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"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation." |
-Frankenstein's ambition |
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"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world" |
-Overflow of emotion |
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“I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death.” |
-Embracing all emotion (joy or melancholy) |
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“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.” |
-Descriptive quote |
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“Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth” |
-Sense of isolation and alienation |
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"I passed whole days on the lake alone in my little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless. But the fresh air and bright sun seldom failed to restore me to some degree of composure” |
-Frankenstein has passed the point where Nature can comfort him |
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“For an instant I dared to take off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self” |
-Symbolism of chains: he is trapped and restricted |
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“I never saw a more interesting creature; his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if any one performs an act of kindness towards him or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness I never saw equalled.” |
-First description of Frankenstein |
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"Even broken inspirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.” |
-Walton's remark about Frankenstein |
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"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish’ |
-Coated and emotive language to reflect individual experience |
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“Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains; the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees, formed a scene of singular beauty...rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all”. |
-NATURE, ALL THE NATURE |
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"I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness.” |
-Excerpt from the Creature's tale |
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“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure”. |
-Conveys the Creature is not inherently evil or malicious and has as much capacity for good as anyone else |
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“I formed in my imagination a thousand pictures of presenting myself to them, and their reception of me…by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.” |
-Desire to be accepted into society: relatable to reader |
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“When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” |
-Creature turns his curiosity and desire for knowledge inwards |
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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust...Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.” |
-Discovers his own individuality; though this does not result in feelings of freedom and sublimity, but rather ones of loneliness and entrapment through his condition |
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“I declare ever-lasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.” |
-rejection experienced by the Creature has the effect of discouraging his positive attributes, and spurring his decline into evil |
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“Let him [man] live with me in the interchange of kindness; and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.” |
-The Creature will be shaped by how he is treated; and therefore there is still possibility for change |
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"...beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." |
-Victor's reaction to creating the monster |
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"My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and become linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded." |
-Alienation from society -Chain of existence; humanity |
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"You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains — revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery." |
-Strong, overflow of emotions |
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"The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness..." |
-Life had been tainted through this experience -Imagery of light -Contrast between environment "happy and gay" and his soul in "dense and frightful darkness" |
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"By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict." |
-Refers to the earth as sacred; akin to being a place of worship |
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"When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone." |
-The Monster to Walton -The fate which has befallen the Creature |
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Philosopher Novalis said: "To romanticise the world is to make us aware of the magic,mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate our senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary" |
Lowy and Sayre authors: "Romanticism could be seen as a response too the unfulfilled promises of the late 18th century." |
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"nothing is so painful to the human mind as great and sudden change" |
"the cup of life was poisoned forever...around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness" |
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Social theorist and philosopher Isaiah Berlin said Romanticism "embodided a new and restless spirit, violently seeking to burst through old and cramping forms...an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life" |
Critic Roger Camien said "Romanticism is aimed to broaden all human horizons and encompass the totality of our experiences" |