Frankenstein key quotes Flashcards
1
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i may there discover…
A
the wondrous power which attracts the needle
2
Q
commence this laborious voyage with the joy…
A
a child feels when he embarks in a little boat
3
Q
success shall…
A
crown my endeavours
4
Q
untamed…
A
yet obedient element
5
Q
one man’s life or death…
A
is but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge I sought
6
Q
let me reveal my tale…
A
and you will dash the cup from your lips
7
Q
i shall kill…
A
no albatross
8
Q
draw inexhaustible…
A
stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me
9
Q
i was their play…
A
thing and idol
10
Q
innocent and helpless creature…
A
bestowed on them by heaven
11
Q
guided by a…
A
silken cord
12
Q
crown of…
A
distinction
13
Q
heaven-…
A
sent
14
Q
celestial stamp…
A
in all her features
15
Q
pretty…
A
present
16
Q
looked upon Elizabeth as mine…
A
mine to protect, and love, and cherish
17
Q
her countenance expressed…
A
affection even in her death
18
Q
the brightness of a…
A
beloved eye can have been extinguished
19
Q
high white…
A
steeple of the town
20
Q
conducted to my…
A
solitary apartment
21
Q
m. krempe was a little squat man with gruff voice and a repulsive countenance
A
did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits
22
Q
his person was short, but remarkably erect;…
A
and his voice was the sweetest I had ever heard
23
Q
the stars often disappeared in the light of morning…
A
whilst i was yet engaged in my laboratory
24
Q
solely…
A
wrapt up in this
25
a churchyard was to me...
merely the receptacle of bodies
26
forced to spend days and nights in...
vaults and charnel-houses
27
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
28
my person had become...
emaciated with confinement
29
my cheek had grown...
pale with study
30
i pursued...
nature to her hiding places
31
in a solitary chamber...
or rather a cell
32
it was on a dreary...
night
33
anxiety that almost...
amounted to agony
34
rain pattered...
dismally
35
candle was nearly...
burnt out
36
half-extinguished...
light
37
hair was a...
lustrous black
38
teeth of a...
pearly whiteness
39
breathless horror and disgust...
filled my heart
40
dim and yellow...
light of the moon
41
dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space...
now became a hell to me
42
drenched by the rain which poured from a...
black and comfortless sky
43
if you were in an ill-humour...
one glance from justine could dissipate it
44
justine was the most grateful...
little creature
45
by the solemnity of her feelings...
exquisitely beautiful
46
god knows how entirely...
i am innocent
47
unhappy...
victim
48
i commit my cause to the justice of my...
judges, yet i see no room for hope
49
begone, vile...
insect
50
wretched...
devil
51
be calm...
i entreat you to hear me
52
i ought to be thy adam...
but i am rather the fallen angel
53
i was benevolent and good; misery...
made me fiend
54
palaces...
i beheld in the village
55
so low that i could with difficulty...
sit upright
56
agreeable...
asylum
57
barbarity of...
man
58
crept from my...
kennel
59
exposed by a...
pig-sty
60
gentle...
beings
61
lovely...
creatures
62
i should first win their favour...
and afterwards their love
63
pleasant showers and...
genial warmth of spring
64
my spirits were elevated by the...
enchanting appearance of nature
65
do not desert me in the...
hour of my trial
66
felix darted forward with...
supernatural force
67
tore me away from his father...
to whose knees i clung
68
dashed me to the ground and...
struck me violently with a stick
69
i could tear him limb from limb...
as the lion rends the antelope
70
i waited with forced imaptience until the moon...
had sunk to commence my operations
71
blast tore along like a...
mighty avalanche
72
produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that...
burst all bounds of reason and reflection
73
danced with...
fury
74
wind fanned...
the fire
75
flames... licked it with their...
forked and destroying tongues
76
this little creature was...
unprejudiced
77
joint wickedness might...
desolate the world
78
i am malicious because...
i am miserable
79
if any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me...
i should return them a hundred and hundred fold
80
creature of another sex...
but as hideous as myself
81
one of the remotest of...
the Orkneys
82
scene of my...
labours
83
soil was...
barren
84
inhabitants...
gaunt and scraggy limbs
85
vegetables and bread...
when they indulged in such luxuries
86
thatch had fallen in, walls were un...
plastered, door was off its hinges
87
hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which i gave...
so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of me
88
race of...
devils
89
you are my creator but...
i am your master - obey!
90
i shall be with you...
on your wedding night
91
destruction of the best hope and....
purest creature of earth
92
her pale and distorted features...
half covered by her hair
93
i found myself at the...
cemetery
94
her furies possessed me...
as i concluded and rage choked my utterance
95
in my sleep i saw...
my friend, my wife, and my beloved country
96
haunted even in...
my waking hours
97
satisfy my revenge...
in his death
98
blood congeal with horror like that which...
even now curdles mine
99
learn my miseries and...
do not seek to increase your own
100
destitute of every hope of...
consolation
101
his shattered...
spirit
102
what a glorious creature he must have been in the days of his prosperity...
when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin
103
i could not rank myself with the...
herd of common projectors
104
like the archangel...
who aspired to eternal omnipotence, i am chained in an eternal hell
105
surrounded by...
mountains of ice
106
if we are lost...
my mad schemes are the cause
107
still surrounded by mountains of ice...
still in imminent danger
108
immured...
in ice
109
was an honourable...
undertaking
110
my hopes are blasted...
by cowardice and indecision
111
seek happiness in...
tranquility and avoid ambition
112
uncouth and distorted...
in its proportions
113
never did i behold a vision...
as horrible as his face
114
yet even that enemy of god and man...
had friends
115
but it is true that i...
am a wretch
116
i shall ascend...
my funeral pile
117
exult in the agony of the...
torturing flames
