Frankenstein quotes and themes
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- Created on: 02-06-13 17:09
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- Frankenstein
- Misogyny/Anti Feminist
- Female monster
- 'ten thousand times more malignant
- 'almost' human
- (men are) 'capable of a more intense application)
- 'her ugly sister'
- Fears marriage/sexuality
- 'union'
- 'expected' 'promised' 'long-awaited'
- Female monster
- Knowledge
- 'sorrow only increased with knowledge'
- 'Of what a strange nature is knowledge!'
- 'How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge'
- 'the secrets of heaven and earth i desired to learn'
- 'In other subjects you can only go as far as others, but in science you can go furthur'
- Nature/Sublime
- 'cold stars shine in mockery'
- 'oh! stars and cloud and winds ye are all about to mock me'
- 'The abrupt sides of vast mountains'
- 'Country of eternal light'
- 'The sublime shape of the mountains... tempest and calm'
- 'A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy'
- Terror
- 'frightful dreams'
- 'I shall be with you on your wedding night'
- 'Children shrieked, and one of the women fainted'
- 'frightened me into silence'
- 'every sound terrified me'
- 'I heard a shrill and a dreadful scream'
- Ambition
- 'seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition'
- 'have you drunk also of the intoxcating draught'
- 'fatal impulse'
- 'one thought, once conception and one purpose.
- 'fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature'
- Misogyny/Anti Feminist
- Misogyny/Anti Feminist
- Female monster
- 'ten thousand times more malignant
- 'almost' human
- (men are) 'capable of a more intense application)
- 'her ugly sister'
- Fears marriage/sexuality
- 'union'
- 'expected' 'promised' 'long-awaited'
- Female monster
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