Frankentein Quotes And HMT Flashcards
Creature showing longing for a friend
“I feel the bitter want fir a friend” “I have no friend”
Creatures rejection of others joy
“I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me”
Creature describing what he’s missed without family watching DeLaceys
“But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses”
Victor describing creatures attempt at connection
“One hand was stretched out seemingly to detain me”
Creature describing how he needs female creature
“ I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me”
Victors aspirations
“who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow”
Victors comparison to Prometheus
“Like the archangel who inspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell”
Victors possessiveness of Elizabeth
“I…looked upon Elizabeth as mine/ mine to protect, love and cherish…a possession of my own”
Objectifying Elizabeth
“Promised gift”
Victor showing commitment to Elizabeth
“Yet I would die to make her happy”
Victors death
“While the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips”
The creatures death, talking about victor
“I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration”
Creature describing nature before death
“I shall no longer see the sun or stars or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense will pass away
“ ( euphemistic language similar to victors smile, shows difference between them). “
Creature looking back on his account of birth
“I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds” (viewed nature as his only guidance in life”
Lexical field of hell in creatures final speech- views himself as Satan
“Burning miseries” “torturing flames” “My ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds”
Creature identifying connection to Adam
“Like Adam, I was apparently united by no like to any other being in existence/ he had come forth from the hands of god a perfect creature…but I was wretched, helpless and alone” (victor self deification)
Creature connecting himself to Satan
“Many times I considered satan as the fitter emblem of my condition”
Creature describing lightness and darkness
“A stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes. Darkness then came over me” foreshadowing? Refering to death and life and heaven and hell
“Light poured” “ dark and opaque”
Creatures encounter emotion
“Sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure”
Creature describing view of delaceys
“ nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between the two excellent creatures. One was old, with silver hairs and a countenance beaming with benevolence and love; the younger was slight and graceful in his figure, and his features were mounded with the finest symmetry”
Liminal state at birth
“Half- extinguished light” “ it was a dreary night of November where I beheld the accomplishment of my toils” “rain pattered”
Victors account of the creatures birth
“Grin wrinkled his lips”. “a convulsive motion agitated its limbs” “Yellow eye “ “ yellow skin” “ black lips” “ demonical corpse”
The creature reflecting insecurity on the boy in the Delaney family
“Molded with the finest symmetry”
Offered deceiving her uniform which defines her
“Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us” - identity defined my patriarchal values, symbolize reproduction and fertility through color of blood
