All 11 Uses of
species
in
Frankenstein
- Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.†
Chpt 1
- I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.†
Chpt 2 *
- The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.†
Chpt 2
- A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.†
Chpt 4
- I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.†
Chpt 15
- No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.†
Chpt 16
- My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.†
Chpt 16
- She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species.†
Chpt 20
- Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.†
Chpt 20
- You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species, your names adored as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind.†
Chpt 24
- My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my attention because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(species) a group of animals or plants that are similar -- typically identified as belonging to the same group when they are of a kind that can reproduce new members of the group together