Themes -- Madness
Madness: the novel implicitly questions what is to be construed as sane behavior, particularly in the character of Victor Frankenstein.
Introduction 13
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("I have changed no portion of the story") [1831 only]
Letter 4.6
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("Do you share my madness") [1831 only]
Letter 1.3
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("Enthusiasm")
Letter 4.3
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("Astonishment")
Letter 4.3
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("Madness")
1.3.2
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("Astonishment of the students")
1.3.4
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("Vision of a madman")
1.3.8
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("Shunned") [1831 only]
1.4.3
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("A black and comfortless sky")
1.4.6
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("Heartless laughter")
1.4.6
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("A wildness")
1.4.7
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("My disturbed imagination")
1.6.5
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("I wept like a child")
1.6.8
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("If any other had communicated")
1.6.8
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("Nervous fever")
1.7.1
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("Ravings of a madman")
2.2.3
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("Anger and hatred")
2.8.4
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("A kind of insanity")
2.9.7
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("All pleasures ... life")
2.9.7
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("A kind of insanity")
3.1.3
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("An absorbing melancholy, that resembled madness") [1831 only]
3.1.4
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("One paternal kind precaution") [1831 only]
3.1.5
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("Listless indolence")
3.4.8
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("Instantly darted into my mind")
3.4.8
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("Are you then safe")
3.4.9
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("Black melancholy")
3.4.10
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("I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence")
3.4.10
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("To restrain me")
3.4.11
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("The mad enthusiasm")
3.5.1
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("I should be supposed mad")
3.5.2
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("I am not mad")
3.5.2
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("I could not sacrifice the whole human race")
3.5.6
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("Real insanity possessed me")
3.6.5
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("They had called me mad")
3.6.5
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("A maddening rage")
3.6.8
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("This elevation ... madness")
3.7.1
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("Fury")
3.7.3
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("Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose")
3.7.3
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("The spirits that I had invoked to aid me")
3.7.4
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("The spirits that guarded me")
Walton 1
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("Are you mad . . . ?")
Walton 2
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("Offspring of solitude and delirium")
Walton 5
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("My mad schemes are the cause") [1831 only]
Walton 10
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("A fit of enthusiastic madness")
