Frankenstein quotes Flashcards
Victor describes his temporary (even with biased narration)
*my temper was sometimes violent”
like the monster
Walters description of Victor. very similar to the monster
x3
“creature” “wildness and even madness”
“wise” “gentle”
Victor describing Elizabeth as a possession
x4
“treasure” “my pleasure” “she was to be mine only”
Caroline called her a “gift” for Victor
Victor describes Elizabeth as beyond human - god like
x4
“cherub” “heaven sent” “soft voice” “celestial”
Monster on his exclusion from Society
“everywhere I see bliss from which I am irrevocably excluded”
Victor describing a storm,
child like the word is a toy for nature - nature holds the Ultimate power
“I saw lightning playing on the summit of mount blanc”
Monster on knowledge
more similarities to victor
“knowlage clings to the mind like a lichen on a rock”
How Victor describes the monster
JUXTAPOSIS GOTHIC STYLE OF OTHER DESCRIPTIONS (yet still not human)
“superhuman speed”
Nature
descriptive words used
x4
“magnificent” “wonderful and sublime” “mighty”
“tremendous dome”
On making the monster,
unlocking something that was already there
“unchained an enemy”
all women idealised
Agatha
Safie x2
Caroline
“ever gentle”
“always gay and happy” + “infufused” Felix “new life into his soul”
“passion” rather than “duty”
Victors solitude
gothic semantic field
x3
“dark” “deep” “deathlike”
Gothic style of the monsters ‘birth’
x3
“grave worms” “grin wrinkled his cheeks” “corpse of my dead mother”
victors ambition, shows Nativity and selfishness
“a new species would bless me as its creator”
how Victor feels in genever,
animal inhuman like description
like the monster
“cooped up”
Words used to describe the monster
Gothic
x5-7
dreaded. fiend. corpse. deamon. wretch.
archfiend. demonical.
Victor talks about the happiness of ignorance
kikid
“how much happier that man who believes his native town to be the world”
the monster is show to be eloquent and persuasive
biblical reference
“remember I am thy creature, I ought to be thy Adam”
Victors hyperbolic language towards himself
biased narration
“suffered great unparalleled misfortune”
Monster seeks friendship from Victor
wants to be nice
“to whom thy justice and even thy clemency is most due”
description of victors parents
raised up well, juxtaposes monsters upbringing
“possessed by the very spirit of kindness”
Victor on his own ambition
it’s a..
“fatal impulse”
