Frankenstein Flashcards

Quote 1 (Q1) "I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel." | Antithesis (Adam vs. fallen angel); Biblical allusion / intertextual appropriation; Elliptical self-correction ('ought to be... but I am rather'); First-person self-mythologising

Quote 2 (Q1) "Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred." | Comparative syntax (Satan vs. I); Antithesis ('companions...admire and encourage' vs. 'solitary and abhorred'); Juxtaposed clauses / asyndeton; Hyperbolic isolation, superlative self-pity

Quote 3 (Q1 / Q2) "I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create." | Imperative mood ('you must create'); Repetition/parallelism ('same species... same defects'); Euphemistic diction ('defects'); Modal certainty replaces earlier pleading; Gothic double/companion convention repurposed as ideological demand

Quote 4 (Q1 / Q2) "Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded." | Adverb of totality ('everywhere... irrevocably'); Spatial/panoramic imagery vs. singular isolation; Passive construction ('am excluded') - object not agent; Pathos through absolute diction

Quote 5 (Q1 / Q2) "The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." | Juxtaposition (beauty/horror), abrupt tonal volta; Emotive triadic structure ('horror and disgust'); Somatic imagery ('filled my heart'); Symbolic collapse of 'the dream' - foreshadowing

Quote 6 (Q1 / Q2) "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath." | Anatomical/clinical diction; Synecdoche (body parts for dehumanised whole); Grotesque imagery - gothic convention; Understatement ('scarcely covered') heightens horror

Quote 7 (Q2) "Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father." | Kinetic verbs ('darted', 'tore'); Dramatic irony (creature's intent was benign); Hyperbole ('supernatural force'); Asyndeton mirrors suddenness

Quote 8 (Q1) "Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." | Aphoristic / gnomic statement; Superlative absolute ('nothing is so painful'); Abstraction over concrete imagery - universal application

Quote 9 (Q1) "Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?" | Rhetorical question; Antithesis/oxymoronic pairing ('powerful...magnificent' vs. 'vicious and base'); Triadic escalation then contrastive triad; Philosophical register (Enlightenment/Romantic debate)

Quote 10 (Q2) "It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils." | Pathetic fallacy ('dreary night'); Gothic temporal marker (night, November); Euphemistic diction ('accomplishment of my toils'); Delayed syntax - fronted temporal clause

Quote 11 (Q2) "A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity." | Gothic pathetic fallacy (lightning as revelation); Comparative/superlative excess ('more hideous than belongs to humanity'); Gothic sublime - dramatic visual disclosure; Abstract-to-concrete movement

Quote 12 (Q2) "I trembled, and my heart failed within me." | Somatic/physiological register; Short paratactic clauses mimic breathlessness; Gothic convention of bodily betrayal; Idiom of physical collapse

Quote 13 (Q1 / Q2) "All the hatred that you may feel for me is not equal to that with which I regard myself." | Comparative/hyperbolic syntax ('not equal to'); Second-person direct address; Mirrored structure inverts accusation onto self; Reflexive pronoun emphasis ('myself')