Epigraph
Milton epigraph from Paradise Lost: 'Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?'
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From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Creature explicitly compares himself to Adam and Satan from Paradise Lost, indicting Victor as a negligent creator-god, central to the novel's ethical core.
Chapter 10
The Creature: 'Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.'
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On reading Paradise Lost: 'Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect.'
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