Chapter 17
The Creature demands a mate: 'You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.'
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From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Creature's demand for a female companion and Victor's refusal raise heavily debated questions about gender, reproduction, and the limits of moral obligation.
Chapter 20
Victor's reasoning for destroying her: fear that 'a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth.' A passage central to feminist readings of the novel.
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