Chapter 5 Quotes (Frankenstein): Flashcards
“It was on a dreary night of November” / “the rain pattered dismally against the panes” / “black and comfortless sky” (pathetic fallacy)
“I collected the instruments of life around me”
“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open”
“Beautiful - Great God!”
“How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?”
“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation” / “[but now] horror and disgust filled my heart”
“watery eyes” / “teeth of a pearly whiteness” / “agitated its limbs”
(Victor’s dream: transformation): “I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms” / “Elizabeth, in the bloom of health”
“I beheld the wretch” / “and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks”
“demoniacal corpse” / “ugly” / “as even Dante could not have conceived”
“a space were now become a hell to me” / “which had that night been my asylum”
Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “doth walk in fear and dread” / “because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread” - setting Victor up as a wanderer, similarly to the captain in the poem.
“Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval” / “I grasped his hand, and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune” / “calm and serene joy”
“But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge”
“I dreaded to behold this monster”
“my enemy” / “daemon”
“he saw a wildness in my eyes / unrestrained, heartless laughter”
“Henry was my only nurse”
“concealing the extent of my disorder”
“owed its origin to some uncommon and terrible event” (creation of the Creature)
“It was a divine spring”
“before I was attacked by the fatal passion”
“Could he allude to an object on whom I dared not even think?”
