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Mary Shelley (1818) Frankenstein: Key Quotations Flashcards

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‘I desire the company of a man who could sympathise with me’

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Walton: Letter II

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‘My reign is not yet over’

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The Creature: Chapter 24

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‘…the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil’

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The Creature: Walton, in Continuation

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‘I pursued nature to her hiding places’

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Victor: Chapter 4

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‘Oh! no mortal could support the horror of that countenance’

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Victor: Chapter 4

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‘Cursed, cursed Creator! Why did I live?’

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The Creature: Chapter 16

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‘Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art!’

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Victor: Chapter 10

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‘I looked upon them as superior beings’

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The Creature: Chapter 12

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‘I shall be with you on your wedding night’

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The Creature: Chapter 20

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‘I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale’

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Victor: Letter IV

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‘…her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier.’

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Victor: Chapter 23

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‘I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel’

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The Creature: Chapter 10

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The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart’

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Victor: Chapter 5

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‘I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous’

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The Creature: Chapter 10

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And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?’

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Walton: Letter I

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‘Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision’

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Walton, in Continuation

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‘Clerval!’ Beloved friend! … He was being formed in the very poetry of nature’

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Victor: Chapter 18

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‘… a countenance of angelic beauty and expression.’

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The Creature describing Felix seeing Safie: Chapter 13

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‘Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind has sinned against me?’

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The Creature: Walton, in Continuation

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‘These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation’

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Victor: Chapter 10

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‘One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge which I sought’

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Walton: Letter IV

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‘But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles…’

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The Creature: Chapter 13

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‘The fangs of remorse tore my bosom’

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Victor: Chapter Eight (Justine’s trial)

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‘Men appear to me monsters searching for each other’s blood’

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Elizabeth: Chapter 9

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‘Sorrow only increased with knowledge’

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The Creature: Chapter 13

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