Chapter 8 Quotes (Frankenstein): Flashcards
(19 cards)
“During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture” - Victor
“now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave; and I the cause!” - Victor
“A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine; but…” - Victor, scared of consequences
“for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited, was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed” - about J
“A tear seemed to dim her eye when she saw us” - J
“God knows […] how entirely I am innocent” / “I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favourable interpretation” - J
“I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly” - J
“The tortures of the accused did not equal mine” ?!? - Victor
“but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured”
“how could she put on those smiles of innocence only to betray?” - about Justine
“I am not one of your enemies, I believed you guiltless ….” - Elizabeth talking to Justine
“I did confess, but I have confessed a lie” / “but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins” / “I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was” - J
“all looked on me as a wretch” / “What could I do?” - J, parallels the Creature
“I will melt the stony hearts of your enemies by my tears and prayers” - Elizabeth
“I leave a sad and bitter world” / “I am resigned to the fate awaiting me” - Justine
“I gnashed my teeth, and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul” - Victor
“I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish” - Victor
“This was also my doing!” - Victor
“the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts” - Victor
