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
“What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not”
“This was a God-like science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it”
Volume 2 chapter IV
“His eyes sparkled as his cheek flushed”
“I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian”
“I also learned the science of letters…this opened before me a wild field for wonder and delight”
“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so viscous and base?”
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock”
“But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses”
Volume 2 chapter V
“The youth could not help owning to his mind that the captive possessed a treasure which could fully reward his toil and hazard”
“Turl renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer”
Volume 2 chapter VI
“I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings”
“Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition”
“Satan had his companions, fellow devils to admire and encourage him but I am solitary and abhorred”
“He dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb as the lion rends the antelope”
Volume 2 chapter VII
“The cold stars shone in mockery”
“My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world”
“Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless”
“This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction”
Volume 2 chapter VIII
“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?”
“His words gad a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish console him”
“I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and I listened to every blast of wind”
Volume 2 chapter IX
“You perhaps regard her as your sister, without any wish that she may become your wife”
Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey
Volume 2 chapter I
“Company was irksome to me; when I was alone I could feel my mind with the sights of heaven and earth”
“This was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head”
“I dared to shake off my chains…but the iron had eaten into my flesh”
“During my first experiment…my eyes shut to the horror of my proceedings”
Volume 2 chapter II
“And a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth”
“Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of snake”
“I shall be with you on your wedding night”
“The words of the fiend rang in my ear like a knell”
Volume 3 chapter III
“The fiend by whom I was tormented;and at others, I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping at my neck”
“Sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but dense and frightful darkness”
“My strength was gone. I was a mere skeleton; a fever night and day preyed upon by wasted fame”
Volume 3 chapter VI
“I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart”
Volume 3 chapter V
“She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down”
“Pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber”
“Rage sparkled in my eyes”
Volume 3 chapter VI
“But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being”
“My dreams lulled me even to rupture”
“He is eloquent and persuasive and once his words even had power over my heart”
Volume 3 chapter VII part 1
“Then like a volcano bursting forth, his face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest rage as he shrieked”
“A feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes”
“You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your names adored”
“The forms of the beloved dead flit before me, and I hasten to their arms”
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred”
“I was the slave not the master, of an impulse I detested but could not disobey”
“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates”
Volume 3 chapter VII chapter 2
