Frankenstein Quotes

• Workshop of filthy creation


  • Unholy
  • Impure
  • Man made
  • Unnatural
  • God-like
  • Blasphemous
  • Meddling with nature/death
  • Religious imagery
  • Human creation is repulsive
  • Romanticism of not to meddle with nature
• Lifeless clay


  • Creation
  • God-like
  • Constructing
  • Meddling with the dead
  • Impure
• "The beauty of the dream had vanished; and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
• No disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings 


  Walton (Letter 1), foreshadow
• During every hour of my infant life, I received a lesson of patience, of charity and of self-control /inexhaustible stores of affection/ no human being could’ve passed a happier childhood


  Childhood, contrast to the Monster's experience
• Albertus Magnus and Cornelius Agrippa
• 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, foreshadowing, regret, remorse, playing God
• The moon gazed on my midnight labours while with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness


  Victor
• I dangled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay


  Victor
• It was the most beautiful season, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature


  Victor whilst creating the creature
• His shrivelled complexion and straight black lips


  Victor describing the appearance of his newly made creature
• Revenge is the devouring and only passion of my soul


  After monster kills Elizabeth
• His soul is as hellish as his form full of treachery, and fiend like malice


  Victor about creature to Walton to kill him