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English Literature: Frankenstein
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- 1FrankensteinKey Quotes
- 2Sacrifice"Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats..."
-Victor Frankenstein
- 3SacrificeShall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn.
-The Monster - 4SacrificeMan! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.
-The Monster - 5Sacrifice"was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me."
-Victor Frankenstein - 6Sacrifice"How gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise."
- 7Life, Consciousness and Existence"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race."
-Victor Frankenstein
- 8Life, Consciousness and Existence"The innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me."
-Victor Frankenstein - 9Life, Consciousness and ExistenceThe modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt,
-Victor Frankenstein - 10Life, Consciousness and Existence"Microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding-places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe."
-Victor - 11Science"My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge."
-Victor
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- GCSE English Literature Flashcards on English Literature: Frankenstein , created by Mohamed Sakho on 23/01/2018.
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