Chapters 3 and 4 Quotes (Frankenstein): Flashcards
(34 cards)
“this best of women did not desert her”
“the first misfortune of my life occurred - an omen, as it were, of my future misery”
“My children […] my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”
“Elizabeth, you must supply my place”
“the despair that is exhibited on the countenance”
“the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar, and dear to the ear, can be hushed, never more to be heard”
“when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity” / “My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform”
“She indeed veiled her grief, and strove to act the comforter to us all” / “never was she so enchanting as at this time”
“I was now alone”
“I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge”
“the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me..”
“have indeed performed miracles” / “they ascend into the heavens” / “they have acquired new and almost unlimited powers”
“As he went on, I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy” / “So much has been done [..] more, far more, will I achieve” / “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation”
“I am happy” / “to have gained a disciple”
“he smoothed for me the path of knowledge”
“but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries”
“none but those who have experienced them can conceive the enticements of science”
“yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice and carelessness did not restrain our inquiries”
“unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm […] I would have been irksome, and almost intolerable”
“I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body” / “darkness had no effect upon my fancy” / “I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life”
“I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual, light.”
“I see by your eagerness” / “listen patiently until the end of my story” - a reminder that Walton is still listening, this is Victor reflecting.
“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”
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore on me onwards, like a hurricane”
