Creature

Cards (9)

  • If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
  • All men hate the wretched

    • Monster to Frankenstein about existence
    • Hyperbole
    • Ashamed
    • Society prejudice
    • Rousseau of society should be of natural state because organised society corrupts human harmony
    • Being the result of Frankenstein's impure and blasphemous ambition
    • Existence impure and imperfect of human creation
    • Could've been welcomed in despite his abhorrent appearance if society not organised
  • Gentle ass who's intentions were affectionate, but manner was rude,
    • Society prejudice
    • Animal imagery
    • Rousseau
    • Appearance vs. reality
  • Did I request thee Maker to mould me man?

    • Paradise lost/intertexuality
    • Parallel of monster to Frankenstein
    • Religous/Biblical Symbolism
    • Cursed existence
  • When they were unhappy, I felt depressed, when they were rejoicing, I sympathised with their joys
    • Monster
    • Capable of empathy, caring, loving, intelligent on the inside
    • Shelly reinforcing belief about looking at the heart than appearance
  • I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam
    • Biblical imagery and comparison
    • Monster making reference to his relationship to Frankenstein as God and Adam
    • Irony of him being the fallen angel of Satan instead of being the amiable creation that was Adam
    • Cursed existence
    • Prejudice
    • Frankenstein's result of ambition to be disastrous and perilous
    • Result of meddling with creation
    • Creation sacred
    • Frankenstein experienced isolation and suffering like Adam and Eve did when they seeked for knowledge
  • These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings

    • Social prejudice
    • Romantism.
    • Pathetic fallacy
    • Juxtaposition
    • Nature.
    • Consequence of unnatural creation
  • How dare you sport thus with life?
  • I was benevolent and good; it was misery that made me a fiend