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(victor) cursed be the days,abhorred devil, in which you first saw light! Cursed(although O curse myself) be the hands that formed you! You have made me wretched beyond expression" |
Shelley representi g the conflicting figures as gothic doubles and therefore the complex relationship between apprarance and mentality, further blurring the boundaries between the monster and the human. |
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"I shall anscend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames" |
Speaking in the future tense elevates the creature above the novel, showing that regardless of how we interpret the story, the fear of the monster will exist |
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Issh |
Heu |
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Creature- "from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery" |
;( le cry |
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(victor) "as the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance too my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionally large." |
Jdneieiegwg |
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Very soon after the creature comes to life.... (victor) "the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life" "No mortal could support the horror of that countenance" |
Bsieh |
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"A mummy againendued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived" |
Le crycry |
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When the creature meets victor for the first convo time in the alps: "i will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends." |
It is then juxtaposed with the creatur's next bit of speech being:" be calm! I intreat you to hear me, before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have i not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?" |
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The creature appears more intelligent than Victor when they first speak together.... |
"Rememebr, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple." |
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"I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural Lord and King, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou... |
Owest me." |
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"Where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses... I had never yet seen a being resembling me.. What was I?" |
After seeing the delacey family |
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When the creature fins his books.... "The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; i now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations" |
Jej |
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"I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books" |
Bejei |
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"Paradise lost excited different and far deeper emotions" |
"It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent god warring with his creatures was capable of exciting" |
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"Thanks to the lessons of felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned how to work mischief. " |
Pg 145 |
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Says to victor after the creature finds out that victor has destroyed the second creature... "Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. YOU ARE MY CREATOR, BUT I AM YOUR MASTER" |
Sidkk |
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"Shall each man' cried he, 'find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?" |
Iwjw |
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful... Man, you shall repent on the injuries you inflict." |
Pg 173 |
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When victor begins to fear for the creature's to be with him "on his wedding night", victor says "i should almost regard him as invincible" ... "I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable" |
Hjo |
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Walton- final pages... " i was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet when i called to mind what frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me. Wretch!" |
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