THEME QUOTES: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN

Question 1

Determined will of mankind-can’t be saved

Answer 1

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Question 2

Power

Answer 2

I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle

Question 3

The need to be successful, to be admired

Answer 3

But success shall crown my endeavours

Question 4

Belief in fate as it allows humanity to be irresponsible

Answer 4

The Angel of destruction

Question 5

Power and holding on the knowledge

Answer 5

You expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted

Question 6

Mankind greedy for knowledge

Answer 6

Search of the Philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life

Question 7

Invading nature

Answer 7

They penetrate into the recess of nature

Question 8

Both the monster and Victor resort to this-little more than animals

Answer 8

Gnashed his teeth

Question 9

Suffering of mankind encapsulated in the suffering of the creature

Answer 9

I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch

Question 10

Victor’s rejection of society-need to suffer

Answer 10

Solitude was my only consolation-deep, dark, deathlike solitude

Question 11

Creature demands respect-a sense of duty marks him as a human over an animal

Answer 11

Do your duty towards me

Question 12

Human responsibility (Victor owes the monster)

Answer 12

Did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that is in my power

Question 13

Elizabeth’s lament to Victor

Answer 13

Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood

Question 14

Clerval’s observation of the landscape produces his statements

Answer 14

This is what it is to live…Now I enjoy existence

Question 15

Humanity needs a cautionary tale

Answer 15

She might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate

Question 16

Humanity’s responsibility

Answer 16

Had I a right for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?

Question 17

Humanity needing power (monster)

Answer 17

Remember that I have power

Question 18

Offred’s desperation for power

Answer 18

We still had our bodies. That was our fantasy.

Question 19

Humanity’s need to storytelling and storied (THT)

Answer 19

I would like to believe this is the story I’m telling. I need to believe it.

Question 20

The search for knowledge (THT)

Answer 20

But I’m ravenous for news, it must mean something.

Question 21

Offred’s mind freedom-space needed

Answer 21

The night is my own time, to do with as I will.

Question 22

Humanity’s need to make things bearable (THT)

Answer 22

When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out

Question 23

Adapting (THT)

Answer 23

Humanity is so adaptable

Question 24

The need to exist-the need to survive (THT)

Answer 24

I am, I am, I am, still

Question 25

Offred feels it is-do we need love and companionship to survive

Answer 25

Love is not the point