Important Quotes Frankenstein

Important quotes from Frankenstein an enterprise which you pitch regarded with such evil forebodings. RW, P. 7 I shall for certain find no friend on the wide ocean, RW, P. 11 We accordingly brought him back to the deck, and restored him to life RW on VF, P. 14 playful as a summer insect lively as a chick the most fragile creature VF on E, P. 20 , the first misfortune of my life occurred an o custody, as it were, of my future tense misery VF, P. 25 Thus ended a twenty-four hourstime memorable to me it decided my future hatful VF on inevitable fate, P. 30 y father had taken the greatest precautions that my idea should be impress with no supernatural horrors. VF on genuinely having a caring father, also, Gothicism, P. 31 , I became my self capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter VF, P. 32 a dreary night with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony VF and the day of creation, his mental state and pathetic fallacy, P. 35 my candle was nearly burnt out VF, a illustration for his sanity, P. 35 he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks VF on the deuce as a newborn baby, P. 6 one hand was stretched out VF on the monster as Michelangelos Creation of pass, P. 36 but I escaped, and rushed down stairs VF abandons his baby, his duty, P. 36 Oh, stay fresh me save me VF as a damsel in distress, HC is the saviour, save- beginn, P. 39 the season contributed greatly to my convalescence VF as a Romantic, nature restores health P. 39 During the whole of this wretched mockery of just frappe, I suffered living torture. VF, the blood line of injustice brought on simply by himself, P. 54 Could the daemon lso in his hellish sport take a crap betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy. VF. It was VF who betrayed the innocent, so surely indeed he is the daemon? P. 56 Justine died she rested and I was alive. VF is death better than life at this point? P. 61 deep, dark, death- give cargon solit ude VF, P. 61 I had been the informant of unalterable evils VF and his inevitable fate, his realised sense of guilt and fault, P. 62 The rain depressed me VF, pure and wide pathetic fallacy, P. 65 the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier t had then filled me with a sublime raptus VF on the sublime nature of his setting, P. 66 LINK Infinity has a tendency to fill the mind with that sort of delightful horror Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful the vast river of ice their icy and gleam peaks VF, a continuation of the sublime, and a reference to Rime, P. 67 LINK The ice was here, the ice was there / The ice was all roughly Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner All men hate the wretched M, proving himself antithetic to humans, P. 7 you, my creator M, master/slave distinction, father/son distinction, self-awareness, P. 68 I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel M is comparing himself to the devil. Whereas he should have be en a perfect being, he became an archetypal fallen angel, like Lucifer for example, P. 68 LINK Awake, stand or be for ever falln. John Milton, Paradise Lost thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion. M alone needed his creator, his father, to care for him. He was of a good nature, until rejection. P. 8 my soul glowed with love and humanity M, until he realised he was not human, P. 68 Oh, praise the eternal justice of man M. This brilliantly humorous the monster has learnt sarcasm, and is using it to condemn VF for wanting to murder him, despite VF accusing the monster of murder. In doing so, the monster mocks the injustice of Justines trial, as well as Williams death, P. 69 Cursed be the day in which you first saw light VF. Unlike convention, the symbolism of light here is negative, P. 69 I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a shout out of pain. M has no parent, he learns through trial and error, P. 71 miserable, fro m the inclemency of the season, and still more from the brutality of man. M, as an unnatural being, has at this point neither nature nor mankind. He is a reject, P. 73 It was hence a paradise, compared to the bleak forest, my former residence M, his hovel is a paradise from which he is soon banished, after he gives in to curiosity and tries the forbidden fruit talking to humankind, P. 75 when I found that in doing this I seeed pain on the cottagers, I abstained M learns guilt, is of a good nature, P. 7 I went into the woods, and serene my own food and fuel for the cottage. M becomes a parent to the De Lacy family, and furthermore becomes a peasant, P. 79 The lady was dressed in a dark suit, and covered with a thick black bedim M describes Safie as dressing in a Gothic manner, P. 80 her eyes were dark, but palliate M, provides alternate view to idea of black symbolising unfairness or Gothicism, P. 81 And what was I? M has no class, has no role in society, P. 83 Of what a strange nature is k directledge M realises that maybe all that he has learnt is not for the better, P. 83 The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant M again experiences injustice, grows evermore corrupt, P. 85 I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books M acquires life-changing books, P. 89 the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures M, familiar? M vs. VF, P. 90 Like Adam, I was created patently united by no link to any other being in existence, but he had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous I was wretched, befuddled and alone. M links himself to Adam, realises he is not a perfect creature, or a human. He ack at presentledges his alienation, his loneliness, P. 90 LINK Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons John Milton, Paradise Lost Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition M is the fallen angel, P. 90 the hearts of men are full of brotherly love and charity De Lacy, but maybe M isnt a human brother, he is different, P. 93 I am blind, and cannot judge of your countenance, but there is something in your oral communication which persuades me that you are sincere. De Lacy.M speaks eloquently, is compassionate (at this point) and cares for the De Lacy family, but on the outside is a monster, P. 94 No from that trice I declared everlasting war against the species M is rejected by De Lacy family, P. 95 This was then the reward of my benevolence M saves a woman from drowning, and is shot in doing so. Again, it is his appearance, not his intention, that is seen by mankind, P. 99 You, my creator, would tear me to pieces M, but actually, VF tears the female M to pieces, P. 102 Oh my creator, make me happy M, this is the simplest demand to his father/creator, P. 02 I do not destroy the lamb and the kid, to glut my appetite acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment M eco-criticism? P. 103 the sun will shine on us as on man, and will ripen our food. M. two Romantic (nature supplying food) and Marxist (all men are equal)? P. 103 with this deadly weight yet hanging around my neck VF acknowledges his guilt, but it still exists. Also, has he replaced religion with his actions, and replaced God with himself? P. 108 LINK Instead of the cross, the Albatross / almost my neck was hung. Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner. But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self VF. Could it be that Clerval is the innocent, ambitious and excitable VF, and the monster is the corrupt and miserable VF? P. 113 , the sight of what is beautiful in nature could always interest my heart. VF was (he is recollecting his childhood, here) a Romantic. Now, he has gone against nature and created something unnatural, P. 114 Had I a right to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? VF suddenly gains a conscience. Was M simply a test-run?He has learnt his lesson, and he shall now tear up the female M, P. 119 Ha ve my murderous machinations deprives you also, my dearest Henry, of life? VF, I think we now know who the murderer is, P. 127 The peasants were shut up in their hovels VF, so was M a peasant? P. 148 You have read this strange and terrific story do you not feel your blood congealed with horror, like that which even now curdles mine? RW so was the story Gothic? P. 151 LINK one to make the endorser dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. Mary Shelley, on what Frankenstein was intended to be. in his murder my crimes are consummated M, upon seeing VF dead, believes justice has been done. He who abandoned him has suffered. P. 158 I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion M did actually develop fully, though. He was, however, an aborted experiment, P. 160 He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance. RW, not only is M lost in darkness, but so is the reader. What happens next? Does M really stay by his word? What comes of RW? P. 161