Frankenstein quotes Flashcards

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the creature warns victor to “watch the wiliness of a…

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snake, that may sting with his venom”.

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the creature is filled with “the impotence…

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of anger”

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at the delacy cottage we witness “kindness and

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affection”

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the creature was “gilded by bright rays

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of hope”

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the creature “could not help..

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believing”

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victor believes her will “hasten to..

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the arms” [of his “beloved dead”]

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victor warns walton that he should “avoid…

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ambition”

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Victor encourages walton to hope as he was “blasted in…

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my hopes”

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9
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Victor believes science will “pour a torrent of…

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light into a dark world”

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10
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Victor desires to make humans…

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“invulnerable” to disease

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he hopes science will “banish disease from…

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the human frame”

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victor intended the creature to be “beautiful” but…

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instead fills him with “horror and disgust”

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the creature gives victor hopes of him being…

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“blessed”

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victor fears the creature will propagate a “race…

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of devils”

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victor fears the creature will threaten the “very…

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existence” of mankind

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victor convinces himself that the creature is a “monster” and a….

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“devil”

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“i love my cousin tenderly and sincerly i never saw any woman who excited as Elizabeth does…

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my warmest admiration and affection. my future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up in the expectation of our union”

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“i eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers,…

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i ought not to make the attempt until i had become master of their language”

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“now that i had finished the beauty…

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of the dream had vanished”

20
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“i resolved to return to the cottage, seek the old man…

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and by my representations with him to my party”

21
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“what i ask of you is reasonable and moderate; i demand a creature of…

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another sex but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small but it is all that i can receive and it shall content me”

22
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“i am malicious because …

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i am miserable”

23
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“but revenge kept me alive…

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i dared not die and leave my adversary in being”

24
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“it is well i go but

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remember i shall be with you your wedding night”

25
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“but now when i appeared almost in grasp of my foe…

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my hopes were suddenly extinguished and i lost all trace of him more utterly than i had ever done before”

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“the work was soon finished in a few minutes a tumultuous sea…

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rolled between me and my enemy and I was left drifting on a shattered piece of ice”