New Frankenstein

• “deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge” Page 29
• “curiosity, earnest research to learn... earliest sensations I can remember” Victor Page 30 (links to the creature's first experiences)
• “Clerval occupied himself... with the moral relations of things... the virtues of heroes” page 31
• (pursuit of power through science)“it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all hopes and joys”
• “Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination” Page 33
• “I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge” Page 32
• “Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery;... render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!" Page 33
• “The last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm... it was a strong effort of the spirit of good; but it was ineffectual. Destiny was too potent” Page 34
• “My solitary apartment”  page 36
• "The ancient teachers of this science promised impossibilities and performed nothing... They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places”  Page 38
• “A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me” Page 43
• "if the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections... then that study is certainly unlawful" Page 44
• "whence... did the principle of life proceed?" Page 41
• "forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses" page 41
• "I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery" page 42
• "No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs" page 43
• "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation" page 43
• "in a solitary chamber, or rather, a cell" page 43
• "I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime" Page 45
• "the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love" page 103
• "it is that prejudice which I wish to overcome" page 103
• "From your lips first have I heard the voice of kindness directed towards me" page 104
• “One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay” Letter 4
• “Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home” Chapter 2
• “I beheld a stream of fire” - “dazzling light” - “blasted stump” - “I never held anything so utterly destroyed” chapter 2
• VERISIMILITUDE – realism, Shelley is using real world philosophers and location to create something frighteningly realistic 
• “Promised miracles but performed nothing” Chapter 3
• “I was oppressed... I became nervous... I shunned my fellow-creatures... I grew alarmed” Chapter 4
• “I might infuse a spark of being” Newgate Prison Experiment chapter 5
• “The first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death” Chapter 5
• “by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters” Chapter 5
• “the mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact” Chapter 7
• “My own spirit let loose from the grave” Chapter 7
• “I paused when I reflected on the story that I had to tell... I resolved to remain silent” Chapter 7
• “During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice" Chapter 8
• “But when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends” Chapter 8
• “All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than that one guilty should escape” Chapter 8
• “In these last moments I feel the sincerest gratitude towards those who think of me with kindness” Chapter 8
• “I bore a hell within me that nothing could extinguish” Chapter 8 (Victor relating to the creature again)
• “I see sometimes revenge in your countenance, dear Victor banish these dark passions” Chapter 9