501 Critical Reading Questions

parts us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick, so long as
your own pain drives you, so long as pain underlies your propositions
about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less
obscurely what an animal feels. This pain—”
I gave an impatient shrug at such sophistry.
“Oh! But it is such a little thing. A mind truly open to what science
has to teach must see that it is a little thing.”
290.
In the first paragraph of Passage 1 (lines 1–10), Frankenstein
reveals that the purpose of his tale is to