Summary Human Individuality And Procreation Quotes
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Unit 2 - Prose (9ET0)
Institution
PEARSON (PEARSON)
This document contains detailed analysis, context and in-depth tragic convention exploration for the Drama section of the Edexcel A-Level English Literature course. Further support is given to students with the inclusion of quotation banks and critical theory providing students with the foundations...
‘Inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind to the last generation’
- Letter 1
‘But success shall crown my endeavours’ - Letter 3
‘Gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance
of my enterprise’ - Letter 4
‘Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could
banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a
violent death!” - Chapter 2
‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source’ – Chapter 4
‘The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’
– Chapter 5
“It became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived” – Chapter 5
‘Devil’ - Chapter 10
‘All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all
things!’ Chapter 10
‘Yet you my creator detest and spurn me’ - Chapter 10
‘I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel’
- Chapter 10
“you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature’ - Chapter 10
, ‘Was I then a Monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all
men disowned?’ – Chapter 13
‘But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no
mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses’ – Chapter 13
‘He (Adam) was allowed to converse with… being of a superior nature: but I was
wretched, helpless, and alone.” – Chapter 15
“I considered myself Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him,
when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me”
– Chapter 15
‘God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a
filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his
companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and
abhorred’ – Chapter 15
‘Cursed, cursed creature!’ – Chapter 15
‘He (Adam) was allowed to converse with, acquire knowledge from, being of a
superior nature: but I was wretched, helpless, and alone. Many times, I considered
myself Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed
the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me' - Chapter 15
‘Cursed, cursed creature!’ - Chapter 16
‘Shall I respect man when he condemns me’ – Chapter 17
‘Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own’ – Walton Continuation
“Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition,” – Walton Continuation
‘The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil’ – Walton Continuation
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