Minor Characters - Frankenstein Flashcards
“But that would be a cruel kindness” - Victor’s father, chapter 7
“Absence can not have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long, absent son?” / “tears” “wretchedness” “woeful news” - building suspense
“William is dead!” chapter 7
“the evening was warm and serene” / “dusk” / “blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass living and motionless” chapter 7
“Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds” chapter 7
“that dear, lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother!” / “how much more a murderer, that could destroy such radiant innocence” / “we must reserve that [pity] for his miserable survivors” chapter 7, Clerval about William
“If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality” chapter 7
Justine’s executioners/judges, chapter 8:
“harsh unfeeling reasoning of these men” / “my passionate and indignant appeals were lost upon them” / “cold answers” / “failed to move the judges from their settled conviction in the criminality of the saintly sufferer”
