Chapters 1 and 2 Quotes (Frankenstein):

Question 1

Who are these chapters narrated by?

Answer 1

Victor

Question 2

“I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic”

Answer 2

Immediate display of hubris

Question 3

“he was respected by all who knew him for his integrity” / “honour” / “reputation”

Question 4

“his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection” / “his daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness”

Question 5

“he came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care”

Question 6

“there was a sense of justice in my father’s upright mind” / “there was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother”

Question 7

“he strove to shelter her” / “and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind”

Question 8

“I was their plaything and their idol” / “bestowed on them by Heaven”

Question 9

“I received a lesson of patience, of charity and of self-control” / “deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life”

Question 10

“guardian angel to the afflicted”

Question 11

“her face so expressive [..] that none could behold her without looking on her as a distinct species” / “heaven-sent” / “celestial stamp”

Question 12

“my more than sister”

Question 13

“I have a pretty present for my Victor” / “she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift”

Question 14

“looked upon Elizabeth as mine - mine to protect, love and cherish”

Question 15

“since till death she was to be mine only”

Question 16

“Harmony was the soul o our companionship”

Question 17

“but with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply smitten with the first for knowledge”

Question 18

“she busied herself with […] the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home”

Question 19

“I delighted in investigating their causes” / “the world was to me a secret which I desired to divine” / “hidden laws of nature”

Question 20

“It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few”

Question 21

(about Henry Clerval): “he loved enterprise, hardship and even danger” / “he tried to make us act in plays” / “he was deeply read”

Question 22

“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself”

Question 23

“My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement”

Question 24

“but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately”

Question 25

"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn"

Question 26

"the saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp"

Question 27

"I would account to myself for the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny"

Question 28

"If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me" [...] "I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside" / "the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin"

Question 29

"having been embued with a fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature"

Question 30

"my father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness"

Question 31

"Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame"

Question 32

"we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm" / "I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed"

Question 33

"It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known"

Question 34

(after briefly giving up studies): "it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life - the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars, and ready to envelope me"

Question 35

"It was a strong effort / but it was ineffectual" "Destiny was too potent"