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10 Cards in this Set
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CREATURE'S
Accounting for his behaviour, showing how behaviour of others has influenced him and his desire for companionship? |
"I am malicious because I am miserable"
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ELIZABETH
View of men, duality of character |
"Men appear to me as monsters"
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VICTOR
Creature as his double |
"My own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave"
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VICTOR
Creation process = selfish motives, downfall is his own fault, high ambition/selfishness as the source of his problems |
"A new species would bless me as its creator and source"
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VICTOR
Extremes of feeling/emotion - anxiety |
"... an anxiety that almost amounted to agony"
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VICTOR
Extremes of feeling/emotion - ardour |
"... desired it with an ardour that almost exceeded moderation"
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VICTOR
Retrospective narrative, regrets - knowledge |
"How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge"
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VICTOR
Retrospective narrative, regrets - ambition |
"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition"
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SETTING
Sublime lanscapes the evidence how the Romantic movement opened people's eyes to the sublime beauty of nature |
"This wonderful and stupendous scene"
"Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight" (Montanvert) |
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SETTING
Victor's affinity with nature - ecstasy quote |
View at Montanvert = Victor is...
"filled with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul" |
