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It was long before he was restored; and I often thought that life was entirely extinct. At length he opened his eyes; he breathed with difficulty, and was unable to speak. The surgeon gave him a composing draught and ordered us to leave him undisturbed. In the meantime he told me that my friend had certainly not many hours to live. 去书内
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    This passage dwells in the gasp between life and death, as Frankenstein teeters on the edge of “extinct” existence. The surgeon’s blunt pronouncement—“not many hours to live”—sharpens the fragility of the moment, while phrases like “long before restored” and “breathed with difficulty” linger on the body’s faltering struggle. The command to “leave him undisturbed” layers silence over his suffering, emphasizing his isolation even in death’s shadow. Here, life is reduced to a mechanical fight (“breathed,” “opened his eyes”), stripped of the hubris that defined his creation of the creature. The scene is a quiet reckoning: the man who played god now clings to a life he no longer controls, a humbling end to a tale of ambition—reminding readers that even the “creator” is ultimately at the mercy of the same fragile mortality he sought to defy.

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