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.