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Themes, Ideas and Messages Categorise
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Ambition
Suffering
Birth and Creation
Science
'The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was forever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him.' (Chapter 5)
'In other studies you go as far as those who have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know...' (Chapter 4)
'I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.' (Chapter 3)
'I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.' (Letter 4)
'I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life...' (Chapter 4)
'I had resolved in my own mind that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness, and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.' (Chapter 20)
'They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places.' (Chapter 3)
'Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.' (Chapter 4)
'I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.' (Chapter 3)
'You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by Heaven, and I dare not.' (Chapter 24)
'A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.' (Chapter 11)
'You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.' (Chapter 24)
'To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.' (Chapter 4)
'I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.' (Chapter 3)
'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)
'My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory.' (Chapter 4)
'Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?' (Chapter 21)
'I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound that shattered the flesh and bone.' (Chapter 16)
'I could not rear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself...' (Chapter 4)