Creature Quotes

Question 1

“The light became more and more oppressive to me” / “darkness then came over me, and troubled me” (chapter 11)

Question 2

“This was the forest near Ingolstadt” / “I felt tormented by hunger and thirst” / “I felt cold also, and half-frightened, as it were instinctively” (chapter 11)

Question 3

“I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch” (chapter 11)

Question 4

“when under one of the trees I found a huge cloak” / “a radiant roof of light” / “a radiant form rise from among the trees” (chapter 11)

Question 5

“Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again” (chapter 11)

Question 6

“I found a fire […] but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain” - Prometheus (chapter 11)

Question 7

“I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut: here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the demons of hell” (chapter 11)

Question 8

“the children shrieked and one of the women fainted” / “attacked me” / “fled” / “grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons” (chapter 11)

Question 9

“[I] fearfully took refuge in a low hovel” / “my place of refuge” / “my kennel” (chapter 11)

Question 10

“[I] lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man” (chapter 11)

Question 11

“and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power” (chapter 11)

Question 12

“I resolved to reside in this hovel” / “It was indeed a paradise” (chapter 11)

Question 13

“The girl was young, and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farm-house servants to be” (chapter 11)

Question 14

“In one of these was a small and almost imperceptible chink, through which the eye could just penetrate” (chapter 11)

Question 15

“to produce sweeter sounds than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale” / “[the] benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love” (chapter 11)

Question 16

“drew tears from the eyes of his amiable companion […] until she sobbed audibly” / “the fair creature” (chapter 11)

Question 17

“I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions” (chapter 11)

Question 18

“the setting of the sun did not put an end to the pleasure I experienced in watching my human neighbours” (chapter 11)

Question 19

“but at that time I knew nothing of the science of words or letters” (chapter 11)

Question 20

“I longed to join them, but dared not” (chapter 12)

Question 21

“Nothing could exceed the love and respect which the young cottagers exhibited towards their venerable companion” / “he rewarded them by his benevolent smiles” (chapter 12)

Question 22

“I saw no cause for their unhappiness; but I was deeply affected by it” / “Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy? / “they had a fire to warm them when chill, and delicious viands when hungry” (chapter 12)

Question 23

“it was poverty […] they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree” (chapter 12)

Question 24

“I discovered also another means through which I was enabled to assist their labours” (chapter 12)

Question 25

"I sympathised in their joys" / "when they were unhappy, I felt depressed" (chapter 12) > link to imitation with the clones in NLMG.

Question 26

"I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers" (chapter 12)

Question 27

"At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification" (chapter 12)

Question 28

"I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity" (chapter 12)

Question 29

"I went into the woods, and collected my own food and fuel for the cottage" (chapter 12)"

Question 30

"I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures" / "superior beings" / "I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love" (chapter 12)

Question 31

"My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlikely the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease" (chapter 12)

Question 32

"Happy, happy earth!" (chapter 12)

Question 33

"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature" (chapter 12)

Question 34

"the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy" (chapter 12)

Question 35

"Spring advanced rapidly" / "bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure" / "a thousand sights of beauty" (chapter 13)

Question 36

"angelic beauty and expression" / "at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger" / "the young stranger knelt at the old man's feet, and would have kissed his hand, but he raised her, and embraced her affectionately" (chapter 13)

Question 37

"she was neither understood by, nor herself understood, the cottagers" / "endeavouring to learn their language" (chapter 13)

Question 38

"I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible" (chapter 13)

Question 39

"drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes" (chapter 13)

Question 40

"the old man appeared enraptured" (chapter 13)

Question 41

"with the sole alteration that joy had taken placed of sadness in the countenances of my friends" (chapter 13)

Question 42

"she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language" (chapter 13)

Question 43

"my protectors" (chapter 13)

Question 44

"fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered" (chapter 13)

Question 45

"wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans" / "decline of that mighty empire; of chivalry, Christianity and kings" = domination through force (chapter 13)

Question 46

"Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?" / "noble and godlike" (chapter 13)

Question 47

"For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow" / "but when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased, and I turned away with disgust and loathing" (chapter 13)

Question 48

"the strange system of human society was explained to me" (chapter 13)

Question 49

"doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant; but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property" (chapter 13)

Question 50

"I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature of man" (chapter 13)

Question 51

"Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" (chapter 13)

Question 52

"Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it" / "I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death" / "a state which I feared yet did not understand" (chapter 13)

Question 53

"Miserable, unhappy wretch!" (chapter 13)

Question 54

"how the father doated on the smiles of the infant" / "how the mind of youth expanded" (chapter 13) = the creature does not experience this!!!!

Question 55

"No father had watched my infant days" / "if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing" (chapter 13)

Question 56

"What was I?" (chapter 13)

Question 57

"but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors" / "half painful self-deceit" (chapter 13)

Question 58

"The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant" / "his religion and wealth, rather than the crime alleged against him, had been the cause of his condemnation" (chapter 14)

Question 59

"promises of reward and wealth" / "yet, when he saw the lovely Safie [...] the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully reward his toil and hazard" (chapter 14)

Question 60

"endeavoured to secure him more entirely in his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage" (chapter 14)

Question 61

"the young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced" / "taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect, and an independence of spirit, forbidden to the female followers of Mahomet" (chapter 14)

Question 62

"the prospect of marrying a Christian, and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society, was enchanting to her" (chapter 14)

Question 63

"the turk allowed this intimacy to take place, and encouraged the hopes of the youthful lovers, while in his heart he had formed far other plans" / "secretly take his daughter with him when he departed" (chapter 14)

Question 64

"DeLacey and Agatha were thrown into prison" / "roused him from his dream of pleasure" / "this idea was torture to him [...] his blind and aged father [...] lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air" (chapter 14)

Question 65

"Safie was outraged by this demand" / "when alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it would become her to pursue in this emergency" / "she formed her determination" (chapter 14)

Question 66

"her attendant fell dangerously ill" / "Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection; but the poor girl died" / "left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country" (chapter 14)