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8 Cards in this Set
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'My own vampire' |
The roles in the novel become even more confused when wr consider the repeated suggestion that the creature is Victor's double. |
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'my own spirit let loose from the grave' |
It is quite feasable that all the savagery and violence are Victor's, repressed for many years, but now released, 'let loose' from his darker depths. |
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Definiton and categorisation are repeatedly called into question by the novel, and the figure of the creature itself becomes a sign for the confusion of categories and the difficulties of definiton--- the creature is living, but made of dead parts. |
Jdj |
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' i shall relate events, that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been?), have made me what I am' |
The creature, volume2 |
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"I was their plaything and their idol, and something better -their child, the innocent and hapless creature bestowed on them by heaven." |
On first couple of pages. Victor talking about his parents and him |
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"Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies." |
Hehej |
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The creature wanting victor to make him a companion... "It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Pur lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel... |
Oh! My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit!" pg 148 |
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The creature trying to persuade Victor to make him a companion... "His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that move and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred." |
Pg 149 |
