Frankenstein Quotes Flashcards
Nature
“region of beauty and delight”
Nature
“country of eternal light”
Nature (Waldman)
“They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places”
Nature (Victor)
“These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving”
Nature (Victor)
“I was quickly restored by the cold gale of the mountains”
Nature (Creature)
“The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge”
Nature (Creature)
“A gentle light stole over the heavens and gave me a sensation of pleasure”
Nature (Creature)
“I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all man-kind”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst and want of sleep”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“But success shall crown my endeavours.”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge ”
Pursuit of glory (Walton)
“…slave of passion” (referring to Victor’s story)
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn…”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“penetrate the secrets of nature.”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“…I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“…I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“Learn from me… how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world…”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“I had begun life with benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings.”
Pursuit of glory (Creature)
“I am malicious because I am miserable”
Pursuit of glory (Creature)
“if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“a race of devils”
Pursuit of glory (Victor)
“seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition”
What it means to be human (Walton)
“…the safety of others is committed to my care.”
What it means to be human (Victor)
” I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.”
What it means to be human (Victor)
“I had deprived myself of rest and health.”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“I felt sensations of a particular and overpowering nature: they were a mixture of pain and pleasure…”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being , should be wretched”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained, and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots…”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“What was I?”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition”
What it means to be human (Creature)
“Evil thenceforth became my good”
What it means to be human (Victor)
“I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“…the print of the murderer’s finger was on his neck.”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“avenge the deaths”
Suffering/ revenge (Creature)
“Have I not suffered enough that you seek to increase my misery? Life…is dear to me.”
Suffering/ revenge (Creature)
“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”
Suffering/ revenge (Creature)
“I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“I devote myself, either in life or death, to his destruction”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“revenge kept me alive”
Suffering/ revenge (Victor)
“satisfy my vengeance in his death.”
Knowledge (Victor)
“…I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak… and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.”
Women (Walton)
“…I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my sprits.”
Women (Victor)
“…she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift. I… looked upon Elizabeth as mine… a possession of my own.”
Society (Victor)
“all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.”
Society (Creature)
“The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their defence before they are condemned.”
Society (Creature)
“barbarity of men”
Society (Creature)
“barbarous villagers”
Society (Creature)
“Was man indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent , yet so vicious and base?”
Society (Creature)
“Am I thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”
Isolation (Walton)
“I have no friend”
Isolation (Walton)
“I desire the company of a man”
Isolation (Creature)
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. “
Isolation (Creature)
“am I not alone, miserably alone?”
Isolation (Creature)
“I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers”
Isolation (Creature)
“I have no relation or friend upon earth”
Prejudice (names creature is called)
“Catastrophe” “wretch” “daemon” “monster”
Prejudice (Victor)
“…the miserable monster whom I had created.”
Prejudice (Victor)
“A flash of lightning illuminated the object”
Prejudice (Victor)
“wretched mockery of justice”
Prejudice (Victor)
“Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.”
Prejudice (creature)
“The whole village…attacked me… “
Prejudice (creature)
“I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am”
Prejudice (creature)
“a fatal prejudice clouds against me”
Characterisation (Creature’s appearance)
“dull yellow eye of the creature” “yellow skin” “watery eyes” “shrivelled complexion” “straight black lips” "Horror and misfortune"
Characterisation (Victor)
“I resolved to remain silent”
Characterisation (Creature)
“I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but rather I am thy fallen angel”
Characterisation (Creature)
“I shall die”
Characterisation (Creature)
“Where can I find rest but in death?”
Responsibility (Victor)
“It was to be decided, whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of my fellow-beings…”
Responsibility (Victor)
“heart-sickening despair that I then endured.”
Responsibility (Victor)
“I had been the author of unalterable evils”
Responsibility (Victor)
“I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer.”
Responsibility (Victor)
” I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were”
Responsibility (Victor)
“extinguish the spark that I so negligently bestowed”
Responsibility (Victor)
“did I not as his maker, owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?”
Responsibility (Victor)
“I was the slave of my creature”
Responsibility (Victor)
“I am the assassin of those most innocent victims”
Responsibility (Creature)
“You are my creator, but I am your master-obey!”
Responsibility (Walton)
“I cannot lead them unwillingly to danger, and I must return”
