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157 Cards in this Set
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(Justine) Confident
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in innocence
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join with my enemies
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to crush and condemn me
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public
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indignation
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fear and hatred of the crime...
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rendered them timorous
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already
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condemned
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execrated by
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thousands
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threatened
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excommunication
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my confessor has
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besieged me
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wretched mockery
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of justice
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victims
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to my unhallowed arts
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(Victor) ravings
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of a mad man
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bore a hell
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within me
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torn by remorse
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horror and despair
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(Victor) I suffered
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living torture
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(M.Waldman) decided
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my future destiny
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(M.Waldman)Penetrate
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into the recesses of nature
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(M.Waldman) ascend
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into the heavens
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(response to M.Waldman)as if my soul was grappling
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with a palpable enemy
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(M.Krempe) unsupportable
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sensitiveness
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Albert, Magnus and Paracelsus...
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sought immortality and power
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(Creation) painful
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labour |
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(Creation)became myself
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capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter
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(Creation)turn
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with loathing
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(Creation)owe
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their being to me
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(Creation)pursued nature
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to her hiding places
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(Creation)no father could claim
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the gratitude of his child so completely
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(Creation)collected
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bones from charnel houses
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(Creation)filthy
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creation
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(Creation)author of
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unalterable evils
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(Creation)solitude
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was my only consolation
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(Creation)benevolent
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intentions
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(Creation)unable to endure
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the aspect of being I had created
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(Creation)shunned
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the face of man
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(Creation)one hand
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was stretched out (mirrors Cistine Chapel)
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(Creation) yellow light
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of the moon
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(Whalton) something at work
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in my soul
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(Whalton)ardent
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curiosity
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(Whalton)success
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shall crown my endeavours
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(Whalton)tread a land
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never before imprinted by the foot of man
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(Whalton)one's man life or death were but a small price to pay
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for the acquirement of knowledge
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(Elizabeth) promised
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gift
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(Elizabeth)since till death
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she was to be mine only
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(Elizabeth)mine to protect
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love and cherish
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(Elizabeth)saintly
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soul
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(Elizabeth)heaven
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sent
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(Elizabeth)a pretty
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present
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(Victor's Parents) owed towards the being
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to which they had given life
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(Victor's Parents)
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Worship
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(Caroline) committed herself
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to his care
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(Caroline)angel
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mother
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(Beaufort) protecting
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spirit
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(Beaufort)unhappiness
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deeply impressed on his countenance
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(Victor's Parents) guided by
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a silken chord
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(Victor's Parents)plaything
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and their idol
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(Victor's Parents)bestowed on them
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by heaven
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(William) lovely
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boy
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(William) radiant
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innocence
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(Shelley)ought always to
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preserve a calm and peaceful mind
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(Shelley)never to allow passion or transitory desire
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to disturb his tranquility
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(Preface) speak to
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the mysterious fears of our nature
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(Preface)supremely
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frightful
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(Preface)mock the stupendous mechanism
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of the creator of the world
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(Preface)curdle the blood
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and quicken the beatings of the heart
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(Creature and Victor) bound
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by ties
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(Creature and Victor)ought to
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render him happy
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(Creature and Victor)duties of a
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a creator towards his creature
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(Creature to Victor)my natural lord
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and king
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(Victor) shunned
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my fellow creatures
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(Victor)aspires to become
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greater than his nature will allow
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(Victor)brink of
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destruction
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(Victor)melancholy
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and despairing
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(Victor)decaying
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frame
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(Victor)secrets of heaven and earth
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that I desired to learn
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(Victor)banish disease from the human frame
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and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death
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(Victor)occupied by
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his own misery
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(Victor)destiny
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was too potent
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(Victor) I was the slave
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to my creature
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(Victor) sank in
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[his] chest (at the thought of marriage)
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(Victor) horror
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and dismay
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(Creature)livid with
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the hue of death
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(Creature)gigantic
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stature
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(Creature)black
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lips
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(Creature)superhuman
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speed
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(Creature)yellow
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skin
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(Creature)watery
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eyes
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(Creature)demonical
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corpse
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(Creature)extreme
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wonder
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(Creature)learned to
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distinguish
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(Creature)poor, helpless,
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miserable
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(Creature)tormented by
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hunger and thirst
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(Creature)knew
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not
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(Creature)no mother
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had blessed me with smiles
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(Creature)countenance bespoke
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bitter anguish
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(Creature)no father had
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watched my infant days
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(Creature)you my creator
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detest and spurn me
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(Creature)I ought to be
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thy adam
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(Creature)none to lament
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my annihilation
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(Creature)misery made me
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a fiend
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(Creature)I admired virtue
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and good feelings
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(Victor => Creature) detested
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form
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(Victor => Creature) abhorred
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monster
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(Victor => Creature) abhorred
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devil
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(Victor => Creature) filthy
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daemon
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(Victor => Creature) my own spirit
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let loose from the grave
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(Society => Creature) shrieked
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loudly
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(Society => Creature) attacked me
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until grievously bruised
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(Creature => Delacey Family) my
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protectors
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(Creature => Delacey Family) restore
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happiness
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(Creature => Delacey Family)I longed
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to join them
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(Creature => Delacey Family)inflicted pain on the
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cottagers I abstained
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(Creature => Delacey Family)longed
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to discover myself to the cottagers
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(Creature => Delacey Family)overlook
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the deformity of my figure
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(Delacey Family) superior
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beings
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(Delacey Family) affection
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and duty
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(Delacey Family) perpetual
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exile
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(Safie) independance
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of spirit
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(Safie)generous
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nature
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(Safie)nursed her with
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the most devoted affection
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(Safie's Father)injustice
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of his sentence
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(Safie's Father)
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tyrannical
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(Storm) thunder burst
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with a terrific crash
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(Storm)a
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figure
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(Storm)noble war
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in the sky
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(Storm)illuminated
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the object
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(Storm)impenetrable
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darkness
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(Storm)illuminated
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the object
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(Nature) calm and heavenly scene
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restored me
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(Nature) immutable
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laws
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(Nature)glorious presence chamber
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of imperial nature
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(Nature)might
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alps
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(Nature)
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Sublime
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(Nature)supreme
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and magnificient
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(Nature)wonderful and
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stupendous
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(Creature => Nature)gazed with
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a kind of wonder
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(Creature => Nature) kinder to me
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then your fellow beings
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(Creature => Nature) spirits
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elevated
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(Angela Wright) believed in
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the sancity of human life
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(Ellen Moers) Frankenstein is a
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"sublimated afterbirth"
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(Dr Sage) dialogue between
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reactionary and progressive points of view
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(Dr Sage) the treatment
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of the fall
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(Marie Mulvey-Roberts) Frankenstein is an example of the romantic over reacher,
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who transgresses boundaries between the human and divine
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(Creature) I was the slave
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not the monster
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(Creature)I was apparently
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united by no link to any other being in the universe
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(Victor) he had promised
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to follow me wherever I go
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(Creature) I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy,
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because my creator do I swear inextinguishable hatred
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Definition: Hubris
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extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall
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(Creature) am an
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abortion
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(Creature) crime has degraded me beyond
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the meanest animal
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(Creature) evil thenceforth
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became my good
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(Creature)scaring and unearthly about
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his ugliness
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(Shelley) seek happiness in tranquility
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and avoid ambition
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(Science) swallowed up every
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habit of my nature
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(Nature) restored by
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the cold gale of the mountains
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(Nature) wondourus
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scene
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(Nicholas Marsh) scientists seek to control nature,
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just as men have traditionally sought to control women
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(Nicholas Marsh) male drive to
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dominance and power
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(Creature) Glowed with
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love and humanity
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