Victor Quotes

Question 1

“my own Elizabeth” (chapter 6)

Question 2

“I will write instantly, and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel” (chapter 6)

Question 3

“the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms” (chapter 6)

Question 4

“I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death” (chapter 6, blaming M. Waldman)

Question 5

“I writhed under his words” / “Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others […]” (chapter 6)

Question 6

“I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds” (chapter 6)

Question 7

“believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel” (chapter 6)

Question 8

“his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me” (chapter 6, about Henry)

Question 9

“Idleness had ever been irksome to me” / “I read merely to understand their meaning” (chapter 6”

Question 10

“warm sun” / “garden of roses” / “joy elevating” / “melancholy soothing” / “fire that consumes your own heart” (chapter 6)

Question 11

“although the spring was uncommonly late” (omen, chapter 6)

Question 12

“fellow-creatures” (chapter 6)

Question 13

“A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses” (chapter 6)

Question 14

“I became the same happy creature” / “when happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations” (chapter 6, the sublime/nature as restorative)

Question 15

“the present season was indeed divine” / “flowers of spring” / “I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me” (chapter 6)

Question 16

“my own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity” (chapter 6)