Frankenstein Key Quotes

Elizabeth's Appearance 1

Elizabeth's Appearance 1

'a child fairer than a painted cherub'

Elizabeth's Appearance 2

'shed radiance from her looks'

Elizabeth as a Possession 1

'till death she was to be mine only'

Elizabeth as a Possession 2

'the saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our home'

The Monster's Appearance 1

'these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes'

The Monster's Appearance 2

'My person was hideous and my structure gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come?

The Monster's Appearance 3

'Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?'

The Monster as Hated 1

'I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster to whom I had given life'

The Monster as Hated 2

'The demoniacal corpse to whom I had given life'

The Monster as Monstrous 1

'I will glut the maw of death till it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends'

The Monster as Hated 3

‘Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light!’

Victor's Ambition 1

‘what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!’

Victor's Ambition 2

'Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock'

Victor's Hatred of the Monster 1

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

Victor's Hatred of the Monster 2

'The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes'

Victor's Delusions 1

'All voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost'

Victor's Delusions 2

'He can tell- Oh save me! save me!'

Victor's ego

'The tortures of the accused did not equal mine'

Walton's Ambition 1

'I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep’

Walton's Ambition 2

'What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?'

Walton's Admiration of Victor

‘He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated; and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence’.

Prejudice 1

'wretched mockery of justice'

Prejudice 2

'All men hate the wretched, how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!’

Prejudice 3

'What hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures; who spurn and hate me?'

Prejudice 4

'Everywhere I see bliss, from which I am irrevocably excluded’

Prejudice 5

'monster! ugly wretch! you wish to eat me’

Nature vs Nurture 1

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

Nature vs Nurture 2

'Begone vile insect!'

Nature vs Nurture 3

'I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend'

Nature vs Nurture 4

'relieve me from the sight of your detested form'

Science vs Nature 1

'My eyes were insensible to the charms of nature'

Science vs Nature 2

'I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves- sights which before always yielded me supreme delight'

Science vs Nature 3

'I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me'

Science vs Nature 4

'I saw lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures'