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Victor marrying Elizabeth even though he knows that his monster will kill one of them if they wed.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Dover Publications, 2001.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. HarperPerennial, 1998.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Dover Publications, 2001.

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pg 206
pg 220
pg 252 loyalty to mom and beliefs
pg 258-259

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In the novel Brave New World, John's love of his mother and the undulating nature of the human condition contrasts violently with the society's conditioned rules.

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pg 139-141 his reasoning (and regret)
pg 143-144 nature

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pg 194 devotion
pg 220-221
pg 257
pg 271
pg 274  writing
pg 311 killing Alec

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In the novel Frankenstein, Victor's selfish love for his cousin and wife ends in her death.

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I think it's straight up ignoring what he knows is true. The monster has it out for him, and Victor knows the monster is more than capable of following up on his threat. Logically, the cons heavily outweigh the pros. His decision to ignore those hard truths is what makes his love so dangerous.

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In the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Tess' obsessive passion for her husband Angel Clare causes her to suffer tremendously after they split up and eventually drives her to kill her former "lover" Alec.

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Even the weather attempts to get Victor to back out of marrying Elizabeth, and yet he ignores that as well.

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Is this ignoring his intuition? So maybe that results in the disaster? Ignoring his bodily anxieties?

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Gabby in her NLMG post called it "desperate selfishness." The pain of losing a loved one drives some people to do things against their normal rationalism

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Good idea Ginny... what is that complex motive of love? Why does it end in disaster?

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John's love for his mother and the regular human nature was thought of as generating "instability" in society. His loyalty to his beliefs cause him to flagellate himself and eventually kill his temptress

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Her love for Angel turned into idolatry and kept her in financial troubles and terrible work because she had stayed true to every last word of Angel's not to write to him until he wrote to her. Upon seeing Angel again, Tess decides to stab and kill Alec.

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Through the novels Frankenstein, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Brave New World, readers understand the complex motives and actions of love that sometimes end in disaster.