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Frankenstein Chapter 15 The Creature begins his own education, reading the books and notes that he found in Victor's jacket in the nearby woods. In the jacket pocket are Milton's //Paradise Lost//, Plutarch's //Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans//, and Goethe's //Sorrows of Werter.// The list is a virtual required reading list of books that are all influenced by the Romantic movement in England.Plutarch compares and contrasts the lives of Greek and Roman statesmen or soldiers for historical perspective. Goethe's work is a novel of letters written by a youth who is very sensitive and steadfast, who kills himself after being so uncompromising and idealistic. Milton's book is about the creation story and Adam, which causes the monster to question his own creation and place in the world. Finally, the Creature discovers Victor Frankenstein's own notebooks, which explain how the Creature came into existence. The Creature is both intrigued and horrified at learning how he came into existence.

QUOTES: 'from that moment [he] declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against [Frankenstein] who had formed [him] and sent [him] forth to this insupportable misery.'"

I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.

You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains — revenge, henceforth dearer than light of food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.