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Frankenstein quotes: Terror
Frankenstein quotes
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Literature
12th Grade
01/27/2014

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"A fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature"
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Playing god - transgressing boundaries into where they shouldn't be transgressed.
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"undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes"
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exploration and transgression breaks the domestic sphere. Isolation is considered strange, almost sociopathic.
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"my life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic"
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Implies that he doesn't want to be in the domestic sphere - unsettling
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"almost frantic impulse...lost all soul or sensation"
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possessed by his work, he's becoming animalistic and like the monster.
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"nearly in the light of my own vampire"
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he's accepting responsibility for his actions
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"I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me" + "the absence of the object which I now feel as a most severe evil"
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suppressed homosexuality
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"ghosts or devils"
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inside fear, he fears what he's capable of
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