Frankenstein Practice Quote Recognition

"Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me--let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!"

Victor to Robert Walton
What is the "intoxicating draught"? (ambition/hubris)

"Before I come on board your vessel, will you have the kindness to inform me wither you are bound?"

Victor to Robert Walton

"I have described myself as always having been imbued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature"

Victor

"I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter"

Victor

"None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder"

Victor

"I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime"

Victor

"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I I rushed out of the room, continued a long time traversing my bed chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep."

Victor

"...and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity."

Victor

"My dear Frankenstein, are we always to be unhappy? My dear friend, what has happened?"

Henry Clerval to Victor

"William, dear angel! This is thy funeral, this thy dirge!"

Victor

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."

Creature to Victor

"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct. A strange, multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time."

Creature

"How strange, I thought, that the same cause could produce such opposite effects."

Creature

"I shall relate events, that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am"

Creature

"I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness"

Creature

"I swear by the sun, and by the blue sky of Heaven and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again"

Creature

"I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness"

Victor

"The possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches"

Creature

"What was I?"

Creature

"I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked of the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded."

Creature

"I swear...to pursue the daemon...until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict."

Victor to Graves of William, Elizabeth, and his father

"I am satisfied: miserable wretch! You have determined to live, and I am satisfied."

Creature to Victor

"My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy."

Victor to Robert Walton

"Swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape; that you will seek him, and satisfy my vengeance in his death."

Victor to Robert Walton

"They insisted...that I should engage with a solemn promise"

Robert Walton to Margaret

they = ship’s crew

"The die is cast; I have consented to return"

Robert Walton to Margaret

"You throw a torch into a pile of buildings; and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall"

Robert Walton to Creature

"I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames"

Creature to Robert Walton