Frankenstein-Themes and quotes
- Created by: Roshni Rabheru
- Created on: 04-05-14 10:13
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- Frankenstein
- The double
- "You may be my creator but I am your master."
- "gnashed his teeth"
- "My own spirit let loose."
- Birth and Creation
- "Happy and excellent natures will owe their being to me."
- "Filthy creation."
- "Life to death, death to life."
- "I became capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."
- "Demonical corpse to which I had given life."
- "Selected his featured."
- "New species"
- "I had let loose into the world a depraved wretch."
- Family and the domestic
- "Gentle and feminine fosterage."
- "Deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life."
- "The fine form of man was degraded and wasted."
- Fear of sexuality
- "Mine to protect, love and cherish."
- "Union with Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay"
- "Friendship of a devoted and wonderous nature."
- Alienation
- "I have no friend."
- "I desire the company of a mna,"
- "I bitterly feel the want for a friend."
- "Shunned and hated by all mankind."
- "Abhorred monster"
- "I abhorred the face of man."
- Critique of society
- "Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood."
- "I declare war upon all mankind."
- "Shunned and hated by all mankind."
- Forbidden knowledge.
- "The masters of science sought immortality and power; such views although futile were grand."
- "In a scientific pursuit here is continual food for discovery."
- "Life and death seemed ideal bounds that I should first break through."
- Context
- "Shelley first seduced Mary on top of her mother's grave stone."
- The creature's first murder, is William, Frankys baby bro. This is also the name of Mary's only living child.
- "Both creator and created destroy each others hope of sexual happiness."
- Eve Sedgwick - "Live burial."
- The double
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