Frankenstein Quotes Flashcards
‘Structure of the human frame,
and, indeed any animal induced with life’
‘It was with these feelings
that I began the creation of a human being’
‘Renew life where death had
apparently devoted the body to corruption’
‘A new species would bless me it’s creator and source;
many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me’
‘Did the principle
of life proceed?’
‘I became myself capable of
bestowing animation upon lifeless matter’
‘Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a
churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life’
‘I collected the instruments
of life around me’
‘His limbs were in proportion, and I
had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!’
‘Wretch’
‘Begone, vile insect!’
‘But now that I had finished, the beauty
of the dream had vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’
‘Abhorred monster! Fiend that
thou art! Wretched devil’
‘I was benevolent and good; misery made
me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous’
‘I am thy creature’
‘I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness’
‘I regret that I am taken from you, and, happy and beloved as
I have been, is it not hard to quit you all?’
Why can’t victor love, how he’s been loved?
