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Frankenstein Key Quotes (Victor Frankenstein ("Unhappy man! Do you…
Frankenstein Key Quotes
Mary Shelley
"One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror [...] to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper"
Robert Walton
"I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man"
"you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind to the last generation, by discovering a passage [...] to those countries"
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"I am practically industrious [...] but besides this, there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous [...] which hurries me out of the common pathways of men"
"But success shall crown all my endeavours. Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas; the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph"
"I have found a mon who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to possess him as the brother of my heart."
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race"
Victor Frankenstein
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"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you as mine has been"
"She appeared of different stock [...] her hair was the brightest loving gold [...] and seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head [...] as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features"
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"A new species would bless me as it's creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father should claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs"
"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate lifeless clay?"
"I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade, than an artist occupied by his favourite employment"
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"I saw by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement window"
"The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew."
"She was there lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features covered by her hair"
"All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell"
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The Creature
"... you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?"
"Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, who thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, form which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
"Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me. [...] But hear me. The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned."
"You accuse me of murder. Ans yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature."
"Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again'
"I looked upon them as superior beings, who would be the arbiters of my future destiny"
"From your lips first have I heard the voices of kindness directed towards me: I shall be forever grateful; and your present humanity assures me of success with those friends whom I am on the point of meeting"
"My heart was framed to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure me the violence of change, without torture such as you cannot imagine"
"I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil"