Frankenstein Flashcards
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What are some Walton quotes from the letters?
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- ‘I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation’
- ‘I felt my heart glow with enthusiasm’
- ‘I dedicated myself to this great enterprise’
- ‘I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst and want of sleep’
- ‘Dedicated, Inuring, Hardship, Endured
- ‘I bitterly feel the want of a friend’
- ‘What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?’
- ‘One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought.’
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What are some Creature quotes from the letters?
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- ‘Gigantic stature’
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What are some Victor quotes from the letters?
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- ‘I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.’
- ‘His eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness.’
- ‘He gnashes his teeth as if impatient of the weight of woes that opresses him.’
- ‘Decaying frame’
- ‘Have you drank also of the intoxicating drought?’
- ‘Slave of passion’
- ‘Serpent to sting you
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What are some Victor quotes from his childhood (chapters 1-2)
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- ‘My mother’s tender caresses and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure’
- ‘I was their plaything and their idol’
- ‘I recieved a lesson of patience, of charity and of self-control’
- ‘The world was a secret to me which I desired to divine’
- ‘No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself’
- ‘I had never beheld anything so utterly destroyed’
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What are some Elizabeth quotes?
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- ‘The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home’
- ‘Best hope and purest creature on earth
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What are some Victor quotes chapters 3-4?
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- ‘The birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny’
- ‘My mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose’
- ‘Like a hurricane’
- ‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source’
- ‘Workshop of filthy creation’
- ‘I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines’
- ‘I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit’
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What are some Creature quotes from chapter 5?
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- ‘Dull yellow eye’
- ‘Yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath’
- ‘More horrid contrast with his watery eyes’
- ‘A grin wrinkled his cheeks’
- ‘One hand was stretched out seemingly to detain me’
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What are some Victor quotes from chapter 5?
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- ‘How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe’
- ‘The wretch with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form’
- I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation
- ‘Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room’
- ‘A filthy demon who I had given life’
9
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What are some Victor quotes from chapters 6-8?
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- ‘Those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death’
- ‘The first hapless victims
10
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What are some Victor quotes from chapters 9-10
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- ‘I wandered like an evil spirit
- ‘a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove’
- ‘I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt
- ‘This state of mind preyed upon my health’
- ‘Solidude was my only consolation’
- ‘Deep, dark deathlike solitude’
- ‘I gnashed my teeth’
- ‘I would penetrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats’
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What are some creature quotes from chapter 10?
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- ‘you my creator detest and spurn me’
- ‘How dare you sport thus with life’
- ‘Do your duty towards me’
- ‘Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish is dear to me, and I will defend it’
- ‘I ought to be thy adam but I am thy fallen angel’
- ‘Misery made me a fiend’
- ‘Shall I not hate thos who abhor me?’
- ‘I am miserable’
12
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What are some creature quotes from chapters 11-16?
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- ‘I was a poor, helpless miserable wretch’
- ‘Children shrieked, women fainted’
- ‘I saw no cause for their unhappiness but I was deeply affected by it’
- ‘When they were unhappy, I felt depressed’
- ‘No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses’
- ‘Miserable, unhappy wretch
- ‘Was I then a monster’
- ‘What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?’
- ‘Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition’
- ‘I am solitary and abhorred’
- ‘I am an unfortunate and deserted creature’
- ‘I was like a wild beast’
- ‘My daily vows rose for revenge-a deep and deadly revenge’
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What are some creaure quotes from chapter 17?
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- ‘I am malicious because I am miserable’
- ‘You my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph
- ‘I swear inextinguishable hatred’
- ‘A fiendish rage animated him’
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What are some Victor quotes from chapters 17-20
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- The latter part of his tale kindled anew in me the anger that had died away’
- ‘I clung onto every pretence of delay’
- ‘Deadly weight hanging around my neck’
- ‘Put an end to my slavery forever’
- ‘miserable wretch haunted by a curse’
- ‘I am a blasted tree’
- ‘The iron had eaten into my flesh’
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What are some Victor quotes from chapters 21-24?
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- ‘I was a mere skeleton; and fever night and day preyed upon my wasting frame’
- ‘She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed’.
- ‘Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me’
- ‘But it is true that I am a wretch
