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Frankenstein Quotes
Question | Answer |
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"Listen to may tale; when you have heard the that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. The guilty are allowed, by human law, bloody as they are, top speak their own defense before they are condemned." | monster |
These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased the regret which I felt as a child, on learning that my father's injunction forbid my uncle to allow me to embark on a seafaring life.” | walton |
“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abomination, to be spurned at, and kicked, and tramples on.” | monster |
“I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred...." | monster |
"God knows how entirely I am innocent. But do not pretend that my presentations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on the plain and simple explanation of the facts which I have been adduced against me...." | Justine |
“I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.” | monster |
"Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was different than mine in every other respect." | monster |
“Many times I consider Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.” | monster |
“I confess, my son, that I always looked forward to your marriage with our own dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years." | alphonse frankenstein |
"You will know, Victor, that our union has been the favorite plan of your parents ever since our infancy. We were told when we were young and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place. " | elizabeth |
"Yes, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live-- swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes." | victor |
"The murderer discovered! Good God! How can it be? Who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds or combine a mountain stream with straw. I saw him too; he was free last night." | victor |
“A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs...." | victor |
"Enter and I will try in what manner I can to relieve your wants; but unfortunately, my children are from home, and as I am blind, I am afraid I shall find it difficult to procure food for food." | delacey |
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow | victor |