Frankenstein Quotes

• "Like a hurricane... I will pour a torrent of light into our dark world"


  What Victor says he will do to our world

  
• "I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation."


  What Victor says he will investigate and be

  
• "I beheld the wretch- the miserable monster...the vile insect."

  what victor calls the monster

  
• "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge"

  What Victor says about a man's life and knowledge
• "sad trash"


  What Victor's dad calls the books Victor studies

  
• "I ought to be thy Adam; rather I am they fallen angel"


  What the monsters says he 'ought' to be

  
• "Beware for I am fearless and therefore powerful"


  What the monster warns Victor that makes him powerful

  
• "Accursed creator...Satan had his companions, but I am solitary and abhorred"


  How the monster says he is different to the devil

  
• "I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense, I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound."


  What the monster says happened to him when he saved the girl

  
• "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles"


  What Victor says about the monster's skin

  
• "a promised gift"/"a pretty present"


  What Victor calls Elizabeth when he is given her

  
• "celestial"


  What Victor says about Elizabeth's features

  
• "saintly soul...shone like a shrine dedicated lamp"


  What Victor says about Elizabeth's soul

  
• "success shall crown my endeavours"

  What Walton says about his aims and their outcome

  
• "A mind as cultivated as mine"


  What Walton looks for in a friend

  
• "will not be a serpent to you like mine"


  What Victor says about his dreams at the end

  
• "the most grateful little creature in the world"


  How Justine is described to us

  
• "my health and spirit had been restored...from the air"


  What the air does for Victor to help him

  
• "I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love I will cause fear"


  What the monster threatens

  
• "this catastrophe...I escaped, and rushed down stairs"


  What Victor calls the monster and does in response

  
• "I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation--deep, dark, deathlike solitude."


  What Victor does after making the monster and letting Justine hang

  
• "I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers...but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool!"


  How the monster views the cottagers and himself

  
• "I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph."


  How the monster feels after killing William

  
• "I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope...but I refrained."


  What the monster says he could do to Felix but does not

  
• "I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal"


  How Victor says he will care for Elizabeth

  
• "I never beheld her so enchanting as at this time, when she was continually endeavouring to contribute to the happiness of others"

  When Victor says Elizabeth is most appealing

  
• "do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?"


  What Walton says he deserves

  
• "I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen"


  Where Walton says he will not find friends

  
• "Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!"

  What Justine advises Elizabeth to do

  
• "A picture of my mother ... painted at my father's desire [showing her] in an agony of despair"

  What Victor's father has of his mother