Frankenstein Part 2

chains and darkness

Chains and darkness were the only objects that pressed upon me."

Henry darling

Clerval" "Beloved friend

father arrives

Greater pleasure than the arrival of my father

putting humanity before himself

Had I the right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations

V believes in dreams

He believes that when in dreams he holds conversations with his friends

unexpected death of h

o "Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me, and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death

justice to creature and other

o "The justice due both to him and my fellow-creatures."

food

o "[The food] was set there by the spirits

ice split

o "[The ice] split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. Danger and fear.

e's scream

shrill and dreadful scream

contrast between h and v in regards to setting

surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks.

looking forward to end

I looked forward to its completion with a tremulous and eager hope

pause

I must pause here

let monster go

I must...let the monster depart

reason and revenge

"As I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge

vengeance feared

"I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend

justified in wanting death

"I feel myself justified in desiring the death of any adversary."

distance from loved one

"I must absent myself from all I loved

tries to ignore feelings about wedding and creature

"I shut up, as well as I could, in my heart the anxiety that preyed there."

misunderstanding- fear of attack on person

"I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me."

V thinks revenge from heaven

"Mine is assigned by heaven

last moments of happiness

"These were the last moments of my life which I enjoyed the feelings of happiness" and "I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me forever."

fallen angel

"The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil." Double. Views himself worse than the devil "yet even that enemy of God and man had friends."

cursed by devil

"I was cursed by some devil and carried about with me my eternal hell

happiness

"certain and tangible happiness."

visits from all

"congratulatory visits received and all wore smiling expressions" and "spend the first days of happiness beside the beautiful lake."

destiny to kill creature

"destiny"- "I must pursue and destroy the being to whom I gave existence.

hopes extinguished when creature close

But now, when I appeared almost within the grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished

female companion

A female companion who will accompany you in your exile

reflection on deed

A train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing

smiled on embarkation

All smiled on our nuptial embarkation

creature can travel where man can't

An animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude

wandering- to end in death

And now my wandering began, which are to cease but with my life

marriage getting closer

As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer"

lake

Beautiful lake"

ravish and remove happiness

Beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever."

blight

Blight had come over my existence

V corrected story

Corrected and augmented them

sea compared to lake

Desolate and appalling landscape" and "its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roaring's of the giant ocean."

blackness

Devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.

horror concealing blood

Do you not feel your blood congeal with horror like that which even now curdles mine?"

e mute

Elizabeth acquiesced...a thousand emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful and silent farewell

enfranchised slavery

Enfranchised from my miserable slavery...claim Elizabeth and forget my past in my union with her

still has passion

Even now I cannot recollect without passion...I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects...how I am sunk

uncontrolled passion

Every feature and gesture seemed instigated by the wildest rage of some uncontrollable passion

fear of creature

Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor

fine eyes- W gay

Fine and lovely eyes

orkney

Fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys

shake of chains

For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit...sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self."

V tries to encourage w and co

He endeavors to fill me with hope...even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence...while they hear his voice they believe these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills which will vanish.

fled with speed

He fled with more than mortal speed

Knows worth and fall

He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall

final sentence

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance

E more than

His Elizabeth...more than daughter

sentence

His sentence was pronounced

soul hellish as form

His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiendlike malice

contrast

How great was the contrast between us

mutable are feelings

How mutable are our feelings and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery

blasted tree

I am a blasted tree

mal cause mis

I am malicious because I am miserable

creature wants him to live

I am satisfied: miserable wretch! You have determined to live, and I am satisfied

doesn't want w to fulfil task

I asked you to undertake my unfinished work" carrying on with quest but "I cannot ask you to renounce your country and friends to fulfill this task."

dungeon and madness

I awoke and found myself in a dungeon...was then released from my prison. For they had called me mad...a solitary cell had been my habitation

believed destined for enterprise

I believed myself destined for some great enterprise

calls on spirits to help

I call on you spirits of the dead; and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in this work

wants revenge on cursed head

I desired and I ardently prayed that I might...wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head."

devoted to destruction

I devote myself, either in life or death, to his destruction

senseless

I feel senseless to the ground

ban

I felt as if I were placed under a ban

hell surrounds

I felt as if all hell surrounded me

henry and Victor are in love

I had rather be with you" he said..."Hasten then my dear friend to return that I may again feel myself somewhat at home

lost hopes of glory

I have lost my hopes of utility and glory

materials needed to make creature

I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head

dreams seen as reality

I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come, and that I should then enjoy reality

cleaning equipment

I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants...put them in a basket, with a great quantity of stones...determining to throw them into the sea that very night; and in the meantime I sat upon the beach...cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus

moon rising

I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea

barrier

I saw an insurmountable barrier placed between me and my fellow men

sees demon

I saw, by the light of the moon, the demon at the casement.

ascend funeral

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly

ascend funeral

I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames."

wedding night promise

I shall be with you on your wedding night."

swearing on spirits

I swear...by thee, o night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the demon...until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict

solitude

I took refuge in the most perfect solitude

isle like a ghost

I walked about the isle like a restless specter separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation

answered by laughter

I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh

eternal hell

I was cursed by some devil and carried about with me my eternal hell

helpless

I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness

maddening rage

I was possessed by a maddening rage

slave

I was the slave of my creature.

haunted wretch

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse."

V selfish with E

If you knew what I have suffered and what I may yet endure, you would endeavor to let me taste the quiet and freedom from despair

clerval

In Clerval I saw the image of my former self."

death of father

In a few days he [father] died in my arms

thirst

Insatiable thirst for vengeance

iron/flesh

Iron had eaten into my flesh

letters-credibility

Letters of Felix and Safie

W thinks of crew

Lives of all these man are endangered through me. If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause

man ignorant

Man...how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom."

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Midnight

abject slavery

Mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries

misled

Misled by passion

father ignorant

My father was in the meantime overjoyed

wild appearance

My haggard and wild appearance

revenge only passion

My revenge...while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul."

excess of agony

My sensations...their excess destroyed my agony beneath them

unequal

My spirits became unequal

unfulfilled

My task is unfulfilled."

horrible face

Never did I behold a vision as horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness

doesn't think he's done wrong

Nor do I find it blamable."

not many hours left

Not many hours left to live

forebodings of evil

Obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom.

V's big speech to crew

Oh! Be men or be more than men...do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe."

peril and ice

Peril...doomed...surrounded by mountains of ice

e feels an omen

Presentiment of evil pervaded her

beautiful forest

Rambling in its beautiful forest

mountain ominous

Range of mountain above mountain by which it was overhung

W has no patience

Requires more philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with patience

revenge gives strength

Revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure

revenge alive

Revenge kept me alive

scoffing devil

Scoffing devil! Again do I vow vengeance

chance intervened- hope

Some fortunate chance had intervened

e whisper

Something whispers to me not to depend too much on the prospect that is opened before us

storm

Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended

mummy

Texture like that of a mummy

tomb of family and friends

The cemetery...the tomb which marked their graves."

not like the herd

The creation of a sensitive and rational animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors

chief mourner

The deep grief quickly gave way to rage and despair."

elevation like madness

The elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness."

cannot deal with agony

The human frame could no longer support the agonizing suffering that I endured."

immediate union horror

The idea of immediate union with my Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay

men have no courage

The men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honor, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardship

throwing remains into the sea

The moon...was suddenly overspread by a thick cloud, and I took advantage of the moment of darkness, and cast my basket into the sea.

night passes and rage to despair

The night passed away, the sun rose from the ocean; my feelings became calmer, if it may be called calmness, when the violence of rage sinks into the depths of despair

remains of second creature

The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being

sad scene

The scene...solemn and affecting

ice

The sea of ice

solitude wanted

The solitude I coveted."

spirits of departed

The spirits of the departed seemed to flit around, and to cast a shadow, which was felt but not seen, around the head of the chief mourner."

sun set

The sun sank lower in the heavens

threat a delusion

The threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty

threat delusion

The threat appeared more of a delusion

creature saw murder

The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew

some justice

There was some justice in his arguments

Crew want to go south

They insisted, therefore, that I should...instantly direct my course southward

recalled to life by H

This letter in a degree recalled me to life, and I determined to quit my island at the expiration of two days

talents might be useful

Those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures

fears and inspecting house

Thousand fears arose in my mind" and "I continued walking up and down the passages of the house, inspecting every corner."

would be selfish to re-create life

To create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness

pilgrimage

To fulfill my pilgrimage

travel great distance

To traverse immense deserts until the ocean appeared...and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon...covered with ice...wildness and ruggedness

vengeance died and becomes task of heaven

Vengeance...died in my heart, and I perused my path towards the destruction of the demon, more as a task enjoined by heaven."

volcano

Volcano bursting forth, his face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest rage as he shrieked out imprecations on his prosecutor

journey to satisfy hatred

We shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred."

filthy mass

When I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened

h dead

Where does he now exist? Is this gentle and lovely being lost forever?"

no questioning

Which I dared not trust myself to question.

horror of creature at window

With a sense of horror not to be described I saw at the open widow a figure most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the monster

creator but not master

You are my creator, but I am your master-obey!

blast other passions

You can blast my other passions but revenge remains-revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food.