Frankenstein Quotes Flashcards
give a quote suggesting shelley’s aims were to frighten readers
- ‘a story […] which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror’
- ‘If only I could contrive one which would frighten my reader as I had myself been frightened [5]’
give a quote showing shelleys attitude towards her parents
- ‘as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity [1]’
- ‘very anxious that I should prove myself worthy of my parentage and enrol myself on the page of fame [2]’
give a quote from the introduction showing shelley’s views on scientific progression
- ‘a pale student of unhallowed arts [4]’
- ‘supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world [4]’
give quotes initially presenting walton as hubristic and overambitious
- ‘the joy a child feels when he embarks on a little boat [13]’
- ‘I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle’ [13]
- ‘I shall satiate my ardent curiosity’ [13]
- ‘But success shall crown my endeavours’ [19]
- ‘proceed over the untamed yet obedient element’ [19]
give quotes showing walton’s disregard of the power of nature early in the novel
- ‘I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation’ [13]
- ‘sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders’ [13]
- ‘they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death’ [18]
- ‘nor do the floating sheets of ice […] appear to dismay them’ [19]
- ‘untamed yet obedient element’ [19]
- ‘the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat’ [13]
give quotes from walton’s experience in the arctic showing shelley’s romantic view of the power of nature
- ‘I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel’ [162]
- ‘these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills which will vanish before the resolutions of man […] These feelings are transitory’ [162]
- ‘the cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation’ [163]
- ‘a free passage be opened’ [163]
give a quote foreshadowing the arrival of victor to walton
‘no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.’ [16]
give a quote showing walton falling in love with victor
‘He is gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated’
give a quote showing walton’s original desire for knowledge
‘One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge’ [23]
give a quote showing victor warning walton of the dangers of the pursuit of knowledge
- ‘a dark gloom spread over my listener’s countenance’
- ‘let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!’
give quotes showing walton’s changed view of knowledge by the end of the novel
- ‘If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause’ [162]
- ‘the lives of all these men are endangered through me’
- ‘I write to you encompassed by peril and ignorance’
give a quote suggesting victor’s childhood was full of education and guidance
- ‘whose future lot it was in their hands to direct’
- ‘I received a lesson of patience of charity and self-control’
- ‘guided by a silken cord […] one train of enjoyment’
give a quote suggesting victor’s childhood was full of love
- ‘I was their plaything and their idol, and something better - their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed upon them by Heaven’
- ‘very mine of love’
give a quote, showing alphonse’s creepy treatment of caroline
‘He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener’ [27]
give a quote showing the dehumanisation of elizabeth
‘I have a pretty present for my Victor - and tomorrow he shall have it’ [29]
give a quote showing victor’s possessiveness of elizabeth
- ‘and looked upon Elizabeth as mine - mine to protect, love and cherish’ [29]
- ‘my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only’ [29]
give a quote showing victor’s use of physiognomy
‘M.Krempe was a squat little man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of pursuits’ [37] vs ‘This professor was very unlike his colleague. He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expressive of great benevolence; a few gray hairs covered his temples, but those at the back of his head were nearly black. His person was short, but remarkably erect; and his voice the sweetest I had ever heard.’ [38]
give quotes showing victor’s obsession with creating the monster/life
- ‘Two years I passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva’ vs ‘no human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself’
- ‘I […] was solely wrapt up in this’ [40]
- ‘cheek had grown pale with study’, [43]
- ‘the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory’ [40]
- ‘the moon gazed on my midnight labours’ [43]
give quotes showing light imagery in victor’s obsession
- ‘the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory’ [40]
- ‘the moon gazed on my midnight labours’ [43]
give quotes showing victor’s immorality in creating the monster
- ‘a churchyard was to me merely a receptacle of bodies deprived of life’ [41]
- ‘I was […] forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses’ ‘among the unhallowed damps of the grave’
- ‘I pursued nature to her hiding places’ [41]
- ‘a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and a staircase’ [43]
give a quote showing the othering of the monster before he is even created
‘a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and a staircase’ [43]
give quotes showing shelley’s description of geneva as a positive place
- the ‘admiration and delight’ to be found ‘in the sublime shapes of the mountains’ [30]
- ‘no human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself’ [30]
give quotes showing shelley’s description of ingolstadt as a negative place
- ‘nights in vaults and charnel houses’ [41]; ‘beheld the corruption of death’ [41]; ‘workshop of filthy creation’ [43]
- ‘dissecting room’ and ‘slaughterhouse’ [43].
give quotes showing shelley’s use of pathetic fallacy as victor creates the monster
- ‘a dreary night of November’
- ‘rain pattered dismally’
give quotes showing victor’s hubris as he creates the monster
- ‘instrument of life’
- ‘infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing’
give quotes showing fading light imagery as victor creates the monster
- ‘my candle was nearly burnt out’
- ‘glimmer of the half-extinguished light’
give quotes describing the monster’s appearance, after he has been created
- ‘limbs were in proportion […] features as beautiful […] hair was of a lustrous black’
- ‘yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath’
- ‘teeth of a pearly whiteness’
- ‘watery eyes […] shrivelled complexion […] straight black lips’
give quotes showing victor’s initial response to his creation
- ‘features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!’
- ‘my pulse beat so quickly’
- ‘I nearly sank to the ground’
- ‘mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment’
- ‘The change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete’
give quotes suggesting the monster’s birth was loveless
- ‘it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived’
- ‘the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’
- ‘the wretch’
give quotes suggesting the monster’s birth was isolating
- ‘I rushed out of the room’
give quotes showing how the monster is instantly blamed for william’s murder
- ‘its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy demon, to whom I had given life.’ [60]
- ‘Could he be […] the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth’ [60]
- ‘Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer!’ [60]
give a quote using pathetic fallacy as victor decides the monster has murdered william
‘The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness’ [60]
give quotes describing justine’s appearance during her trial
- ‘dressed in mourning’
- ‘her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful’
- ‘all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have exerted was obliterated’
give quotes describing justine’s emotional shift during her trial
- ‘calm […] appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble’
- ‘surprise, horror, and misery […] sometimes she struggled with her tears’
give quotes showing justine as symbolic of the working class
- ‘I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation’
- ‘I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope.’
give quotes from justine’s dialogue during her trial
- ‘“God knows,” she said, “how entirely I am innocent’
- ‘I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts’
- ‘I see no room for hope’
- ‘I must be condemned.’
give quotes describing victor’s after justine’s trial
- ‘such a declaration would have been considered the ravings of a madman’ [64]
- ‘My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial’ [66]
- ‘I suffered living torture’ [63]
give quotes describing the peace and awe victor finds at the summit of montanvert
- ‘The rain was pouring in torrents and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains’ [75]
- ‘I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced on my mind when I first saw it’
- ‘gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy’
- ‘causing me to forget the passing cares of life’
give a quote showing victor’s dehumanisation of the monster at montanvert
‘the shape […] the wretch […] its unearthly ugliness […] Devil […] vile insect’
give a quote that uses alliteration from montanvert
‘bespoke bitter anguish […] unearthly ugliness […] too horrible for human eyes’
give 2 quotes showing the juxtaposition between victor’s and the monster’s dialogue
- ‘Begone, vile insect! Or rather stay, that I may trample you to dust!’
- ‘Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. […] I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy part the which thou owest me’
what is the epigraph?
‘Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man?’
give an intertexttual reference from the monster’s dialogue at the summit of montanvert
‘remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel’
give a quote from victor’s dialogue at monstanvert that uses imperatives
‘Begone […] stay […] Begone! I will not hear you’
give a quote from the monster’s dialogue at montanvert that supports tabula rasa
‘I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous’
give a quote from the monster’s childhood which suggests he was not born evil
‘Darkness then came over me, and troubled me’ [79]
give a quote from the monster’s childhood presenting him as vulnerable
‘I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch’ & ‘I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invaded me on all sides, I sat down and wept’ [80]
give a quote from the monster’s childhood which aligns him with humanity
‘In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain’ [81]
give quotes describing the monster’s hovel
- ‘a low hovel, quite bare’
- ‘a wretched appearance’
- ‘wood, but so low that I could with difficulty sit upright in it’
- ‘the wind entered it by innumerable chinks’
- ‘my kennel’
-‘an agreeable asylum from the snow and rain’ - ‘all the light I enjoyed came through the sty, and that was sufficient for me’
give a quote descrcibing the villagers’ homes which contrasts the monster’s hovel
‘the palaces I beheld in the village’ & ‘joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant experience’
give a quote showing the monster’s realisation of his othering by society
‘Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?’
give a reference victor makes to paradise lost at the end of the novel
‘Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in eternal hell’ (214)
give a quote from the monster’s dialogue after he reads victor’s journal
‘but my form is a filthy type of yours […] I am solitary and abhorred’
give quotes showing the de lacey’s reaction to the monster
- ‘Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?
- ‘Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently’
give quotes showing the monster’s reaction to the de lacey’s rejection
- ‘I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope’
- ‘my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness […] overcome by pain and anguish’
give quotes describing the monster’s burning of the de lacey’s cottage
- ‘anger returned, a rage of anger’
- ‘unable to injure anything human’
- ‘destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden’
- ‘until the moon had sunk’
give a quote from early in the novel describing victor’s aim in creating the monster
‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their blessings to me’
give a quote that suggests that Victor perhaps recognises a flaw in his intellect
‘unable to arrange my ideas’;
give a quote that suggests that Victor still demonstrates his belief that he has power over the monster, even at montanvert
I do refuse it’
give a quote that suggests Victor still believes that the monster is evil, even after hearing his story
- ‘joint wickedness’
- ‘shall I create another like yourself […] might desolate the world’
give quotes describing why the monster wants a companion
- ‘malicious because I am miserable’ (111)
- ‘our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel’ (112)
give a quote showing what the monster really desires
‘creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself’ (112)
give quotes describing the desolation of the orkneys
- ‘The soil was barren’
- ‘the squalidness of the most miserable penury’
- ‘so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men’
give quotes showing victor’s privilege, even at the orkneys
- ‘I ordered it to be repaired, bought some furniture, and took possession’
- ‘I lived ungazed at and unmolested’
how does victor describe the orkenys?
as the ‘scene of my labours’
give a quote showing victor’s reason for destroying the female
‘a race of devils […] on the earth’ (127)
give a quote showing the recersed power dynamics after the destruction of the female
- ‘You are my creator, but I am your master; obey’ (128)
- ‘I shall be with you on your wedding night’ (129)
give a quote describing victor’s anguish at elizabeth’s death
‘Great God! why did I not then expire?’
give a quote describing elizabeth in her death
‘her bloodless arms and relaxed form’
give quotes from the end of the novel suggesting victor has learned his lesson about blind ambition
- ‘His fire and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness’ (160)
- ‘would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy?’
- ‘like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell’
- ‘this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, serves only to plunge me lower in the dust’
- ‘I fell never, never again to rise’
- ‘are you mad, my friend? or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own.’
give quotes from the end of the novel suggesting that Walton has learnt from Victor’s story and will no longer begave in such an ambitious and reckless way
- ‘it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me. If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause’
- ‘I write to you encompassed by peril’ (162)
- ‘I am surrounded by mountains of ice which admit no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel’ (162)
- ‘we are immured in ice and should probably never escape’ (163)
give quotes from the end of the novel suggesting that Walton and Victor have not fully learnt from their experience
- ‘Did you not call this a glorious expedition’ (163)
- ‘you shrink away, and are content to be handed down as men who has not strength enough to endure cold and peril’ (164)
- ‘but I had rather die than return shamefully - my purpose unfulfilled’ (164)
- ‘are you so easily turned from your design […] ‘You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your names adored’ (163)
- ‘this ice is made of such stuff as your hearts may be, it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say it shall not’
- ‘I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return’
- ‘be men or be more than men’
give a quote showing the monster’s guilt by the end of the novel
‘I have murdered the lovely and the helpless […] You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself’ (169)
give a quote describing the monster’s death
‘But soon […] I shall die, and what I now feel will no be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames’ (170)
