monstrosity Flashcards
creature’s physical appearance
“black lips//watery eyes//yellow skin//teeth of pearly whiteness”
creature’s physical stature
“advancing towards me with supernatural speed”
“gigantic stature”
creature becoming kind and not monstrous
“I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing.”
creature feeling monstrous bc of victor’s abandonment
“I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.”
“his countenance expressed the utmost of malice and treachery.”
victor appearing monstrous initially
“gigantic stature”
“apparition”
victor’s monstrous actions
“collected bones from the charnel house”
“the world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”
“As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect upon their cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable daemon whom I had sent abroad into the world.”
“Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.”
