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Exercise Four:
At this point, you have completed the previous three exercises and
you should now have a list of steps that will be used to reconstruct the
argument that is delivered in the text below. Take those steps and
put them into standard form, and then compare your answer to the one in
the key. (You can also try to do this with the steps that I have
identified, if you want to see whether your assessment of their
relationship is the same as mine.) That text, one last time:
| (1) "You are in the
wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of
threatening, I am content to reason with you. (2) I am malicious
because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all
mankind? (3) You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and
triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more
than he pities me? (4) You would not call it murder, if you
could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my
frame, the work of your own hands. (5) Shall I respect man, when
he contemns me? (6) Let him live with me in the interchange of
kindness, and, instead of injury, I would bestow every benefit
upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. (7) But that
cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our
union. (8) Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject
slavery. (9) I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire
love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy,
because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. (10)
Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I
desolate your heart, so that you curse the hour of your
birth. ... (11) What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate.
(12) I demand a creature of another sex ...."
-- The creature to Victor
Frankenstein, Frankenstein, p. 98
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