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Elizabeth's Appearance 1
'a child fairer than a painted cherub'
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Elizabeth's Appearance 2
'shed radiance from her looks'
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Elizabeth as a Possession 1
'till death she was to be mine only'
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Elizabeth as a Possession 2
'the saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our home'
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The Monster's Appearance 1
'these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes'
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The Monster's Appearance 2
'My person was hideous and my structure gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come?
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The Monster's Appearance 3
'Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?'
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The Monster as Hated 1
'I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster to whom I had given life'
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The Monster as Hated 2
'The demoniacal corpse to whom I had given life'
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The Monster as Monstrous 1
'I will glut the maw of death till it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends'
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The Monster as Hated 3
‘Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light!’
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Victor's Ambition 1
‘what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!’
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Victor's Ambition 2
'Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock'
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Victor's Hatred of the Monster 1
'The beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart'
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Victor's Hatred of the Monster 2
'The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes'
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Victor's Delusions 1
'All voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost'
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Victor's Delusions 2
'He can tell- Oh save me! save me!'
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Victor's ego
'The tortures of the accused did not equal mine'
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Walton's Ambition 1
'I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep’
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Walton's Ambition 2
'What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?'
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Walton's Admiration of Victor
‘He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated; and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence’.
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Prejudice 1
'wretched mockery of justice'
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Prejudice 2
'All men hate the wretched, how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!’
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Prejudice 3
'What hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures; who spurn and hate me?'
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Prejudice 4
'Everywhere I see bliss, from which I am irrevocably excluded’
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Prejudice 5
'monster! ugly wretch! you wish to eat me’
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Nature vs Nurture 1
'I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel’
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Nature vs Nurture 2
'Begone vile insect!'
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Nature vs Nurture 3
'I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend'
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Nature vs Nurture 4
'relieve me from the sight of your detested form'
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Science vs Nature 1
'My eyes were insensible to the charms of nature'
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Science vs Nature 2
'I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves- sights which before always yielded me supreme delight'
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Science vs Nature 3
'I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me'
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Science vs Nature 4
'I saw lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures'