4) Chapter 2: I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human
beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined. (p. 32)
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a
student's thirst for knowledge. (p. 32)
Explain the two metaphors in these two quotes (what is being compared?). What do they reveal about Victor's
early studies?

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