstein is misreading creature's countenance
- 21monster! ugly wretch! ... You are an ogre!William
- 22a fatal prejudice clouds their eyesCreature to Father De Lacey
- 23I am blind, and cannot judge of your countenanceFather De Lacey expressed what the reader feels
- 24I called on him to stayWalton - only person to react like this apart from De Lacey
- 25Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind has sinned against me?C
- 26appearances of creature coincide with revelation of sublimeMer de Glace - locus of the sublime;
Orkneys; North Pole - 27a rock, whose sides were continually beaten upon by the wavesOrkneys
- 28the mountainous ices of the oceanNorth Pole
- 29the linguistic process of naming or imaging becomes a discourse of power that results in the domination of a ruling classFoucalt: we use language as an instrument of power, to control the terrors of the unknown
- 30we become what we beholdWilliam Blake
- 31like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hellVictor
- 32I ought to be thy Adam, but I rather the fallen AngelC
- 33When I thought of him, I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamedsaid by Victor
doppelganger
becoming the creature - 34groans and cries rung in my earsnightmare of Victor
V becoming C - 35In a world in which humans phenomenologically construct everthing, the unknown is imaged/read as evilTheseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream: the imagination sees "more devils than vast hell can hold"
- 36M.Shelley critiques Romantic ideology, which promotes the empowerment of human imagination as the arbiter of truthLEARN THIS ONE
- 37human nature is not evil; but humans are more likely to construe it as evilAnne K Mellor
- 38the idealized Clerval prefers the beautiful to the sublimeClerval
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- A-Level English Literature Fichas sobre Frankenstein, creado por yannis.gidopoulo el 15/05/2016.
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