Frankenstein Quotes
Walton expresses his own isolation...
"I have no friend"
The creature's threat to Victor...
"I shall be with you on your wedding night"
Victor uses hyperbole to demonstrate the dangers of ambition...
"If no man had allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country"
Clerval cared for Frankenstein like a...
"Kind and attentive nurse"
Description of Elizabeth's death...
"Lifeless, inanimate, thrown across the bed her head hanging down"
The creature states that he is...
"Malicious because I am miserable"
In response to the conviction of Justine, Elizabeth exclaims that people appear to be...
"Monsters thirsting for each other's blood"
Victor Frankenstein's egotistical comment about what his creation would owe to him...
"No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs"
The creature's description of the life he wishes for is...
"Peaceful and human"
The two reasons given by Frankenstein for his quest
"Pour a torrent of light into our dark world" and so that "a new species would bless me as its creator"
Victor Frankenstein's depression is seen in that he...
"Prayed for death"
Elizabeth is given to Victor as a...
"Pretty present"
Alphonse states how the system of justice can be relied upon
"Rely on the justice of our laws"
Frankenstein feels shame for the act that he is committing as he...
"Shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime"
Frankenstein was spoilt as a child as he was guided by a...
"Silken cord"
Elizabeth has the ability to...
"Soften and attract"
The creature pledges to...
"Spread havoc and destruction around me"
The two reasons given by Walton for his quest
"The inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all man-kind" and "glory"
Frankenstein's selfishness during the trial of Justine...
"The tortures of the accused did not equal mine"
Frankenstein's description of his wedding night
"This night is dreadful, very dreadful"
Demonstrates Frankenstein's abandonment of the creature...
"Unable to endure the aspect of the being I created"
The creature is rejected by society, he questions...
"Was I then, a monster, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned"
Justine commits herself to the...
"Will of heaven"
The result of the DeLacey's actions to save a man from prison...
"deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile"
Frankenstein's response to the idea of marrying Elizabeth as suggested by his father...
"the idea of an immediate union with my Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay"
Victor Frankenstein
"A new species would bless me its creator"
The creature asks Walton about his condemning of him...
"Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all of human kind sinned against me?"
The creature describes himself as...
"An unfortunate and deserted creature"
The quote that both the creature and Frankenstein use to describe their inner torment...
"Bore a hell within me"
Caroline Beaufort is strong because her...
"Courage rose to support her in adversity"
The creature explains his want for a female creature...
"Create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being"
Description of Victor's dream...
"Embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips they became livid with the hue of death; and I thought I held he corpse of my dead mother in my arms"
Elizabeth is described as being...
"Fairer than a garden rose among dark leaved brambles"
As the creature discovered the world around him he...
"Gazed with a kind of wonder"
The creature disappears from sight at the end of the novel...
"He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness"
Elizabeth is...
"Heaven sent"
Safie is brought up to aspire to...
"Higher-powers of intellect and and independent spirit"
Caroline Beaufort is...
A "guardian angel to the afflicted"