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| "A fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature" |
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| Playing god - transgressing boundaries into where they shouldn't be transgressed. |
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| "undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes" |
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| exploration and transgression breaks the domestic sphere. Isolation is considered strange, almost sociopathic. |
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| "my life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic" |
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| Implies that he doesn't want to be in the domestic sphere - unsettling |
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| "almost frantic impulse...lost all soul or sensation" |
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| possessed by his work, he's becoming animalistic and like the monster. |
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| "nearly in the light of my own vampire" |
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| he's accepting responsibility for his actions |
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| "I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me" + "the absence of the object which I now feel as a most severe evil" |
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| inside fear, he fears what he's capable of |
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