Frankenstein Key Quotes

Frankenstein Key Quotes

1. Fate

   • "The words of fate enounced to destroy me"
   • "I apperead rather like one doomed to slavery to toil in mines"
   • "Those are as fixed as my fate" (Said by Walton)
   • "My fate is nearly fufiled" (Said by Victor)
   • "Natural philosophy is the genius that regulated my fate"

2. Identity

   • "If i cannot inspire love, i will cause fear"
   • "Beware; for i am fearless, and therefore powerful"
   • "I ought to be thy Adam, but i am rather the fallen angel"

3. Ambiton and Guilt

   • "Learn from me[...] how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge"
   • "a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me foward"
   • "Heart-siclening despair"
   • "O God1 I have murdered my darling Elizabeth"
   • "I beheld the corruption of death"
     • Link to the story of creation- trying to be God by creating life
   • "Pour a torrent of light into our dark world"
   • "Seek hapiness in tranquility and avoid ambition"
   • "bestowing animation upon lifeless matter"
     • "I kept my workshop of filthy creation"
   • "my limbs now tremble"
   • ""full of breathless horror and disgust"
     • "miserable monster"

4. Isolation

   • "Satan had his companions [...] but i am solitary and abhorred"
     • Link to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' - recognises the injsutice done to him even though Satan is evil he did not have to live in Isolation whereas the creature does
   • "I shunned my fellow creatures as if i had been guilty of a crime."
   • "No one can conceive the anguish i suffered during the remainder of the night"

5. The Creature

   • "i was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend"
   • "Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turn from me in disgust"
   • "The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil"
   • "I determined to seek that justice which i vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form."
   • "Wretched Outcast"