Frankenstein Quotes WIP

Question 1

Humanity - solitary

Answer 1

“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”

Question 2

Humanity - love/fear

Answer 2

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

Question 3

Humanity - feelings

Answer 3

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

Question 4

Knowledge - senseless curiosity

Answer 4

“‘Are you mad, my friend?’ said he; ‘or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! learn my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.’”

Question 4

Humanity - remorse

Answer 4

“Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”

Question 5

Punishment - frozen

Answer 5

“His limbs were nearly frozen and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.”

Question 5

Nature - broken in spirit

Answer 5

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.”

Question 6

Subjectivity - narration

Answer 6

“Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he… corrected and augmented them… ‘Since you have preserve my narration,’ said he, ‘I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity’.”

Question 7

Knowledge - ignorant

Answer 7

“‘Man,’ I cried, ‘how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!’”

Question 8

Humanity - life

Answer 8

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

Question 9

Knowledge - dangerous

Answer 9

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge an dhow much much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”

Question 9

Power - change

Answer 9

“The change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete.”

Question 9

Humanity - truth

Answer 9

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”

Question 10

Science - life

Answer 10

“I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.”

Question 12

Power - fearless

Answer 12

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”

Question 13

Nature - recesses

Answer 13

“They penetrate into the recesses of nature”

Question 14

Creator/Created - fallen angel

Answer 14

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel”

Question 15

Science - ugly

Answer 15

“Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endured with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on hime while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.”

Question 16

Knowledge - books

Answer 16

“They consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch’s Lives and the Sorrows of Werter.”

Question 17

Knowledge - soul

Answer 17

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand”

Question 18

Humanity - conscience

Answer 18

“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

Question 19

Knowledge - cowardice

Answer 19

“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquires.”

Question 20

Humanity - souls

Answer 20

“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”

Question 22

Science - human nature

Answer 22

“often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation”

Question 23

Nature - elevating

Answer 23

“seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth”

Question 24

Knowledge - desire

Answer 24

“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge”

Question 25

Nature - spring

Answer 25

“it was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence”

Question 26

Humanity - impulses

Answer 26

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that word may convey to us”

Question 28

Nature - harmony

Answer 28

“the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man”

Question 29

Humanity - change

Answer 29

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

Question 30

Knowledge - intellectual eye

Answer 30

“A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye”

Question 32

Humanity - outward form

Answer 32

“once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me of the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding”

Question 33

Nature - breeze

Answer 33

“a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks… fills me with delight”

Question 34

Humanity - evil

Answer 34

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

Question 35

Humanity - sympathy

Answer 35

“I do know that for the sympathy of one live being. I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Question 36

Knowledge - negligent

Answer 36

“…come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which, I so negligently bestowed”