Creature
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- Created on: 04-04-13 12:27
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- Creature
- Solitude
- "irrevocably excluded" p. 78
- "miserably alone" p. 78
- Becoming miserable and evil
- Reference to "Pandæmonium" the capital city of Hell in "Paradise Lost" p.82
- "lake of fire" p.82
- "I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am" p.88
- "miserable deformity" p.88
- Reference to "Pandæmonium" the capital city of Hell in "Paradise Lost" p.82
- Semantic field of pain/ misery
- "Have I not suffered enough?" p.77
- "miserable beyond all living things" p. 77
- Social conditioning
- "heard details of vice and bloodshed" when listening to Felix read a book to Safie p. 92-93
- Other people are shocked when they see him. "some fled, some attacked" p.82
- "Women fainted" "children shrieked" p.82
- Causes him to think he is a figure to be hated, and there is something wrong with him.
- "crept from my kennel" p.83
- Sees himself as a lesser animal to humans.
- "the strange system of human society was explained to me" p.93
- Learns about what he doesn't have "father doted on the smiles of the infant" p. 93
- "where were my friends and relations?" p. 94
- "suspension of disbelief" - Coleridge. C could not have learnt language - impossible
- C's register is very human which makes it easier to sympathise with him.
- The De Lacy familly
- Makes C hopeful which gives the reader hope.
- "I should first win their favour, and afterwords their love" p.89
- C learns to relate to other people "When they were unhappy, I was depressed" p.87
- makes his story more believable by speaking of other people's pain too. "I observed the countenance of Felix was melancholy" p.92
- C sees them as a "good" family but they're not in society's eyes.
- They greeted C with "horror and consternation"p.104
- Shows he will never be accepted.
- Fear ties humans together
- Makes C hopeful which gives the reader hope.
- Fire is deceptive - beautiful but painful - Appearances can be deceiving.
- Solitude
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