Karteikarten
VF- key quotes within chapters
Karten in diesem Stapel (12)
- 1"I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Quote from letter one
Shows Walton's excitement to discover new things - he feels as though he has a purpose - 2"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore."Quote from letter two
Reinforces Walton's thirst to find out new things - 3"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"Quote from letter three
Walton isn't going to give up on his journey - 4“..was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge” “...the world was to me a secret which I desired to divine”Quotes from chapter two
S.F of religion- VF thinks of himself as godlike and as a creator - 5"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."Quote from chapter three
Similarly too Walton, VF wants to find out things that no one else has before - 6"Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries."Chapter four
VF is intrigued and interested in the whole idea of creating life/ science in general - 7"I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. “Chapter five
Instantly shows readers VF's instant disgust at what he worked so hard for - 8"I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers…”Chapter eleven
Shows readers how isolated the creature is - 9“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”Chapter fifteen
Draws sympathy towards creature and shows an insight into his feelings of emptiness/ victim - 10"I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy! “Chapter seventeen
Tries to persuade VF to do something for him/ like a guilt trip - 11"Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live.”Chapter twenty-one
Shows readers how VF and his father stick together as they only have each other and Elizabeth left - 12"Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein!...Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine; for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them for ever.”Walton: in continuation
Shows how the creature has nothing left - VF was his only hope and without him he realises that he should go and let himself die
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- A level English Karteikarten am VF- key quotes within chapters, erstellt von Ashleigh Johnson am 16/04/2018.
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