Frankenstein Flashcards
quotes
“I pursued the path…
towards the destruction of the daemon” (victor, Christian righteousness)
“the fallen angel becomes…
a malignant devil… even that enemy of god had friends and associates… I am alone.” (creature, 24, religious allegory)
“Like an…
archangel who aspires omnipotence, I am chained to hell.” (victor, connects himself to the creature)
“and to perceive…
the boundaries of the radiant roof of light with canopied me.” (romanticism)
“it clings…
to the mind, when it had once seized on it, like a lichen on a rock.” (romanticism, subverted)
“these sublime and…
magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation.” (victor, romanticism)
“but what glory…
would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!”
“A new species…
would bless me as its creator and source.”
“was disturbed…
by the wildest of dreams.” (kissing his mother’s corpse, gothic convention)
“such the words…
of fate, enounced to destroy me.”