Frankenstein quotes

Question 1

ISOLATION Walton in Letter two, “I have no friend…”

Answer 1

I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.

Question 2

AMBITION Victor in letter four, “You seek for knowledge…”

Answer 2

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Question 3

AMBITION Victor in chapter four, “Life and death appeared…”

Answer 3

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Question 4

AMBITION Victor in chapter four, “Learn from me, if…”

Answer 4

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

Question 5

AMBITION Victor in chapter 5, “For this I had deprived…”

Answer 5

For this I had deprived myself of rest and health… …breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

Question 6

MONSTROSITY Creature in chapter 10, “All men hate the wretched…”

Answer 6

All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature…

Question 7

ISOLATION Creature in chapter 13, “When I looked around…”

Answer 7

When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

Question 8

FAMILY Creature in chapter 16, “My companion must be…”

Answer 8

My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.

Question 9

REVENGE Creature in chapter 20, “You can blast my…”

Answer 9

You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!

Question 10

REVENGE Victor in chapter 22, “…miserable marriage…”

Answer 10

(…)the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim.

Question 11

AMBITION Victor in chapter 24, “Seek happiness and tranquility…”

Answer 11

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Question 12

ISOLATION/DOUBLING Victor in chapter 24, “The fallen angel become…”

Answer 12

The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

Question 13

ISOLATION/ISOLATION Creature in chapter 15, “Satan had his companions…”

Answer 13

Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.

Question 14

PREJUDICE Creature in chapter 24, “Was there no justice…”

Answer 14

Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?

Question 15

REVENGE Victor in chapter 6, “ My hatred burst…”

Answer 15

My hatred burst all bounds of moderation

Question 16

REVENGE Victor in chapter 20, “I resolved not to…”

Answer 16

I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle

Question 17

REVENGE Creature in chapter 16, “Frankenstein! You then…”

Answer 17

Frankenstein! You then belong to my enemy- to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim.

Question 18

REVENGE Monster in chapter 16, “When I reflected that they had…”

Answer 18

When I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned

Question 19

FAMILY Victor in chapter 2, “No human being could have…”

Answer 19

No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself

Question 20

FAMILY Creature in chapter 13, “No father had watched…”

Answer 20

No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses

Question 21

FAMILY Walton in letter 2, “My best years spent…”

Answer 21

My best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character

Question 22

FAMILY Victor in chapter 3, “She attended her sickbed…”

Answer 22

She attended her sickbed…Elizabeth was saved…but the consequences of this imprudence were fatal to her observer

Question 23

FAMILY Creature in chapter 12, “What chiefly struck me was…”

Answer 23

What chiefly stuck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, but dared not

Question 24

PREJUDICE Creature in chapter 12, “Alas! I did not…”

Answer 24

Alas! I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity

Question 25

PREJUDICE Victor in chapter 8, “Thus I might proclaim myself…”

Answer 25

Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim. She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!

Question 26

PREJUDICE Alphonso in chapter 7, “‘Dearest niece’ said my…”

Answer 26

‘Dearest niece’, said my father, ‘dry your tears. If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws’

Question 27

Romanticism victory chapter 2, “the sublime shapes…”

Answer 27

The sublime shapes of the mountains; the changes of the seasons; …- she found ample scope for admiration and delight

Question 28

Romanticism victor in chapter 10, “these sublime and…”

Answer 28

These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving

Question 29

Monstrosity Victor in chapter 10, names?

Answer 29

Devil, abhorred monster, vile insect, wretched devil

Question 30

Monstrosity, creature in chapter 1, “do your duty towards me…”

Answer 30

Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind

Question 31

Isolation, victor in chapter 4, “and the same feelings that”

Answer 31

caused me to neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent

Question 32

ROMANTICISM Victor in chapter 2, “whilst my companion contemplated…”

Answer 32

Whilst my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent nature if things, I delighted in investigating their causes

Question 33

Isolation, victor in chapter 4, “in a solitary…”

Answer 33

In a solitary chamber, or rather cell

Question 34

Romanticism, victor in chapter 4, “the moon gazed in…”

Answer 34

The moon gazed in on my midnight labours, while, with unrelated and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places

Question 35

Ambition, victor in chapter 4, “ I could not…”

Answer 35

I could not tear my thoughts from my employment