Frankenstien Quotes Flashcards

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Walton
“i ______l the want of a _____”

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“i bitterly feel the want of a friend”

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Walton on ambition
“accomplish a ____ _____”
describes North Pole as the place of “_____________”

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“accomplish a greater purpose”
describes North Pole as the place of “eternal light”

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Walton descriptions of monster and VF

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“gigantic statue…savage inhabitant”

“nobel…cultivated”
“European”

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Quotes from FV
“____ of ___”
“share my ____”
“_____ to ____ you”
“learn from me…how ______ the acquirement of ______”

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“slave of passion”
“share my madness”
“seperant to sting you”
“learn from me…how dangerous the acquirement of knowledge”

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Quotes about VF on his mother’s death
“the _____ that presents itself to the ____”
“i could_____ life where death had devoted the body to _____ “

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“the void that presents itself to the soul”
“i thought…if i could bestow animation… i could renew life where death had devoted the body to corruption”

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Quotes on death from VF

“it was the secrets of _____ and ____ i desired to learn”

“____ appearead _____ ____- which i should _____ ____”

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“it was the secrets of heaven and earth i desired to learn”

“death appearead ideal bounds which i should break through”

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VF creation being a selfish goal
“A new species would ___ ___ as their _____”

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“A new species would bless me as their creator”

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VF descriptions of his creature
“___ daemon”
“this ______”
“______ horror and _____ filled me heart”

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“vile daemon”
“this catastrophe”
“breathless horror and disgust filled me heart”

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VF on the social impact of abimtion

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“feeling made me neglect the scenes around me…to forget those friends”

“I could not tear my thoughts from my employment”

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Quotes from Victor about the guilt of family deaths

“I suffered living ____”
“it was to be decided…whether the result of my _____ and ______ would cause the death”
“all was to be ____ and i the ___”
“the first _____ _____s of my _______ arts”

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“I suffered living torture”
“it was to be decided…whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death”
“all was to be obliterated and i the cause”
“the first hapless victims of my unhallowed arts”

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Quotes from creature to VF in face2face
“How dare you ____ thus with life”
“do your ____ toward me and i will do mine toward you and the rest of _____”
“i was _____ my ____ glowed with love and _______“
“these ____skies and ____ to me than your fellow beings”

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“How dare you sport thus with life”
“do your duty toward me and i will do mine toward you and the rest of mankind”
“i was benevolent my soul glowed with love and humanity “
“these bleak skies and kinder to me than your fellow beings”

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quotes on justice

You accuse me of murder…you yet with a _____- _____destroy your own creature”

“wretched ______ of justice” VF

“was judged on his ____ and ____ rather than the crime alleged against him”

“was there no _____ in this? Am I to be thought only _____ when all humankind ____ against me “

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You accuse me of murder…you yet with a satisfied conscience destroy your own creature”

“wretched mockery of justice” VF

“was judged on his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him”

“was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought only criminal when all human kind sinned against me “

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Quotes from monster about early experiences

I felt t_____ by hunger and thirst
I was ______ by cold

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I felt tormented by hunger and thirst
I was oppressed by cold

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Quotes from creature about Human violence

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“some attacked me until i was grievously bruised by stones”
“ i escaped and fearfully took refuge”
“miserable…from the barbarity of man”

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Creature quotes on cottage family

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“the gentle manners of these people.. i longed to join them”
“i looked upon them as superior beings”
“my friends”

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Monster quotes on self

“my______ only increased with ______”

“____ was i?”
“where were my r______”

“endued with a figure h_____- ____ and _____”

“a ___ upon the ____”

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“my sorrow only increased with knowledge”

“what was i?”
“where were my relations”

“endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome”

“a blot upon the earth”

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Monster quotes on literature

“raised me to ____…sunk me into the lowest ______”

“i ______ and partly ______ them”

“but Paradise Lost exicted different _____ emotions”

“Many times i considred Satan as the ____-_____ of my _____”

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“raised me to ecstasy…sunk me into the lowest dejection”

“i sympathsed and partly understood them”

“but Paradise Lost exicted different deeper emotions”

“Many times i considred Satan as the fitter emblem of my coniditon”

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“If no man allowed any ____ whatsoever to interfere with the tr_____ ___ ____ ____, Greece had not been enslaved”

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If no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved

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As the memory of past ______ ____ upon me, I began to reflect upon their ___ —the____ whom I had created

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As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect upon their cause—the monster whom I had created

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The ____ was to me a secret which I desired to d____.

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The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.

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I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my ____ ceased, and I turned away with _____ and _____.

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I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing.

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“These ____ and _____ scenes afforded me the greatest _______”

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“These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation”

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“The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose ____ ____ he depended on for _____ “

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“The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended on for happiness”

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“but fatal ____ ____their eyes”

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“but fatal prejudice clouds their eyes”

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“the ____ mountains…the picture appeared a vast ___ scene of ____”

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“the dark mountains…the picture appeared a vast dim scene of evil”