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• "A new light seemed to


  dawn upon my mind" - Frankenstein
• "I considered Satan


  as the fitter emblem of my condition" - The Monster
• "My father yielded at length


  to my desire to avoid society" - Frankenstein
• "the strange system of


  human society was explained to me" - The Monster
• "I looked upon


  Elizabeth as mine" - Frankenstein
• "The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-


  dedicated lamp in our peaceful home" - Frankenstein
• "I began the


  creation of a human being" - Frankenstein
• "A new species would bless me as its creator and source...


  would owe their being to me" - Frankenstein
• "Yet you, my creator,


  detest and spurn me" - The Monster
• "They penetrate into the recesses of nature


  and show how she works in her hiding-places" - Frankenstein
• "He had partially unveiled the face of Nature,


  but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery" - Frankenstein
• "flash of lightning illuminated the object and discovered its shape plainly to me...


  the filthy demon to whom I had given life" - Frankenstein
• "acquired new and almost unlimited powers...


  command the thunders of Heaven" - Frankenstein
• "God knows how


  entirely I am innocent" - Justine
• "I ought to be thy Adam,;


  but I am rather the fallen angel" - The Monster
• "During the whole of this wretched mockery


  of justice I suffered living torture" - Frankenstein
• “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
• “Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity, but am I not alone? Miserably alone?”
• ‘ Of what a strange nature is knowledge? It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.’
• ‘ Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan has his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.
• ‘But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows, nor shared my thoughts; I was alone.’
• I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I feel then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.’
• ‘ His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend like malice. Hear him not; call the names of William, Justine, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near, and direct the steel aright.’
• ‘He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance.’
• ‘Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human-kind sinned against me?’
• ‘I was the slave, not the master.’
• • ‘Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in eternal hell.’ 
• ‘A solitary cell had been my habitation.’
• ‘I am the cause of this – I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry - they all died by my hands.’
• “But the apple was already eaten, and the angel’s arm bared to drive me from all hope.'
• ‘SOON THE BOLT WILL FALL WHICH MUST RAVISH YOU FROM YOUR HAPPINESS FOREVER.’
• ‘I abhorred society’
• ‘I was the slave of my creature.’
• ‘I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this unsupportable misery.’
• ‘I am an unfortunate and deserted creature; I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.’
• ‘But where was mine? [where was his creator] He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart, I cursed him.’