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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account
we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy,
but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel. Oh!
My creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit!
Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing;
do not deny me my request!"
I was moved. I shuddered when I thought of the possible
consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some
justice in his argument. His tale and the feelings he now
expressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did
I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was
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