Frankenstein Flashcards

Quote 1

"I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel." Reflects antithesis and self-mythologising.

Quote 2

"Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred." Highlights comparative syntax and hyperbolic isolation.

Quote 3

"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. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create." Utilizes imperative mood and euphemistic diction.

Quote 4

"Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded." Showcases spatial imagery and passive construction.

Quote 5

"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." Juxtaposes beauty and horror with emotive triadic structure.

Quote 6

"His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath." Uses anatomical diction and grotesque imagery.

Quote 7

"Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father." Features kinetic verbs and dramatic irony.

Quote 8

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." Presents an aphoristic statement and superlative absolute.

Quote 9

"Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?" A rhetorical question employing antithesis.

Quote 10

"It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils." Demonstrates pathetic fallacy and delayed syntax.

Quote 11

"A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity." Characterizes gothic pathetic fallacy.

Quote 12

"I trembled, and my heart failed within me." Depicts somatic register and idiom of physical collapse.

Quote 13

"All the hatred that you may feel for me is not equal to that with which I regard myself." Compares internal and external perceptions of hatred.