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1
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Physically superior appearances of monsters

A

These luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes

2
Q

Destruction of female bodies

A

Trembling with passion told to pieces the thing

3
Q

Difference between physical and intellectual impressions

A

Filthy mass

4
Q

Intellectual curiosity

A

I am thy creature I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather a fallen angel who thou drivest from joy for no misdeed

5
Q

Gender and social class limits the ability of free will

A

A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike adverse to it

6
Q

Social class

A

I now find that I could wander on liberty with no obstacles which I could not either surmount or avoid

7
Q

Repressed desires

A

I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms

8
Q

Dreams and foreshadowing

A

Bloom of death

Hue of death

9
Q

Dreams as a warning

A

The idea so possessed my mind that a thrill of fear ran through me

Oh if I could only contrive one which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened

10
Q

Transgressing boundaries of knowledge

A

Pursued nature to hiding places

New and almost unlimited power

11
Q

Foundries between life and death

A

Life and death appeared in ideal bounds

12
Q

Boundaries of female sexuality

A

Trembling with passion told a thing to pieces

13
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Sexual innocence

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I looked upon Elizabeth as mine