the end is nigh Frank

vol 1 & 2 done

Letter 1: (Walton) “I feel my heart glow with an…”

“I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven”

Letter 1: (Walton) “I shall satiate my…”

“I shall satiate my ardent curiosity”

“with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man”

Letter 1: (Walton” “I preferred glory to…”

“I preferred glory to every enticement”

Letter 1: (Walton) “inestimable benefit which I shall…”

“inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all man-kind to the last generation”

Letter 1: (Setting)

• “the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon”

• “snow and frost are banished”

• “perpetual splendour”

• “country of eternal light”

Letter 2: (Walton) “I shall do…”

“I shall do nothing rashly”

Letter 2: (Walton) “Should you never…”

“Should you never hear from me again”

Letter 2: (Walton) His lietenant “he is madly…”

“He is madly desirous of glory”

Letter 2: (Walton) “I shall kill no…”

“I shall kill no albatross”

Letter 3: “I will not rashly…”

“I will not rashly encounter danger. I will be cool, persevering, and prudent”

Letter 4: (Walton) CREATURE ORIGINS 2 QUOTES

“a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic structure”

“until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice”

Letter 4: (Victor)

“gnashes his teeth”

Letter 4 part 2: (Walton) “My affection for my…”

“My affection for my guest increased everyday”

Chapter 1: What does Victor call Elizabeth?

“favourite animal” “insect” “bird”

“I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal”

Chapter 2: “the soil was…”

“the soil was barren”

where is the epigram of frankenstein from

paradise lost

what does Walton say about the sun and snow and frost in letter one

“the sun is for ever visible” “snow and frost are banished”

What is the arctic to Walton?

“country of eternal light”

L1 Walton: “I shall…” satiate

“I shall satiate my ardent curiosity”

L1: Walton “I preferred glory to…”

“I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path”

L2: Walton “I have no..”

“I have no friend”

“I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties”

L1: Walton “If I fail, you will…”

“If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never”

L2: Walton “Those are fixed…” (his resolutions)

“Those are fixed as fate” → Shelley establishes ambition as inexorable

L2: Walton “I shall kill…”

“I shall kill no albatross”

L4: Atmosphere when Jacob pulls up

“vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end”

“very thick fog”

L4: Walton “a being which…”

“a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic structure”

What does Walton refer to Victor as L4

“I never saw a more interesting creature”

“expression of wildness”

“he gnashes his teeth”

“beam of benevolence and sweetness” if any kindness is done to him

L4: Walton “I begin to….”

“I begin to love him as a brother”

Victor L4: “I ardently hope…”

“I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.”

“my fate is nearly fulfilled”

C1: “But before I…”

“but before I continue my narrative”

C1: Caroline Beaufort possessed

a mind of an uncommon mould

What does Victor refer to Elizabeth as in chapter one?

“gay and playful as a summer insect”

“as lively as a bird’s” (eyes)

“light and airy”

“most fragile creature in the world”

“I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal”

C1: Victor “the world was to me…”

“The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy which she sought to people with imaginations of her own”

C1: Clerval is a boy

“of singular talent and fancy”

Victor “our studies…”

“our studies were never forced”

Victor chapter one “I must…”

“I must not omit to record”

“the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny” - the events

C1: Victor “It is even possible, that the…”

“It is even possible, that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin”

C1 Victor “my dreams were therefore…”

“My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality”

C1 Victor and glory through..

“what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame”

lightning strike

page 24

“a stream of fire”

"dazzling light vanished”

“blasted tump”

domestic circle descriptions page 25

William “lively blue eyes” “dimpled cheeks”

“from which care and pain seemed for ever banished” (their domestic circle)

Victor’s mother on death

“I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death”

What does victor describe his grief/loss of mother as

“irreparable able, the void that presents itself to the soul”

“when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity”

“My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform”

C2 “I ardently desired…”

“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge”

M. Krempe and M. Waldman

“with a gruff voice and repulsive countenance” “did not prepossess me in favour of his doctrine”

How does Waldman describe philosophers that sticks with Victor

“They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers”

C2 Waldman on labours of men of genius

“The labours of men of genius, however erroneously direction, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind”

How does Victor react in C2 to his conversation with Waldman

“It decided my future destiny”

C3: Victor on science “continual food…”

“continual food for discovery and wonder”

C3: Victor “I saw…”

“I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life”

C3: Victor “I became myself…”

“I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

C3 Victor “I was like the Arabian…”

“I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light”

C3 Victor avoids culpability

“When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands”

C3, Victor “how dangerous…”

“how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge”

C3: Victor “like a hurricane…”

“like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

Victor “I dabbled”

“I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave, or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?” (who can conceive of the horrors)

C3V “then a resistless, and almost frantic…”

“then a resistless, and almost frantic impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit”

C4 “that I might infuse…”

“that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet”

C4 "the rain…”

“the rain pattered dismally against the panes”

Creature description

“dull yellow eye”

“catastrophe”

“dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.”

C4V “I had desired it…”

“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation”

What page does Elizabeth turn into his mother right after he makes the creature?

page 37

“in the bloom of health” killed her “they became livid with the hue of death” “I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel”

C4 Creature “one hand was…”

“one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me”

C4 Victor “It became a thing…”

“it become a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.”

Clerval quotes when he comes to get Victor

“nervous fever”

“voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge” Clerval says he has been allowed to

“Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval”

What does Elizabeth say in her letter about judges

“a judge, whose misfortune it was always to meddle with the dark side of human nature.”

What does Elizabeth say about Justine and William

“She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty”

“with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eye-lashes, and curling hair”

Victor Proustian memory “the sight…”

“the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms”

Victor “study had before..”

“Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures”

Victor “a selfish…”

“A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me”

What does Elizabeth say when she sees the body of William?

"O God! I have murdered my darling infant!”

Setting of Victor on return to Geneva

“I saw lightnings playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures\”

“thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head”

“illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire”

“so beautiful yet terrific”

Victor calls Jacob

“wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life”

what does Victor call Justine’s trial in chapter 7

“wretched mockery of justice, I suffered living torture”

“A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime” “would have been considered as the ravings of a madman”

“the judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than one guilty should escape”

Death: “they call this retribution. Hateful name!”

Victor on remorse

“the fangs of remorse tore my bosom, and would not forego their hold.”

“I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish”

“But I - I was a wretch”

what does Victor do in chapter 7 with the Justine trial

“I gnashed my teeth”

VOL 2 - when I thought of him “I gnashed my teeth”

How does Victor describe himself in Vol II start that is similar to the beginnings of the creature?

“I had begun life with benevolent intentions” “my heart overflowed with kindness”

Victor “I was tempted” post Justine trial

“I was tempted to plunge into that silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever.”

Victor “I, not indeed, but…”

I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer”

Mont Blanc…”

“Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificant Mont Blanc”

“These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation”

“It had then filled me with a sublime ecstacy that gave wings to the soul”

Creature introduction round 2

“the figure of a man” “superhuman speed”

“Begone, vile Insect!”

“Abhorred monster"!”

“Wretched devi!”

What does the Creature implore Victor to (before his narrative)

“Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind”

“if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends”

“Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous”

Creature “Life, although it…”

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it”

Creature “I ought to be…”

“I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel”

What page does the creature begin his demands

page 70

Creature “I was…”

“I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity”

Creature asserts narrative authority

“Hear my tale”

where does Victor seat himself to hear the tale

“seating myself by the fire”

Creature narrative “a strange…”

“A strange multiplicity of sensation seized me, and I saw, felt, heart, and smelt, at the same time”

“the light become more and more oppressive to me”

“I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch”

Creature describes his original speech

“uncouth and inarticulate sounds”

Creature “I thrust…”

“I thrust my hand into the embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain”

Creature “I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut… and….”

“and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the daemons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire”

“It was indeed a paradise, compared to the bleak forest”

Creature describes poverty & the causes of De Lacey unhappiness

“that evil in a very distressing degree”

Creature on language “this was indeed…”

“this was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it”

first words of the creature

“fire, milk, bread”

Creature terrified when I…

“When I viewed myself in a transparent pool”

“I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am”

What do the De Lacey family originally call the creature

“good spirit, wonderful”

Creature whilst learning language experiences hope

“the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipations of joy”

How does the creature describe the strange nature of knowledge

“It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock”

Creature Chapter 6 vol 2 “the injustice…”

“the injustice of his sentence was very flagrant”