Frankenstein quotes Flashcards
Injustice and despair - the creatures rejection and corruption (1)
“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”
“ …demonical corps to which I had a so miserably given life.”
Injustice and despair - the creatures rejection (2) - cursed creator
“Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your’s, more horrid from its very resemblance”
injustice and despair - the creatures rejection (3) - paradise lost
“I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”
injustice and despair - the creatures rejection (4)
‘“I expected this reception,” said the daemon. “All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!”’
uncertainty and despair - Victor Frankenstein (1)
“Despair! Who dared talk of that? The poor victim, who on the morrow was to pass the awful boundary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bitter agony.”
uncertainty and despair - Victor Frankenstein (2) - isolation
“I shunned my fellow-creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.”
uncertainty and despair - Victor Frankenstein (3) - it is horror
“It is horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that have been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!”
uncertainty and despair - Victor Frankenstein (4)
“before I was attacked by the fatal passion.”
Victors despair - his mother’s death
“… they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the Corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel.”
injustice and despair - the creatures rejection - prejudice (5)
“they are kind - they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but unfortunately… a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster .”
Restoration - creatures death (3 quotes)
“I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish … and in this condition must I find my happiness.”
“Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”
“My spirit will sleep in peace.”
The creature seeks some form of unity by asking Frankenstein for a mate. (1)
“Instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable…. tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?… Shall I respect man when he contemns me?”
The creature seeks some form of unity by asking Frankenstein for a mate. (2)
“What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me… Oh! my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I can excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!”
Victor at first aspired to create life and was motivated by the loss he had experienced (the death of his mother) as well as his studies and knowledge of natural philosophy
(3 quotes)
“…more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”
“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.”
“They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers;”
The creature aspired to be a part of humanity, to be accepted by his creator, and to be accepted by humankind (seen through his care for the DeLaceys) - (2 quotes)
“ when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their Joys.”
“I looked upon them as superior beings… I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanor and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love.”
