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24 Cards in this Set
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Victor - nature vs nurture. Mothers with the creature. "One hand..." |
"One hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me" |
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Frankenstein about Elizabeth - protection |
"Mine to love, protect and cherish" |
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Walton and the artic. Light |
"What may not be expected in a country of external light" |
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Walton - setting and danger |
"The pole is a seat of frost and desolation" |
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Walton- about the creature and his looks |
"A body which had the shape of a man" |
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The creature - destruction. Nature vs nurture |
"Bore a hell within me" and "spread havoc and destruction around me" - has to show how he feels. Lack of nurture leads to this nature |
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Frankenstein - destruction and obsession making the creature |
"Which bore me onwards, like a hurricane" - for shadows destruction |
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Frankenstein talking about Elizabeth- her looks |
"Blue eyes cloudless" and "very fair' - damsel in distress |
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Frankenstein and the night he made the creature |
"A dreary night in november" |
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Frankenstein and his obsession of knowledge - enlightenment |
"The world to me was a secret I desired to devine" |
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The creature and being the outsider - paradise lost |
"I ought to be the Adam, but rather I am the fallen angel" - god. Victor is not god so creates something horrifying. |
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The creature - isolation and talking about his nature. Noble savage |
"I saw and heard none like me. Was I then a monstee" |
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Frankenstein - revenge. Showing that the creature cannot escape |
"To seek the one who fled from me" - relates to TBC - girl cannot flee the man. Both man and Victor act like god |
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Victor and sublime after creating the creature |
"Black and comfort less sky" - connotes danger and the unknown. Relates to lady, however she is the darkness |
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Light and Victor when creating the creature. |
"My candle was nearly burnt out" - juxtaposition. Creating life but also going to end his life. Relates to Elizabeth dying as she is "light" |
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Victor and the artic |
"Surrounded by ice", "thick fog" and "hundred miles from land" - isolation. Feeling what the creature is feeling. |
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Setting that gives Victor inspiration |
"Thunder burst...from heaven" - wants power like god to create life like Thunder. Wants god like power. Luigi Galvani |
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Walton abiut Victor |
"Interesting creature...his eyes expressed madness" - duality between victor and the creature. Both called creature. Turning into one |
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Creature about killing William |
"Grasped his throat to silence him" - shows he is gentle, not a violent nature. Relates to lady |
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Victor and being self centered |
"The tortures of the accused did not equal mine" - shows he does not feel sorry for the creature |
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Creature and nature vs nurture |
"I am malicious because I am miserable" |
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Victor and revenge |
"Revenge kept me Alive" |
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" - represents the vengeance of the monster |
"A fierce wind" |
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Victor and sexuality |
"In discovering the cause of generation and life", "filthy lab" - does not feel sexually attracted to women, no sexual desires, shows his mind also |
