Quotes 21-30 Flashcards
Monster baby evil
‘One hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped…’
Breaching natural order
‘It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn’
Victor makes population
‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me’
pathetic fallacy foreshadowing Monster
‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out’
Names for Monster
‘Wretch’ ‘filthy demon’ ‘devil’ ‘vile insect’ ‘dæmon’ ‘abhorred monster’
Elizabeth jarring
‘She fainted, and restored with extreme difficulty… she weeps continually’
good now sad Monster
‘I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone?’
life sucks
- ‘Hateful day when I received life!’
No lover
No Eve soothed my sorrows, nor shared my thoughts’
living sucks
‘I was doomed to live’
clay
‘Did i request thee, maker, from my clay to mould me man?’
Monster cathartic + female monster
‘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’
