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Garden quotes

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“i once had a garden”

“the garden is the domain of the wife”

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“dull yellow…”

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“dull yellow eye of the creature opens”
-the uncanny
-gothic imagery
-refelcts a tained and corrupt soul

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“hair was…”

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“hair was of a lustrous black”
-physignomy (phical appearence reflects moral purity)
-black is associated with sin and the devil

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“beautiful..”

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“beautiful, beautifual Great God”
-ecophonesis
-monstrous sublime
-overwhelming dread
-horror and disgust
-religous subversion

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what happens in chapter 5?

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frankensetin creates the creature and abondons it, splliping into a depressive episode

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“one hand..”

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“one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me”
-“seemingly” victors uncertain + own interpretation
-innocence if the creature reaching out for paternal comfort
-Roussous noble savage

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“i passed..”

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“i passed the night wretchedly”
-moral corruption that defines all victors actions and consumes his identity
-parralles him with the creature
-gothic dopplegangers

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what happens in chapter 8?

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The creature has killed William and Justine is on trail for murder after being framed by the creature. Victor refuses to admit the truth. Victor refuses to admit the truth.

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what is a post lapsarian lens?

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viewing the world through the lens of the biblical concept of the fall of humanity. the human condition as it exists after the expulsion from the garden of earth

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“fear and”

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“fear and hatred of the crime”
-hendiadys
-double persecution of Justine for breaking the law-gender expecations (double expectations)
-fear of female evil/corruption-post lapsarian lens as women as the downfall of soecity

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“acted towards”

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“him like the most affectionate mother”
-simile + superlarlative
-elizabth tries to use the power of feminity to combat the patrichial justice system
-all women in Frankensstein are placed in a similar reduced domestic role

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“i believe…”

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” i believe and rely on her perfect innocence”
-hendidys
-elizabeths confidence in her voice yet lack of power agaisnt patrichiary
-highlights elizabeths composure and articulation
-subverts gothic ideas of women swooning in times of emotional distress (instead this is victor in this scene”

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“she has no temptation”

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“she has no temptation for such an action”
-subverts a post-lapsarian lens
-women as temptresses and innate sinners

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“Justine”

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-Nomenclature-Justice
-Ironic as justines charcter represents misjustice in soceity as a result of androcentricism
-exposes elizabeth to the patrichial truth of society in which all institutions work to benefit men
-marxist interpretation-justine represnets the power of the boujese to scape goat their crimles on protolact

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what happens in chapter 12?

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-after being scorned by mankind the creature settles in the woods by the De Lacy home
-he observes the family from their home

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“there was indeed”

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“there was indeed a godlike science”
-refferring to language
-difference between victor and creature
-vivtors godlike science is progression of science that defines the human condition
-the creatures science that will did his understanding of humanity

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“when they were unhappy”

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“when they were unhappy, i felt depressed, when they rejoiced, i sympathised in their joys”
-creatures capacity for empathy
-tender, sensitive compasionate being
-roussous noble savage-creature presents a primative form of human man kind idolised in romanticism for symbolising the innate goodness of society

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“these labours”

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“these labours performed by an invsiible hand greatly astonished them”
-creature referring to the tasks he performs to did the de lacy family
-invisible hand parrelled to god as a merciful provider
-according to adam smith the invisible hand is unseen forces such as greed and self interest thta guides societies prosperity
-does the creature do this out of the goodness of his heart or alterior motives to establish connection

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“the birds sang”

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“the birds sang in more cheerful tones and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees”
-the creatures connection to nature (different from victor who rejoins nature)
-suggests that the creature isnt the subservision of nature, victors ambition is

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what happens in chapter 20?

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-the creature has askled victor to create a female creature to act as his comparison and promises to end his torment to soceity once he has a friend
-victor leaves to orkeneys to create the creature but ultimately decides agaisnt it.

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“the moon was”

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“the moon was just rising from the sea”
-gothic pathetic fallacy
-motif of the moon interlinks the destruction of the female creature to the same tragic tragectory of science that kills elizabeth
-moon is also depicted as a guiding light for the creature but an oppressive force for victor
-acts as a witness for his crime

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“was to become”

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“was to become a thinking and reasoning animal”
-hendiadys
-fear of female autonomy + free thought/ will
-zoomorphism- revolutaionary women
-post lapsarian view of women as innate sinners
-the female creature is not viewed as tabula rasa but the male creature is
(double standard of religion)

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“you are my creator”

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“you are my creator but i am your monster-obey”
-reversal of hirchary/ power
-creatures capacity for autonomy
-the creature uspuring victors god-like power
-critique of social power-oppressed people in society cannot be expected to remain passive-french revolution

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What happens in chapter 23?

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-victor and elizabth have got married
-Victor is expecting the creature to kill him on the wedding night but the creature actually kills elizabeth
-inb this chapter he refers to geneva and his father dies and he is imprisoned (possibly in an asylum)

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"why am i here"
"why am i here to relate the destruction of the best hope and purest creature on earth" -elizabth as a symbol of hope for victor and humanity -embodied in the goodness of humanity -link the advancement of science to the supression of hope "creature" parallels Elizabeth to the creature perhaps emphasise her purity
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"pale yellow light"
"pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber" -motif of the moon -links back to 'yellow eyes' in chapter 5 gothic uncanny, how the creature how he sees the world -inevitable tragectory of science to female death/ suppression of hope -cosmic irony-cyclical structure
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"a grin was on the face"
"a grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer" -'grin wrinckled his lips' cyclic structure/ cosmic irony -moral corruption of the creature -satifaction in revenge and blood lust he previously denounced -noble savage
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"i dream that"
"i dreamt that i wandered in flowery meadows and pleasant vales with the friends of my youth" -romantics view of nature and immigration -restoration of victors human condition as he longs to return to nature and family
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"a solitary chamber"
"a solitary chamber has been my habituation" -linked to promethian myth-punsihment of eternal solitude -forced rejection of the human condition in his insaity -subverts typical view of the romantic brooding individual
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introdction standard sentence
Both authors Shelly and Atwood, achieve such scrutiny in a satirical manner by establishing their novels as social satires, the difference being Atwood perhaps archives her satire through the dystopian genre of her novel whereas Shelly can be seen to categorise her novel as gothic possibly to evoke fear to the readers
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'off her own'
'off her own clothes and put on those of Aunt Eliazabeth'
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'i will pioneera new"
'I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers and unfold the world to the deepest mysteries of creation’
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'a new species'
'a new species would bless me its creator’
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'have three or four"
'have three or four good years before your snatch wears out and then they send you to the boneyard'
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'has i a light'
'has I a light of my own benefit to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations’.
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'wished to'
'has I a light of my own benefit to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations’
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companionshiop tracked through frankensetin narrative
'I have no friend'-walton 'i desire the compmnay of a man who woudl symphaise with me' 'you must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathise necessary for my being' 'my mothers tender caresses and my fathers beneovelent smile of pleasure'
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commander and ick wanting attachment with offred
'like being on a date' 'winks'
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'the night is mine'
'the night is mine, my own time'
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'as long as i lie still'
'as long as i lie still. the difference between lie and lay'
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'consited of Paradise"
"consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarchs lives and the sorrows of werter
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'I ought to be"
"I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel”
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"everlasting"
"everlasting war agaisnt humanity"
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infantalisation
'beacuse i have been good' 'i wanted to turn her into an older sister, a motherly figure, soemone who could understand and protect me' 'the childish allure of dressing up' 'without a uniform he looks smaller' 'bedtime story'
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'I lie there'
'I lie there like a dead bird'
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'i never looked'
'i never looked good in red, its not my colour'
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'my name isnt offred, "
“my name isn’t Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because its forbidden" Nomenclature.
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"the wings around"
"the wings around my face is red: the colour of blood which defines us"
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"i rembered Adams supplication to his creator"
"Remembered Adams' supplication to his creator. But where was Ine? He had abandoned me”
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Creature as noble savage
“I saw, felt, heard and smelt”
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quotes about the feamle creature
"she who in all probability, was top become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation” “she might also turn in disgust from him to the superior of man, she might quit him”
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"mine to protect,"
“mine to protect, love and cherish.. she was to be mine only”
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memories of luke
"its only a job, he said trying to soothe me” “I thought, already has starting to patronise me” “we are not each others anymore. Instead I am his”
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"i want you to kiss me"
"i want you to kiss me said the commander"
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"theres no doubt"
"theres no doubt about who has the real power"
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"men at the top,"
"men at the top ahve always had mistresses, why should things be any different now"
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Eliazabeth quotes
"till death she was to be mine only’ ‘all praises bestowed on her, I received as made to possession of my own” “she was there lifeless and inanimate”
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Justine quotes
"god only knows how innocent I am. But I do not pretend that my protestation should acquit me. I rest my innocence on the plain and simple explanation of facets” “but I, he true murder” “the first hapless victims”
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"pen is envy"
Frudian conscept of Penis envy "feels the power of the pen"
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"there is nothing is the novel"
"there is nothing in the novel that hasnt happened ebfore, somewhere"
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Egg quotes
"Healthy foods" "i could lift the telephone and food would appear on the tray, food i had chosen" "if i had an egg was more could i want" "america is dying of choice" "a womans torso in a skirt" "the skirt was ankle elnegth, full and gathered to a flat yoke" "two legged wombs" "will have a green film on the yolk, that will taste faintly of sulphur"
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"notile"
‘notile te bastardes carborundorum’
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"we learned to whisper"
"we learned to whisper almost without sound"
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"its an oasis"
"its an oasis of the forbidden"
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"now its forbidden"
"now its forbidden" "now its dangerous" "now its desirable"
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"by that time she was working for the womens collective"
"by that time she was working for women’s collective, the publishing division. They put out books on birth control and rape and things like that through there wasn’t much demand for those things as there used to be”-
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what book was read to safe
'ruins of empires"
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"when i imagine the woman who wrote them."
“when I imagine the woman who wrote them. I turn to Moira, Moira as she was when she was in college”
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"she was a danger"
"she was a danger to us, we knew that" "moira has power now"
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"you cant help what you feel"
“you can’t help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave”
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"shes frightening me now"
“she’s frightening me now because what I hear in her voice is indifference”
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"at perhaps the price"
"at perhaps the price of the whole human race"
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"i think of her"
“I think of her, even though it did not allow. I think of her often” structural choices of her thinking about her daughter before prayganza
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"i am alone and miserable"
“I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me”
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The salvaging quotes
"a mummur of readines and anger" "the crimes of others were like a secret alnagueg between us" "nostrils flare, sniffing death" "i want to go to bed, make love, right now, i think of the world. Delish. I could eat a horse"
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"it became a torrent"
“it became the torrent which has swept away all my hopes and joys”
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Iris quotes
" framed with no glass; a print of flowers blue irises, water colour, flowers are still allowed" "shy blue with emboradary in white along the edges the the veil" "eyes hostile" "her chin was clenched like a fist" "sluts" "littel whores all of them"
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Tulips
"the tulips atre opening their cups spilling out colour. The tulips are red a darker crimson twoards the stem" "the tulips are wider tahn ever, opening no longer winecups but challenges" "subject to the breeding of the Gardner" "teh red simel is the same as the red tulips in serena joys garden towards the base of flowers where they are beginning to heal"
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names of proffessors in historical notes
proffesor piexto and professor wade
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"up to professor wade"
"up to professor wade and myself to arrange the blocks of speech"
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semantic feild of mechanics to descirbe the cermony
"process" "product"
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"what he is fucking"
"what he is fucking is teh lower part of my body"
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The wall quotes
"the bags over the heads are the worst" "were supposed to look at what they are hanging on the wall"
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Soul scrolls quotes
"are supposed to be a sign of pity and faithfullness to the regime" "the comamnders wives do it a lot and it helps the hsubands careers" "do yiou think god listens to the machines"
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"gos is a"
"god is a national resource"
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"toxic dumps"
"toxic dumps and radiation spills"
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Scrabble quotes"
"i would like to put them in my mouth. the letter C. Crispy. slightly acod on the tonnage. Delicious" "larynx" "Wallace" "zygote"
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"but look at the stats"
"but look at vthe stats my dear. was it really worth it falling in love?"
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dandelion quotes
"permantly yellow like the sun:" "not a dnadelion in light here"

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