Frankenstein & The Bloody Chamber Quotes

frankenstein - corruption / innocence / nature / ambition / science

'a fervent

longing to penetrate the secrets of nature.' (victor)

transgress nature's boundaries

male ambition as violent

the enlightenment / galvani / prometheus

frankenstein - nature / science / ambition / innocence / corruption

'i pursued

nature to her hiding places' (victor)

frankenstein - ambition / science

'i will

pioneer a new way' (victor)

frankenstein - ambition / science

'i preferred

glory to every other enticement wealth placed in my path' (walton)

frankenstein - ambition / innocence / otherness / isolation

'i longed to

join them, but dared not' (creature)

frankenstein - ambition / innocence / isolation

'i ardently desired

to become acquainted with it' (creature)

frankenstein - passive women / angel in the house

'her sympathy

was ours' (victor)

frankenstein - passive women / separate spheres

'he came

to the girl like a protecting spirit' (victor)

frankenstein - innocence / society

'benevolent

countenance'

describes delacey

frankenstein - innocence / society / acceptable

'voice sweeter than

the voice of thrust'

describes delacey

the bloody chamber - innocence / corruption / women

'in my innocence

he sensed a rare talent for corruption'

the bloody chamber - disobedience / women

'took the

forbidden key from the heap'

the bloody chamber - women / gothic subversion

'put a single

irreproachable bullet through [her] husband's head'

the bloody chamber - women / men / gothic subversion

'it spared

my shame'

jean yves does not see narrator as object

the bloody chamber - women / men / gothic subversion

'you do not

deserve this'

jean yves supports narrator instead of oppressing her + reject male power

the bloody chamber - women / men / gothic subversion

'such

technique'

appreciates narrator for skill rather than seeing her as object through male gaze

the tigers bride - men / gothic subversion

'a single

tear'

the tigers bride - men / gothic subversion

'crude

clumsiness'

not a typical gothic villain, humanising

the tigers bride - men / gothic subversion

'he was far

more frightened of me'

passive