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Solon Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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Solon 638-558 B.C. was an Athenian statesman and poet.

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Numa Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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Numa Pomplius (715-673 B.C.) was the second king of Rome.

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What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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The wretch is reflective and introspective.

Most people don’t even consider these questions seriously.
But anyone who has studied philosophy seriously grapples with these questions and can relate to the wretch’s struggle.

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Contrasts to Victor whilst the Creature is more philosophical, Victor leans towards the scientific viewpoint

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also this shows how he had to bring up himself his father abandoned him, the person who could answer some of these questions wasnt there to answer them. shows how he is alone and that he is trying to learn and understand things about himself and the world (this shows he has human emotions)

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I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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The Sorrows of Young Werther influenced the wretch significantly.

It taught him despondency and gloom, much of which we have seen in the wretch’s account.

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Sorrows of Werter Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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The Sorrows of a Young Werther by Goethe dealt with intense emotion, and it may have encouraged the wretch to act dramatically.

Remember it from chapter 9?

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a volume of Plutarch's Lives Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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Parallel Lives is Plutarch’s biographies of famous Romans and Greeks.

The wretch got his schooling. He knows what he’s talking about (probably better than most students today as far as ancient Greece and Rome are concerned).

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Paradise Lost Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 15)
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No wonder there are so many allusions to Paradise Lost. It was one of the first books the wretch read.

… Kind of puts you to shame if you haven’t read it— this guy did as a newborn.

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"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them)." Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 13)
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This passage brings to mind two things: firstly, the depth of emotion felt by the wretch is impressive. His complex feelings toward this (especially in retrospect) seem to surpass simply a dog missing its owner. Furthermore, this passage anticipates some fall-out between the wretch and the family.

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his eyes sparkled, Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 13)
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Compare this with the Ancient Mariner’s

…glittering eye

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more analyzing please don’t just point out the device but explain please

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Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chap. 13)
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Compare this with the description of the wretch in chapter 5:

His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

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