Frankenstein key quotes Flashcards
i may there discover…
the wondrous power which attracts the needle
commence this laborious voyage with the joy…
a child feels when he embarks in a little boat
success shall…
crown my endeavours
untamed…
yet obedient element
one man’s life or death…
is but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge I sought
let me reveal my tale…
and you will dash the cup from your lips
i shall kill…
no albatross
draw inexhaustible…
stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me
i was their play…
thing and idol
innocent and helpless creature…
bestowed on them by heaven
guided by a…
silken cord
crown of…
distinction
heaven-…
sent
celestial stamp…
in all her features
pretty…
present
looked upon Elizabeth as mine…
mine to protect, and love, and cherish
her countenance expressed…
affection even in her death
the brightness of a…
beloved eye can have been extinguished
high white…
steeple of the town
conducted to my…
solitary apartment
m. krempe was a little squat man with gruff voice and a repulsive countenance
did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits
his person was short, but remarkably erect;…
and his voice was the sweetest I had ever heard
the stars often disappeared in the light of morning…
whilst i was yet engaged in my laboratory
solely…
wrapt up in this
a churchyard was to me…
merely the receptacle of bodies
forced to spend days and nights in…
vaults and charnel-houses
how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge…
and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow
my person had become…
emaciated with confinement
my cheek had grown…
pale with study
i pursued…
nature to her hiding places
in a solitary chamber…
or rather a cell
it was on a dreary…
night
anxiety that almost…
amounted to agony
rain pattered…
dismally
candle was nearly…
burnt out
half-extinguished…
light
hair was a…
lustrous black
teeth of a…
pearly whiteness
breathless horror and disgust…
filled my heart
dim and yellow…
light of the moon
dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space…
now became a hell to me
drenched by the rain which poured from a…
black and comfortless sky
if you were in an ill-humour…
one glance from justine could dissipate it
justine was the most grateful…
little creature
by the solemnity of her feelings…
exquisitely beautiful
god knows how entirely…
i am innocent
unhappy…
victim
i commit my cause to the justice of my…
judges, yet i see no room for hope
begone, vile…
insect
wretched…
devil
be calm…
i entreat you to hear me
i ought to be thy adam…
but i am rather the fallen angel
i was benevolent and good; misery…
made me fiend
palaces…
i beheld in the village
so low that i could with difficulty…
sit upright
agreeable…
asylum
barbarity of…
man
crept from my…
kennel
exposed by a…
pig-sty
gentle…
beings
lovely…
creatures
i should first win their favour…
and afterwards their love
pleasant showers and…
genial warmth of spring
my spirits were elevated by the…
enchanting appearance of nature
do not desert me in the…
hour of my trial
felix darted forward with…
supernatural force
tore me away from his father…
to whose knees i clung
dashed me to the ground and…
struck me violently with a stick
i could tear him limb from limb…
as the lion rends the antelope
i waited with forced imaptience until the moon…
had sunk to commence my operations
blast tore along like a…
mighty avalanche
produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that…
burst all bounds of reason and reflection
danced with…
fury
wind fanned…
the fire
flames… licked it with their…
forked and destroying tongues
this little creature was…
unprejudiced
joint wickedness might…
desolate the world
i am malicious because…
i am miserable
if any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me…
i should return them a hundred and hundred fold
creature of another sex…
but as hideous as myself
one of the remotest of…
the Orkneys
scene of my…
labours
soil was…
barren
inhabitants…
gaunt and scraggy limbs
vegetables and bread…
when they indulged in such luxuries
thatch had fallen in, walls were un…
plastered, door was off its hinges
hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which i gave…
so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of me
race of…
devils
you are my creator but…
i am your master - obey!
i shall be with you…
on your wedding night
destruction of the best hope and….
purest creature of earth
her pale and distorted features…
half covered by her hair
i found myself at the…
cemetery
her furies possessed me…
as i concluded and rage choked my utterance
in my sleep i saw…
my friend, my wife, and my beloved country
haunted even in…
my waking hours
satisfy my revenge…
in his death
blood congeal with horror like that which…
even now curdles mine
learn my miseries and…
do not seek to increase your own
destitute of every hope of…
consolation
his shattered…
spirit
what a glorious creature he must have been in the days of his prosperity…
when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin
i could not rank myself with the…
herd of common projectors
like the archangel…
who aspired to eternal omnipotence, i am chained in an eternal hell
surrounded by…
mountains of ice
if we are lost…
my mad schemes are the cause
still surrounded by mountains of ice…
still in imminent danger
immured…
in ice
was an honourable…
undertaking
my hopes are blasted…
by cowardice and indecision
seek happiness in…
tranquility and avoid ambition
uncouth and distorted…
in its proportions
never did i behold a vision…
as horrible as his face
yet even that enemy of god and man…
had friends
but it is true that i…
am a wretch
i shall ascend…
my funeral pile
exult in the agony of the…
torturing flames
