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Exercise Two:
Returning to the paragraph we used in Exercise One, reprinted below, list the explicit
argument steps and compare your list to the key. Here is that paragraph
again:
| (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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