Frankenstein Quotations Flashcards
Autodidactism/Curiosity - Victor
“I was to a great deal self-taught in regards to my favourite subjects”
“Paracelsus…Cornelius Agrippa”
“Secrets of heaven and earth I desired to learn”
“learn the hidden laws of nature”
“the world was to me a secret which I desired to divine”
Autodidactism - Walton
“greater evil that I am self-educated”
“My education was neglected yet I was passionately fond of reading”
Autodidactism - Creature
“I ardently desired to become acquainted with…the godlike science of words and letters”
“[books] produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings”
Curiosity - Creature
“I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain”
Obsession - Victor
“I was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make”
“Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva”
“I spent days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses”
“new light”,”light so brilliant and wondrous”
“illustrious achievements”
“enthusiastic frenzy”
Obsession - Walton
“discover the secrets of the magnet”
“pioneer a new way”
“a country of eternal light”
“a thousand celestial observations”
Obsession - Creature
“applied my whole mind”
“bent every faculty towards that purpose”
Victor after Creation
“the beauty of the dream vanished”
“breathless horror and disgust”
“my utter and terrible destruction”
Isolation - Walton
“I desire the company of a man”
“I have no friend”
Isolation - Victor
“pale with study”
“emaciated with confinement”
“two years passed in this manner…”
“I deprived myself of rest and health”
Isolation - Creature
“Am I not alone, miserably alone”
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils”
“How then must they hate me, who is miserable beyond all living things”
“stones and other missiles”
“grievously bruised”,”attacked me”
“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”
“Shall I not hate those who abhor me”
“I have no relation or friend upon earth”
Love - Creature
“My soul glowed with love and humanity”
“heart was wrenched”
“Pleasure I experienced in watching my human neighbours”
“longed to join them, but dared not”
“kindness moved me sensibly”
“I inflicted pain…I abstained”
“restore happiness”
“to be a great and virtuous being was the highest honour”
“looked upon crime as a distant evil”
“could not conceive…murder”
“vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing”
Creature Description
“miserable monster”,”demonaical corpse”,”hideous guest”,”devil”
“depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery”
“poor, helpless, miserable wretch”
“hellish fiend”
Effects of Ambition/Education
“sorrow only increased with knowledge”
“so wretched a condition”, “dreadfully emaciated”, “noble creature destroyed by misery”
“destruction and infallible misery”
“Hear my tale and you will dash the [intoxicating draught] from your lips”
“how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge”
“like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell”
“learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own”
“seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition”
Victor - thoughts on Creature
“I ardently wished to extinguish that life”
“drivest from joy for no misdeed”
“I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness”
