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Frankenstein Quotes
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- 1I have no friend - IsolationEmphasises Walton’s isolation, mirroring victors isolation later on. Theme of entrapment encourages fear in the reader as humans have a primitive fear of loneliness. They fear loneliness themselves.
- 2He was poor, her father would never consent the union - Class systemsShows the societal context in which males were considered protectors of the females and the men made their decisions for them. It shows how it was only considered moral to marry into ones social class.
- 3I ardently hope your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you as mine has been - Ambition/ Past - 'Intoxicating draught'Emphasises the cyclical nature of the mistakes of human beings and shows how the human condition is predisposed to fall. Links to paradise lost through the serpent, hints at the idea that Walton is being naive like eve in his desire for knowledge and he should learn from his mistakes.
- 4What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man? - AmbitionSuggests that people do not listen others advice as we are in a perpetual state of corruption, due to the fall of man. People have to figure things out for themselves as everyone believes they in some way are special will not end up the same way, which is the hamartia of humans and the tragedy of our condition.
This I think is added in the newer version, reflects her focus on fate and the inevitability of his fall instead of choice - 5He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl - Female weaknessOver emphasises, almost in a sarcastic tone, the dependence of women on men. Shows how men perceived themselves as being the protectors of women. As it’s from victors perspective it may be Mary demonstrating the way men perceive there place to be in regards to women and almost mocking this considering she was an avid reader of her mother’s work. Or maybe she is a product of society in which she unconsciously portrays the reality of the gender dynamic in society.
- 6With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being they had given lifeStark contrast between how victor treats the monster and how he was treated. Marxist- Shows how the upper classes get everything but don’t show the same treatment to the lower classes. The monster therefore be an analogy for the working class showing their neglect.
- 7Looked upon Elizabeth as mine - Female objectificationShows the objectification of women and how women became the property of women after marriage.
- 8I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge - AmbitionShows his ambition
- 9A new species would bless me as their creator - Ambition/ TransgressionShows how he rejects God and wants to elevate himself to the position of God. Like Eve who eats the apple to gain the knowledge of Gods in Paradise Lost.
- 10The darkness and storm increased ( after Williams death) - Pathetic Fallacy/ Light and darkShows nature reacting to human events and reflecting his internal state. Links to how the !earth trembled in her entrails’ after the fall. Also may reflect Shelley internal state after the death of her child.
Link to COO 'left her in total darkness' - 11My own spirit let loose from the grave - DoppelgängerRepresents the dark repressed aspects of Victors psyche consuming his conscious thought.
- 12I suffered living torture/ I was doomed to live - EntrapmentLink to ‘living dead’ in PL
Macbeth - 'Shall I live a man forbid' - 13She confessed her guilt - Passivity of womenJustine - Emphasises her passivity as she cannot defend herself and just submits to their will, dismissing this fear as a need to 'submit to will of heaven' and accept her fate.
- 14Felt the never dying worm alive in my bosom- TransformationImagery of corruption and metaphorical for his fallen state. Reflects serpent like imagery that suggests he is being metamorphosed into an embodiment of Satan/ sin.
- 15I bore a hell within me - also said by the monster and Satan in PL - DoppelgängerShows how the 3 characters are becoming embodiments of each other and almost inseparable. Theme of the doppelgänger. Represents how rage and anger is consuming them.
- 16The first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts - Innocence/AmbitionShows how the innocent are sacrificial victims for the powerful and over reaching figures. Marxist- the lower class are victims to the rise of the industrial revolution were the people at the top are taking advantage of the lower classes
- 17All sound of joy was torture to me - EntrapmentLink to ‘the more I see pleasure about me so much more I feel torment within me’ PL
Relates him to Satan and highlights his psychological degradation. - 18I left the boat to pursue it’s own course - Conflict of protagonistSuggesting he recognises his inevitable fall and is letting fate take control, thus emphasising his personal loss of control. May also represent his unconscious taking control and steering his behaviour.
- 19I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer Contrasts to ‘ I was guiltless’ - Protagonist conflictSuggests he is in a constant conflict with understanding his own behaviour. Denying his responsibility as a defence mechanism.
- 20Nor the beauty of earth, nor heaven, could redeem my soul from woe - HorrorThis instils fear in the reader a sit implicates that once you have sinned and become a woeful being, not even the power of God can help you. He now mirrors Satan’s despair as he rejects Gods power.
- 21One wandering thought pollutes the day ( Percy - Mutability) - GuiltShows how he is being internally eaten away by his guilt. Also relates Percy Shelley’s emotions to Victors.
- 22No distinct ideas occupied my mind, all was confusedShows how the monster was born as a tabula rasa - Locke. Also suggests he is in the pre-identification stage of Lacanian Psychoanalytic theory.
- 23I felt tormented by hunger and thirstWe see here how his personality is only his ID and he is only controlled by his Eros drive, he only has the pleasure principle. He is like a baby, and the reader feels sympathy.
- 24Why were these beings unhappy? They possessed every luxury. - InequalitiesShows how humans become unhappy due to feeling relatively inferior. Everyone feels they are worse off and don’t appreciate what they have which is why we inevitably fall as we can never be the best.
- 25I applied my whole mind to the endeavour ( monster) - Doppelgänger ambitionMirrors the language and ambition of Victor. Doppelgänger
- 26I was terrified when I viewed myself in the transparent poolRepresents the stage when a baby looks in a mirror and identifies with themselves. Thus at this stage he develops his ego, allowing for his psychological degradation to occur. Contrasts to Eve in PL and Narcissus who show 'vain desire' which is portrayed as self desturctive'
- 27Was I a monster?We become what society tells us we are. Shows how we base our self perception on others perception of us and this is what allows for others to manipulate our own happiness. ‘We are born free but we are everywhere in chains’ we are trapped as we cannot truly be who we want to be as this depends on others perceptions of us. This means he has to move from innocence to corruption in order to cope.
- 28His religion and wealth had been the cause of his condemnation - Injustice/Inequalities Justine - 'Confusion' is used as 'proof of her guilt'Shows the societal context which was highly discriminatory thus outlying the corrupt nature of law at the time. It also shows how society favoured the rich upper classes over the lower classes. Contrast to Falkland in Caleb Williams who is acquitted due to status.
- 29I considered Satan a fitter emblem of my condition. I aught to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.Links to Paradise Lost, remember he didn’t know Genesis he only knew Paradise Lost. He perceives himself as being rejected by God and now cannot attain pleasure. He says it’s because when he ‘sees bliss’ he feels ‘envy’. Although he feels worse off as he is ‘solitary’.
Victor represents God and thus the neglect of God to his people, he should have protected us from evil. Reminds us that Satan was once an angel but he is now evil and he is not sympathized with, so why do we sympathies with the monster. - 30I declared everlasting war against the species - monster - RevengeShows why humans become involved in war. Highlights the corrupt nature of our condition. Shows how others suffer as the result of ones actions.
- 31He had promised to follow me wherever I might go - TerrorEvokes fear as you never know what’s behind you. It shows the reader that they are so ignorant, they only know what’s in their eyesight and what they they think is everywhere else due to past experience. This is sublime. Links to the ancient mariner ‘a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread’. Also link to return of the repressed, he cannot escape the horrors of his past.
- 32My enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. - The past/ EntrapmentShows how the past comes back to haunt you which is a key aspect of the gothic.
- 33How strange is that clinging love we have for life even in the excess of miseryExternal voice of Shelley questioning why we value life so highly when their is not inherent meaning to it. This suggests an atheist perspective, although even a religious perspective may say why fear death when you go to heaven. This may answer victors question maybe he is scared of hell. Link to Hamlet who says we 'the dread of something after death, dost make us rather bear those ills we have, than fly to others we know not of'
Everyone has an unconscious fear of the afterlife, even skeptics and atheists. - 34The past appeared to me in the light of a fearful dreamShows how he is being haunted by his past and his unconscious fears are surfacing through his dreams. ‘My dreams presented a thousand objects that scared me’
- 35The apple was already eaten - TransgressionShows the inevitability of Victors tragic fall. There is no going back as ‘the deed is done’ and you can’t unlearn knowledge.
- 36I call on you spirits of the dead to aid me in my work - SupernaturalLink to Lady Macbeth ‘come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me now’. Asking for a ‘greater power’ to rule.
Evil is a supernatural entity. - 37Let him feel the despair that now torments me - RevengeLink to ‘to make others such as I’
- 38I had rather die than return shamefully - StatusShows how people will do anything to elevate themselves higher in the social hierarchy. Echoes the idea that Victor is trying to gain status, to do something that no other human has ever done, a desire to be special and godlike.
- 39Seek happiness, avoid ambition - AmbitionHe attributes his fall to ambition, although it is actually his prejudice that led him to fall.
- 40Am I thought to be the only criminal when all human kind sinned against me?Shows how people fail to see flaws within them self. Almost suggesting that people collectively project prejudices as defence of their own people to heighten themselves. We are all criminals as we make criminals and the blame lies on society as a whole.
- 41The tortures of the accused did not equal mineShows Victors egotistic nature. Both try and portray themselves as the victim.
- 42Frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the creator of the world- TerrorShelley Intro
- 43My excessive and romantic attachment to my fatherMary Shelleys letters - Shows her electra complex - echoes the incestuous relationship of Victor and Elizabeth
- 44I would dream that my baby came back to life again, that we rubbed it before the fire and it livedShelley on the death of her child
- 45He appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion - Compare to Give me that man/ That is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him/ In my heart’s core (Hamlet)Often uses salve to describe himself. People are not in control of their emotions.
- 46They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places. - Sublime/ FemalesFeminising nature - Sublime as it evokes fear in women as males think women are something that can be controlled like nature.
- 47Destiny was too potentOften refers to his death as his inevitable fate after the monster is created
- 48‘Faith gives solemnity to his reveries’ - reason vs irrationalityImportance of superstition and religion.
- 49Vivid flashes of lightning illuminated my eyes - Light and darkMirrors how he has gained forbidden knowledge like Adam and Eve - 'blaze insufferably bright', 'veil that had shadowed them from knowing ill had gone'
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- AS level English Literature FlashCards sobre Frankenstein Quotes , criado por Nicole McNally em 20-12-2017.
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