Frankenstein Flashcards
P.35 - Victor wins best dad award
No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their’s
Victor’s work ethic
Midnight labours
Secret toils
Elizabeth mirrors the monster
I will melt the stony hearts of your enemies by my tears and prayers
Both are Frankenstein???
My own spirit let loose from the grave
Elizabeth thinks men are the monsters
Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood
How is Walton similar to the monster?
The desire I had always felt of finding a friend who might sympathise with me
How does Victor describe the result of ambition to Walton?
A serpent to sting you
How does Victor’s childhood differ from the monster’s?
My improvement and health were their constant care, especially as I remained for several years their only child.
How helpful does Victor think science is?
Scarcely ever fail in ultimitely turning to the solid advantage of mankind
How powerful is science?
They can command the thunders of heaven
How does Victor feel about M.Krempe as a teacher
With a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account less valuable
Victor gets a bit obsessed with death
I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body
What is a church-yard to Victor?
Merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life
What did Victor do to succeed in making a monster?
Tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
Victors making of the monster
‘Disturbed with profane fingers’
‘Workshop of filthy creation’
The monster is just a baby
He muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks
When Victor thinks the murderer has been caught, what is his hypocritical reaction?
One might as well try to. Overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw.
Victor doesn’t think his creation is a human
Every human being, was guiltless of this murder
The difference between Elizabeth and Victor?
I would sacrifice my life to your peace
The church hates Justine
He threatened excommunication and hell fire i my last moments, if I continued obdurate
Elizabeth reflects the monsters fate
escaped from a world which is hateful to me, and the visages of men which i abhor.
Victor gets a bit Promethean
I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.
Victor proves that people are born good
I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice, and make myself useful to my fellow-beings.
Victor’s depression reflects the visual description of his monster.
I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed
Victor thinks the Alps are alien
As belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings
The monster talks about God vs Humans
My creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Monster talks about nature vs nurture
I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.
Monster dropping facts about the justice system
You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.
Man discovers fire
How strange, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effects!
Monster finds the hut and compares himself to a demon
As exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the daemons of hell
Monster knows the importance of language
This was indeed a godlike science,
Monster gets achievements better than Victor
To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being;
Monster has daddy issues
No father had watched my infant days
More injustice in the system
His religion and wealth, rather than the crime alleged against him, had been the cause
The monster gets Rousseau
Perhaps if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations
The monster seeks judgment from God
For an interview with them which would decide my fate
Trial
The monster uses his innocent discovery of fire for destruction
With their forked and destroying tongues
Victor explains why he can’t sympathise with his monster
When I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened
Victor admits he is going against god
Hellish hypocrites
What was Clerval formed from?
The “very poetry of nature”
Victor has been ruined by science
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul
Victor repeats his workshop vibe
It was indeed a filthy process in which i was engaged.
My heart often sickened at the work of my hands
Victor is as strong as the monster
Of what materials was i made, that i could thus resist so many shocks
Victors been poisoned
The cup of life was poisoned forever
Victors hyperbole of guilt
A thousand times i would have shed my blood drop by drop, to have saved their lives
Shelley’s political views in Victor’s description of his freedom
He is turned adrift, homeless, pennyless, and alone, but free.
Victor is Eve
But the apple was already eaten, and the angel’s arm bared to drive me from all hope
Victor is the devil
Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.
Victor understands the monsters feelings (but he doesn’t know it)
Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me
Nature protecting the monster
The wind arose; the sea roared; and with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.
Monster knows we should all be responsible for eachother
Am i to be thought the only criminal;, when all human kind sinned against me?
