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Humanity - solitary

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“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

2
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Humanity - love/fear

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“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

3
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Humanity - feelings

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“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

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Knowledge - senseless curiosity

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“‘Are you mad, my friend?’ said he; ‘or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! learn my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.’”

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Humanity - remorse

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“Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”

5
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Punishment - frozen

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“His limbs were nearly frozen and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.”

5
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Nature - broken in spirit

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“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.”

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Subjectivity - narration

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“Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he… corrected and augmented them… ‘Since you have preserve my narration,’ said he, ‘I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity’.”

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Knowledge - ignorant

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“‘Man,’ I cried, ‘how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!’”

8
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Humanity - life

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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

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Knowledge - dangerous

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“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge an dhow much much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”

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Power - change

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“The change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete.”

9
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Humanity - truth

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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

10
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Science - life

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“I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.”

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Power - fearless

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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”

13
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Nature - recesses

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“They penetrate into the recesses of nature”

14
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Creator/Created - fallen angel

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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”

15
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Science - ugly

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“Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endured with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on hime while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.”

16
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Knowledge - books

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“They consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives and the Sorrows of Werter.”

17
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Knowledge - soul

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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand”

18
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Humanity - conscience

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“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

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Knowledge - cowardice

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“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquires.”

20
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Humanity - souls

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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”

22
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Science - human nature

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“often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation”

23
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Nature - elevating

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“seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth”

24
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Knowledge - desire

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“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge”

25
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Nature - spring

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“it was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence”

26
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Humanity - impulses

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“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that word may convey to us”

28
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Nature - harmony

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“the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man”

29
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Humanity - change

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

30
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Knowledge - intellectual eye

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“A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye”

32
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Humanity - outward form

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“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me of the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding”

33
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Nature - breeze

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“a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks… fills me with delight”

34
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Humanity - evil

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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

35
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Humanity - sympathy

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“I do know that for the sympathy of one live being. I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

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Knowledge - negligent

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“…come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which, I so negligently bestowed”