Frankenstein ultimate quote list Flashcards

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an enterprise which

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you have regarded with such evil foreboding
(walton’s letters at the start)

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a land surpassing

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in wonder and in beauty every region (walton’s letters at the start)

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ardent

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curiosity (walton’s letters at the start)

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poets whose

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effusions entranced my soul (walton’s letters at the start)

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a most severe evil

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I have no friend (walton’s letters at the start)

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savage

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inhabitant (walton’s letters at the start)

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inexpressible

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grace (about Caroline, chapter 1)

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silken

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cord

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bearing a celestial

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stamp (Elizabeth)

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deeply smitten

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with the thirst for knowledge

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possessed by the very spirit of

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kindness and indulgence (victor’s parents)

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sad

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trash

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fervent longing to

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penetrate the secrets of nature

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a most violent and terrible

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thunderstorm

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curiosity and

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delight (when watching the storm in chapter 2)

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blasted

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stump

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destiny was too potent

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and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction

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my firmest hopes of future happiness were

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placed in the prospect of your union

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i will endeavour

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to resign myself cheerfully to death

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she veiled

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her grief (elizabeth’s sacrifice)

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my mind was filled with

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one thought, one conception, one purpose

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the labours of men of genius,

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…scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of humankind

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i paid no

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visit to geneva (chapter 3)

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painful

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labour (chapter 3)

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a new species would
bless me as its creator and source
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workshop
of filthy creation
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livid with
the hue of death (the creature upon its creation)
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one hand was
stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped
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a voyage of discovery
to the land of knowledge
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friends who
love you dearly (elizabeth's letter to victor)
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the print of the murderer's finger
was on his neck
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the calm and
heavenly scene restored me
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depraved
wretch
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my own vampire,
my own spirit let loose from the grave
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who is safe if
she is convicted of a crime? (Justine)
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when i see a fellow creature about
to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, i wish to be allowed to speak
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the fangs
of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold
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he who would spend
each vital drop of blood for your sakes
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the first hapless
victims to my unhallowed arts
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solitude was
my only consolation
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i was tempted to plunge
into the silent lake
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i ardently wished to extinguish
that life which i had so thoughtlessly bestowed
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i, not in deed but in
in effect, was the true murderer
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naught had changed
in those savage and enduring scenes
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3 descriptions of the creature
devil, daemon, abhorred monster
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i aught to be
thy Adam
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make me happy,
and i shall again be virtuous
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i ate some berries
which i found hanging on the trees
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feeling pain
invade me on all sides, i sat down and wept
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the science of
words and letters
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i saw no cause for their unhappiness
but was deeply affected by it
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i viewed myself in a transparent pool...
i became fully convinced that i was in reality the monster that i am
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it might be in my power
to restore happiness to these deserving people
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the art of
language
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my spirits were elevated by
the enchanting appearance of nature
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angelic
beauty (safie)
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sorrow only
increased with knowledge
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taught her to aspire to higher powers
of intellect and an independence of spirit
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he loathed the idea that
his daughter should be united to a christian
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safie nursed her with
the most devoted affection
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i felt the greatest ardour
for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice
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i am solitary
and abhorred
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the unnatural hideousness
of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me
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i am blind
and cannot judge your countenance
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you raise me from
the dust by this kindness
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felix darted forward, and
with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees i clung
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why did
i live?
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i, like the archfiend,
bore a hell within me
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inflamed by pain,
i vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind
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unfeeling,
heatless creator
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i felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure,
that had long appeared dead, revive within me (because of nature)
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i too can create
desolation
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it softened
and attracted me (the picture of caroline)
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my companion must be of the same species
and have the same defects as me
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did i not as his maker
owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?
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my future hopes and prospects are
entirely bound up in the expectation of our union
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to me the idea of an immediate union
with my Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay
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this deadly weight
around my neck
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he was alive
to every new scene (clerval)
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i saw an insurmountable
barrier placed between me and my fellow men, the barrier was sealed with the blood of William and Justine
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i shuddered to think that
future ages might curse me as their pest
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tore to pieces
the thing on which i was engaged
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you are my creator
but i am your master
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i shall be with you
on your wedding night
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there was no sign of any violence
except the black mark of fingers on his neck
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why did i not
die?
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the appearance of my father
was to me like that of my good angel
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our marriage would render me eternally miserable,
unless it were the dictate of your own free choice
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the apple was
already eaten
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Elizabeth alone had the power
to draw me from these fits
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those were the last moments of my life
during which i enjoyed the feeling of happiness
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she was there, lifeless and unanimate,
thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair
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a grin was
on the face of the monster
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revenge kept me alive;
i dared not die and leave my adversary in being
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his soul is as hellish as his form,
full of treachery and fiendlike malice
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learn my miseries
and do not seek to increase your own
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you may give up your purpose
but mine is assigned to me by heaven
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you hate me; but
your abhorrence cannot equal that with which i regard myself