Frankenstein quotes

Elizabeth is "heaven-sent" and "angelic"

The glorification of Elizabeth, heaven imagery which contrasts the hell imagery used to describe the monster, she is pure and above humanity

"a possession of my own"

Victor sees Elizabeth as an object, theme of gender

Walton has "ardent curiosity"

Adjective "ardent" increases the strength of his curiosity, his passion, connects to Victor and how they are both very curious and want to discover things

"secrets of heaven and earth"

Victor wants to learn these, the hyperbole suggests the extent of his curiosity being very big, heaven suggests the idea of him wanting to use science to become god-like

"I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave"

Unhallowed has religious connotations of being unholy, grave digging was associated with criminal activity which is a sign of Victor's transgression

"A new species would bless me as its creator and source"

Theme of creation, links to Prometheus and Victor's passion cauing him to try to take the role of God

"all humankind sinned against me"

The monster use of hyperbole "all" suggests his emotion, "sinned" biblical imagery where the roles are reversed from the common image of the monster being a sinful demon

"ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us"

The monster reminding Victor that they are irrevocably tied while they both live, "annihilation" has a strong negative connotation which could also be associated with the biblical day of Judgement

"the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials"

The monster's creation was aided with animal parts, animals are naturally innocent like the monster was before he suffered due to humans

"the daemon"

How Victor refers to the monster, embodies the concept of evil, contrasts to the God/heaven imagery he uses for himself and Elizabeth

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

The monster claims to have been "made" into a fiend, he is the object of the clause and does is not active in the action, use of semicolon directly compares how he was and how he now is

Monster created on a "dreary night"

Pathetic fallacy and foreshadowing to the negative view Victor will have of the monster

"tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay"

Torturing animals especially negative as Shelley was vegetarian, animating clay is a reference to Prometheus, contrast between his disregard of the "living" animal for the "lifeless" clay in his quest