Frankenstein (Year 8)

QUOTES

"I thought I was making something better than a human!"...

..."Something so precious and beautiful that everyone would love it - and look at you. Look at what I've done." -Frankenstein P26

"Men, they see me, they hurt me - dogs-" ...

... "they shout, they throw stones. But I am good. I want to love them, not hurt, not kill." -Monster to Agathe P35

"You want me bad! All of you -" ...

... "everyone - you all want me bad!" -Monster to Felix and Agathe P36

"Evil? Evil - you want Evil? then I shall be evil!" ...

... "I shall be terror and hatred and revenge - revenge!" -Monster

"We should have understood him, Felix." ...

... "He was an outcast just like us." -Agathe to Felix P36

"I am exactly what you" ...

... "made me, Frankenstein" -Monster P39 (what is the cost of judging others)

"Frankenstein, has any man in history ever been more" ...

... "cruel than you have been to me?" -Monster

"You see what you made, Frankenstein?" ...

... "A creature better than yourself perhaps?" -Monster P42

"It's because when I see a living thing I revere it - I want to cherish it and love it." ...

... "When a human sees a living thing, his first impulse is to destroy it." -Monster P50

"That is the one occasion when I behaved like a human being." ...

... "As a result, it's the one thing I'm ashamed of" -Monster talking to Clerval about killing William P50

"Yes. Destroyer I shall be." ...

... "I shall destroy you, my creator" - Monster to Frankenstein P54

"They tell me that human beings have something called a soul that lives on after their bodies die"

... "I hope I have no soul" - Captain Walton reciting Monster's lines EPILOGUE