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21 Cards in this Set
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I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. |
Walton - Family, Isolation and Ambition |
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been. |
Letter 4 Frankenstien- Ambition, lost innocence |
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. |
Chapter 4 Frankenstein- Ambition, Romanticism |
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. |
Chapter 4 Frankenstein- Ambition, lost innocence, romanticism |
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For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. |
Chapter 5 Frankenstein- Ambition, Sacrifice, Prejudice, Lost innocence |
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flash of lightning illuminated the object and discovered its shape plainly to me; |
Chapter 7 Frankenstein- nature parallel to monster. |
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its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy demon to whom I had given life. |
Chapter 7 Frankenstein- description of monster. |
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All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things |
Chapter 10 Monster- Isolation |
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my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties |
Chapter 10 Frankenstein- isolated, lost innocence |
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When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me |
Chapter 13 Monster- isolation prejudice, loneliness |
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Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth |
Chapter 13 monster- isolation, death desirable, prejudice. |
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My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. |
Chapter 16 Monster- isolation, want for companionship |
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I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; |
Chapter 16 Monster- Isolation |
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You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, |
Chapter 20 monster- Revenge driving force, isolated. |
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! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. |
Chapter 20 monster- revenge, suffering, lost innocence. |
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I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast |
Chapter 22 Frankenstein- death desirable, loss of family, revenge |
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the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death |
Chapter 22 Frankenstein- death desirable, deception, foreshadow. |
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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. |
Walton in continuation, Frankenstein- Ambition, Warning, lost innocence. |
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The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. |
Monster- religion, lost faith |
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I am alone. |
Monsters isolation |
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Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? |
Monster- isolation, injustice, prejudice, lost innocence. |
