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• Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal…

  Letters, Letter 4·Victor Frankenstein

  Responsibility and ConsequencesAmbition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens;…

  Chapter 3

  Ambition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already…

  Chapter 3·Narrator

  Ambition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge…

  Chapter 4·Victor Frankenstein

  Responsibility and ConsequencesAmbition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that…

  Chapter 5·Victor Frankenstein

  Ambition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom…

  Chapter 10·The Creature

  Responsibility and ConsequencesNature versus Nurture

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• Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the…

  Chapter 11·The Creature

  Isolation and AlienationPrejudice and Appearance

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• I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions; but how was I terrified when…

  Chapter 12·The Creature

  Isolation and AlienationPrejudice and Appearance

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• Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

  Chapter 13·The Creature

  Isolation and AlienationPrejudice and Appearance

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• Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the…

  Chapter 15·The Creature

  Revenge and JusticeIsolation and Alienation

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• Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.

  Chapter 15·The Creature

  Isolation and Alienation

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• I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, "I…

  Chapter 16·The Creature

  Revenge and JusticeResponsibility and Consequences

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• I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?

  Chapter 17·The Creature

  Nature versus NurtureIsolation and AlienationPrejudice and Appearance

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• But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive…

  Chapter 19·Victor Frankenstein

  Responsibility and ConsequencesIsolation and Alienation

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• It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.

  Chapter 20·The Creature

  Revenge and Justice

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• You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!

  Chapter 20·The Creature

  Revenge and JusticeResponsibility and Consequences

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• The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and…

  Chapter 21·Victor Frankenstein

  Isolation and Alienation

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• Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and…

  Chapter 21·Victor Frankenstein

  Responsibility and ConsequencesIsolation and Alienation

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• _I will be with you on your wedding-night!_

  Chapter 22·The Creature

  Revenge and Justice

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• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

  Chapter 23·Victor Frankenstein

  Isolation and Alienation

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• By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal…

  Chapter 24·Victor Frankenstein

  Revenge and JusticeResponsibility and Consequences

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• The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in…

  Letters, Walton, _in continuation._·The Creature

  Nature versus NurtureIsolation and Alienation

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• Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing…

  Letters, Walton, _in continuation._·Victor Frankenstein

  Ambition and HubrisKnowledge and Enlightenment

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• Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

  Letters, Walton, _in continuation._·Victor Frankenstein

  Responsibility and ConsequencesAmbition and HubrisIsolation and Alienation

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