Frankenstein

Knowledge- Beginning

"Smitten with the thirst for knowledge."

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Knowledge- Beggining

"The world to me was a secret which I desired to divine."

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Prejudice- Beggining

"Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murder I could not doubt it."

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Prejudice- Beggining

"For indeed I had rather forever be ignorant that have discovered so much depravity and ungratitude in one I value so highly."

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Revenge- Beggining

"Come, Victor, not brooding thoughts of vengence...but feelings

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Revenge- Beggining

"Itr was the wretch. The filthy demon which I had given life..."

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Family- Beggining

"No human could have passed a happier childhood than myself."

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Family - Beggining

"I looked upon Elizabeth as mine- mine to protect, love and cherish."

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Creation- Beggining

"Torture the living animal to animate the lifeless day."

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Creation - Beggining

"A new species would bless me as its creator."

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Society & Isolation- Beggining

In a solitary chamber, rather a cell...seperated from all... my workshop a filthy creation."

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Society & Isolation- Beggining

"-Greater than his nature will allow..."

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Knowledge - Mid

"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success."

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Prejudice - Mid

"Rise my poor girl...I am not one of your enimies, I believe you guiltless..."

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Revenge - Mid

" I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me"

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Family- Mid

"I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her."

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Creation - Mid

"I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear..."

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Society & Isolation - Mid

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel."

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Knowledge- End

"Never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness."

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Prejudice - End

"Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?"

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Revenge- End

"I shall be with you on your wedding night..."

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Family- End

""Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live."

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Creation- End

""My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred..."

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Society & Isolation - End

""Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of human kind whom these eyes will ever behold."

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CONTEXT - Gothic

The gothic genre includes: *Wild landscapes *Ruined/grotesque buildings *imagery of darkness *Shadow and decay *Isolation/lonliness *horror/terror *multiple narrators *crime/law *absolute power *stock characters (absent mum, villian, lover etc.)

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CONTEXT- Romanticism

*Emotions are more important than logic and reason *Importance of nature *Optimism *Focused on individual *Imagination

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CONTEXT- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

*18th-century philosopher believed that humans are not quite born as ablank slate, but with tow instincts 1) self-preservation 2) compassion

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CONTEXT- John Lock

*Philosopher that belived in "tabula rasa", which believed that humans are born as a blank slate and are moulded by our expereinces, society and the people we surround ourselfs with.

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CONTEXT- Paradise lost

*Paradise lost is all about the story of Adam and Eve, and how they were placed in the garden of Eden. It also includes the story of Satan, and angle in heaven who led a war against God. God banished him to hell, his revenge ledto the downfall of man

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