Chapter 1
'I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.' Victor's origin and pampered upbringing.
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From Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Victor introduces himself as a Genevese of distinguished family, recounting his idyllic childhood and obsessive turn toward natural philosophy after reading Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
Chapter 2
Victor discovers the occult philosophers and witnesses lightning destroy an oak: the seed of his scientific obsession.
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At Ingolstadt, Professor Waldman's lecture inflames Victor: 'So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein, more, far more, will I achieve.'
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