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ENGL378G: From Milton to the Moon Landing (Celia Cook), The oppressed…

- - - - Hubris
        
        “I am of a family of rigid principle and considerable self-respect.” (Le Guin)
        
        “The visible extent of the world visibly exceeds us; but as we exceed little things, we think ourselves more capable of knowing them.” (Pascal)
        
        “She dictate false, and misinform the Will/To do what God expressly hath forbid.” (Milton)
        
        Consequences of unchecked innovation.
        
        “I could not sustain the horror of my situation…the judges, had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony.” (Shelley 56)
        
        “I really never imagined she’d be used against me.” (LaValle)
        
        “The novel is not so much a conservative fantasy as a radical caution to those in power against creating the conditions that will result in rebellion against them.” (Young 22)
        
        “we had then/Remain’d still happy, not as now, despoil’d/Of all our good, sham’d, naked, miserable.” (Milton)
        
        “Human sperm and egg will not unite without us.” (Butler 245)
        
        “His sentence served, he renounced all pretense to humanity, and engaged in countless experiments on live and dead animals, which he dissected with unnatural fervour.” (Labatut 18)
        
        “Clara accused him of perverting science by devising a method for exterminating human beings on an industrial scale.” (Labatut 26)
        
        “suffocating all forms of life beneath a terrible verdure.” (Labatut 33)
        
        “But while ‘unproductive’ refers to similar conditions, it lays special emphasis on the perspective of the capitalist, not the experience of the worker…Reading Marx’s analogy in this light cuts away from any idealizing account of poetry as either a natural process or a work of self-fashioning.” (Crim 114)
        
        “My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.” (Shelley 9)
        
        “After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.” (Shelley 32)
        
        “The transsexual body is in an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction.” (Stryker)
        
        “Diesbach dubbed his new colour ‘Prussian Blue’ to establish an intimate and long-lasting connection between his chance discovery and the empire that would surpass the glory of the ancients, as it would have taken a much more gifted man–one endowed, perhaps, with the curse of foresight–even to conceive of its future fall.” (Labatut 15-16)
    - - “These being their eyes, it affords us a very pretty Speculation to contemplate their manner of vision” (Hooke)
      - “Was death invented?” (Milton)
      - “endeavoring to discover the motives which influenced their actions” (Shelley 76)
      - “A bold new theory deserving of attention asserts that they are aquatic animals, the periodic ones intelligent, the others less so (or less well endowed with a sense of direction).” (Levi 615)
- - - - “Though of their names in heavenly records now/Be no memorial, blotted out and razed/By their rebellion, from the books of life.” (Milton)
      - “Think about why you aren’t taught such things in school.” (LaValle)
      - “Most important, the thematic doubling between Victor and the monster was diminished, with both Victor and the monster flattened into stock characters: Victor became the tragic overreacher, while the monster, dumbed-down and literally mute, was a violent brute.” (Young 31)
      - “And you think destroying what was left of our cultures will make us better?” (Butler 34)