Frankenstein Quotes

Frankenstein Quotes

1. Monster: "I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel"

   • Milton's Paradise Lost. The point behind the creatures distinction is that Adam fell by knowingly commiting a sin, whereras Satan, in contrast, was intented to fall from heaven as an intrintic part of the conception of God's new creation. The creature see's himself as Satan.

2. 'solitary cell' 'isolated' vault'

   • Vault : where you keep something valuable, he values life.
     • Solitary cell: Single, alone, associated with prison so he was aware what he was doing was wrong, lack of freedom and choice
     • Secrecy - he is hiding his true purpose from the world of wanting to be a God like figure.

3. "My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement"

   • Creating his creation sucks the life out of him, he gives his blood to the monster and becomes pale.
     • Confinement can be associated with an ill person, the condition of being in childbirth.

4. "I called myself the the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval".

   • "William, Justine, and Henry - they all died by my hands".

5. "The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust and filled my heart"

   • Victor is filled with intense revulsion

6. "Learn from me...how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow"

   • Victor implores Walton not to follow his example, he warns him. Shelly seems to argue ignorance is bliss.Bliss - reach a state of perfect happiness, oblivious of everything else.

7. "I was unseen and unknown" "Where were my friends and relations?" "I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property."

8. "The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit."

   • Obsession, dedicated.