Frankenstein quotes Flashcards
“Tred a land never before imprinted by the foot of man”
“I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.”
Letter I
“The absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend”
Letter II
“The very stars being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph”
Letter III
“His body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering”
“I should have been happy to have possessed a brother of my heart”
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge”
“The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from the earth”
Letter IV
“He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl”
“I was their plaything, their idol and something better their child bestowed on them by heaven”
“Her hair was the brightest living gold”
“More than my sister since till death she was to be mine only”
Chapter I
“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself”
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate”
Chapter II
“My firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”
“Elizabeth, you must supply my place to the younger children”
“They (scientists) have acquired new and almost unlimited powers”
Chapter III
“Darkness had no effect upon my fancy and a churchyard to merely the receptacle of bodies…has become food for the worm”
“I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain”
“A new species would bless me as it’s creator and source”
“The moon gazed on my midnight labours”
Chapter IV
“I felt the palpitation of every artery”
Chapter V
“You are forbidden to write - to hold a pen; yet one word from you dear Victor is necessary to calm our apprehensions”
“Write dearest Victor - one line - one word will be a blessing to us”
“A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy”
Chapter VI
“Vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire”
“The filthy daemon to whom I had given life”
“The scene enveloped in an impenetrable darkness”
Chapter VII
“The fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forego their hold”
“How shall I ever believe in human goodness?”
“Her voice was suffocated with sobs”
“A creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated”
“But I, the true murdered, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom”
“I bore a hell within me which nothing could distinguish”
“William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts”
Chapter VIII
“Sleep fled from my eyes”
“Solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
“the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.”
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”
Volume 2 chapter I
“A sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy”
“Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us”
“Life although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me”
“I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity”
Volume 2 chapter II
“Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.”
Volume 2 chapter III