prose quotes

Frank - sublime nature

these sublime and natural scenes

Frank - monster physical isolation

bleak skies hail, for they are kinder to me then your fellow beings, desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge

Victor - playing God

a new species would bless me as it’s creator

monster - religious othering

satan had his companions, but I am solitary and abhorred.

victor - ambition

the world to me was a secret which I desired to dive / penetrate nature

monster - milton

I ought to by thy Adam, yet rather I am thy fallen angel

monster - justice and revenge

was there no justice in this? am I thought to be the only criminal when all humankind has sinned against me

clones acceptance of fate

we thought it made sense

normals looking for clones humanity

we had to see if you had souls at all

monster complete dehumanisation

more hideous than belongs to humanity

victor - hubris and irresponsibility

one man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge

normals fear of clones

but she was scared of us in the way someone might be scared of spiders

clones function

you were simply pawns in a game

monster broken identity

who was I? What was I? whence did I come?

Hailsham identity

the fact we knew and remembered things no one else did

clone’s emotional repression

and the odd thing she was crying

clones denied scientific knowledge

it can all unzip like a bag opening up

monster - knowledge as hope and power

knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure

clones have a specific function

you’ve been brought into this world for a specific purpose

monster - vowing revenge

if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear

blunt rejection of deferrals

there was no truth to that rumour , we don’t screen for that

clones inevitable fate

just going through the motions, waiting for the day they’re told they can stop and become donors

monster- death as escape

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly

quote to compare victors parents and him as a neglectful “parent”

a deep consciousness of what they owed to the being they had given life

guardians as parental figures / longing for parental comfort

she was gentle, soft-spoken, and always comforted you when you need it / dreams of bending the rules and doing something special for us

monster - noble savage / societies fault

I was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend

clones childish live and hope of defferals

if you were a boy and a girl, and you were in love with each other, like really really in love, and you could show it, they could sort it out

monster - denied meaningful relationships

I longed to join them but dared not

clones attitude to sex

it was just something we did / she was going through all the nuts and bolts of how you did it , what went it, the different variations, like this was still geography

monsters eloquence

if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it will be satiated with the blood of you remaining friends

monster believing In power of language

with a gentle demeanour and conciliating words

clones conditioned

you’ve had good lives, you’re educated and cultured

books monster reads + learns

plutarch’s lives - understands the principles of virtue that are denied to him, sorrows of werter - romantic sensibility and emotional depth

paradise lost - his identity and place in the world