Chapter 2
Lightning striking the oak: prefigures the spark of creation.
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From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Recurring motifs include fire/light (Promethean knowledge), ice (sterility, isolation), lightning (creation), and eyes (recognition and horror).
Chapter 16
The Creature discovers fire: 'I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars... How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!'
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Arctic ice as the novel's framing landscape of sterile ambition.
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