Frankenstein QUOTES

Nature vs. Nurture: poor, helpless, miserable

"I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but I felt pain, and I could not find relief."

Creation vs. Responsibility: Adam

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

Isolation vs. Alienation: malicious

"I am malicious because I am miserable”

Science vs. the Natural Order: Scientific Curiousity

"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine; curiosity, earnest research, and gratitude drew me to your country."

Nature vs. Nurture: Creature connect to nature

"I learned to discern the trees and the flowers… I could observe and meditate on their actions and the moral relations they bore to my existence."

Isolation vs. Alienation: alone

"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me”

Science vs. the Natural Order: 2 years

"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inert body”

Nature vs. Nurture and Isolation: Victor obsessed with a desire for knowledge

"I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with a desire of knowledge.”

Creation vs. Responsibility and Science vs. the Natural Order: Creatyre desires for a mate

"But now that I am free, I will not be your slave; create a companion for me, and I will go to the wilds of South America, and there I will be beyond the reach of man."

Nature verse Nurture: good then bad

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”

Science vs Natural Order, Creation vs Responsibility: danger of knowledge

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.”

Creation vs Responsibility Science vs Natural Order: New species

“A new species would bless me as its creator and source.”

Science vs Natural Order Creation vs Responsibility: Breaking natural bounds

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through.”

Science vs Natural Order Isolation vs Alienation: Secret and divine

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

Science vs Natural Order Isolation vs Alienation Nature vs Nurture: Seasons pass

“Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves.”

Nature vs Nurture Creation vs Responsibility Isolation vs Alienation: infant days and smiles

“No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses.”

Isolation vs Alienation: friendless robert walton

“I have no friend, Margaret.”

Isolation vs Alienation Nature vs Nurture: Stars

“The cold stars shone in mockery.”

Creation vs Responsibility Science vs Natural Order: too much ambition

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

Creation vs Responsibility Isolation vs Alienation: horror, bolted

“Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room.”

Creation vs Responsibility Science vs Natural Order: Creature in power

“You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!”

Nature vs Nurture Isolation vs Alienation: good and evil

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?”

Isolation vs Alienation Nature vs Nurture Science vs Natural Order: Creature discovers

“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.”

Nature vs Nurture Isolation vs Alienation Creation vs Responsibility: Creature becomes bad

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”