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Can someone plean explain the meaning of this quote to me? Thank you. Its in chapter 24

"Evil thenceforth became my good. Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an element which I had willingly chosen. This completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion. And now it is ended;there is my last victim!"

2007-11-28 14:50:41 · 6 answers · asked by Melanie K 2 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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The last victim was himself, as he turned to evil and lost his soul...

2007-11-28 14:53:37 · answer #1 · answered by StayThirstyMyFriends 6 · 0 0

Dr, F became committed to evil, in the sense that challenging God's design and creating life on his own would be defined as anti-God, therefore evil.

there is my last victim = himself

That would be my interpretation.

2007-11-28 22:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by yyyyyy 6 · 0 0

this is most likely an allusion to Milton's Paradise Lost. Lucifer says, "Farewell, remorse! all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good." The creature has been abandoned and has henceforth been unable to adhere to "goodness." The creature is rejecting responsibility for his actions, and blaming Frankenstein for being an ignoble creator. The monster has not been manufactured for good, and can only act malevolently, causing his own creator despair. In the same way that Lucifer attacks God's most beloved creation, the creature destroys what Frankenstein loves.

2007-11-28 23:06:46 · answer #3 · answered by Harold 2 · 0 0

The good Doctor was robbing graves to create his man, Thus he let himself become evil (an element) he had chosen. With this giving in to his base instincts (which allowed him to steal corpses from graves, which in that day and age was punishable by death.) he let his passion for science to become an obession with trying to bring something dead back to life.
The last sentence refers to him seeing the last corpse he needs at his feet in the grave he had just dug up.

2007-11-28 23:02:28 · answer #4 · answered by bnyxis 4 · 0 0

he changed from good to evil, and acknowledged it to himself.

2007-11-28 23:04:08 · answer #5 · answered by KJC 7 · 0 0

are you in english at GHS by any chance?

2007-11-28 22:53:53 · answer #6 · answered by Hall + Oates 6 · 0 0

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