Frankenstein Flashcards

(33 cards)

1
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I collect…

A

I collect the instruments of life around me

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2
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I held the…

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I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms
[..] I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel.

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3
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Was man….

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Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?

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4
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I remembered Adam’s….

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I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.

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5
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Cursed, cursed…..

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Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?

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6
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The wretch saw me….

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The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness.

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7
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I ought to be thy……

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I ought to be thy Adam ; but I am rather the fallen angel. Whom thou drive set from joy for no misdeed

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8
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Man..

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Man child

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9
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Who is Aldini and Galdini

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Aldini- conducted experiments on criminals
Galdini- conducted experiments on frogs

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10
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I should first breakthrough

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I should first breakthrough and pour a torrent of light into a dark world

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11
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I still have the final form of man was degraded and wasted

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I saw how the final form of math was degraded and wasted how the corruption of death succeeded the blooming cheek of life

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12
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She was there lifeless

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She was there lifeless and inanimate thrown across the bed her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features have covered by her hair

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13
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Inflamed by pain

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And framed by pain, I found eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind

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14
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To whose knee clown

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To whose knees I climb in a transport of fury, he crashed into the ground and struck him violently with a stick

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15
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A lamp that shone

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A lamp that shone brightly in our peaceful home

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16
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I belonged to join them, but they not

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I longed to join them, but they’re not. I remembered too well. The treatment I had suffered the night before from the Barbarians villages.

17
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Our lives will not be happy

A

Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the military. I now feel.

18
Q

After so much time spent in painful labour

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After so much time spent in painful labour to arrive at once at the Summit of my desires with the most gratifying consummation of my toils

19
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the deformity of its aspect more hideous

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the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity

20
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filthy

21
Q

I felt tormented

A

I felt tormented by hunger and thirst.

22
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I was a poor, helpless,miserable wretch

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I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish nothing, but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.

23
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In my joy

A

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain. How strange..

24
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This was a new sight for me, and I

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This was a new sight for me, and I examined the structured with great curiosity

25
I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering
I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain of pleasure.
26
I saw no cause
I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it.
27
I discovered
I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours.
28
But where were my friends and relations?
But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles.
29
Cursed, cursed, cursed
Cursed, cursed, cursed creator! Why do I live?
30
Despair had not yet taken possession of me
Despair had not yet taken possession of me; my feelings were those of rage and revenge
31
I could with pleasure have destroyed
I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants.
32
I could have torn
I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope.
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The picture I present to you
The picture I present to you is peaceful and human