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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: and condition. I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely
unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation
I was a listener. I sympathized with and partly understood them,
but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none.
"The path of my departure was free," and there was none to lament
my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic.
What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come?
What was my destination? These questions continually recurred,
but I was unable to solve them.
"The volume of Plutarch's Lives which I possessed contained
the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics.
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