Frankenstien - Key quotes

Question 1

(Walton) ‘I shall satiate my ardent…

Answer 1

‘I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man’

pg 16, Letter 1

Question 2

(Walton) ‘but I bitterly…

Answer 2

‘but I bitterly feel the want of a friend’.

pg 19, start letter 2

Question 3

(Walton) ‘What can stop the determined…

Answer 3

‘What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?’

End of letter 3

Question 4

(Walton) ‘I never saw…

Answer 4

‘I never saw a man in so wretched condition’

Letter 4

Question 5

(Walton) ‘one mans life…

Answer 5

‘One man’s life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race’

pg 29

Question 6

(Victor to Walton) ‘Unhappy man! Do you share my madness…

Answer 6

‘Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me- let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!’

pg 29, letter 4

Question 7

(Victor to Walton) ‘You seek for knowledge and wisdom…

Answer 7

‘You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine have been’

letter 4 August 19th

Question 8

(Victor) ‘Elizabeth as mine…

Answer 8

‘Elizabeth as mine – mine to protect, love, and cherish’

End of chapter 1

Question 9

(Victor) ‘The world was to me a secret…

Answer 9

‘The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine’

pg 38, chapter 2

Question 10

(Victor) ‘No human being could have passed…

Answer 10

‘No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence’

pg 39, chapter 2

Question 11

(Victor) ‘It was the secrets…

Answer 11

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

pg 39, chapter 2

Question 12

(Victor) ‘wealth was…

Answer 12

‘wealth was an inferior object’

Chapter 2, pg 42

Question 13

(Victor) ‘electricity and galvanism…

Answer 13

‘electricity and galvanism…was at once new and astonishing to me.’

Chapter 2, page 43

Question 14

(Victor) ‘In a scientific pursuit there…

Answer 14

‘In a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder’

pg 52, chapter 4

Question 15

(Victor) ‘Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example…

Answer 15

‘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.’

pg 54, chapter 4

Question 16

(Victor) ‘A new species…

Answer 16

‘A new species would bless me as its creator and source;’
(male)

Chapter 4, pg 55

Question 17

(Victor) ‘Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil…

Answer 17

‘Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?’

pg 55, chapter 4

Question 18

(Victor) ‘One hand was stretched…

Answer 18

‘one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs’

Chapter3

Question 19

(Victor) ‘its gigantic structure…

Answer 19

‘its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life’

start of letter 4

Question 20

(Victor) ‘I suffered…

Answer 20

‘I suffered living torture’

Start of chapter 8

Question 21

(Victor) ‘men appear to me…

Answer 21

‘men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood’

pg 95, Volume 2 chapter 1

Question 22

(Victor) ‘These sublime and…

Answer 22

‘These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving’

pg 99, chapter 2 volume 2

Question 23

(Creature) ‘All men…

Answer 23

‘All men hate the wretched’

Volume two, chapter 2

Question 24

(Creature) ‘Have I not…

Answer 24

‘Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?’

Volume two chapter 2, pg 103

Question 25

(Creature) ‘Make me happy…

Answer 25

‘Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous’

pg 103, Chapter 2 volume 2

Question 26

(Creature) ‘Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent…

Answer 26

‘Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone?’

Pg 103, Volume 2 chapter 2

Question 27

(Creature) ‘The whole village was roused…

Answer 27

‘The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country’

pg 109, volume 2 chapter 3

Question 28

(Creature) ‘the barbarity…

Answer 28

‘the barbarity of man’

pg 109, Volume 2 chapter 3

Question 29

(Creature) ‘He raised her, and smiled with such kindness…

Answer 29

‘He raised her, and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature’

pg 110, chapter 3 volume 2

Question 30

(Creature) ‘What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners…

Answer 30

‘What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people; and I longed to join them, but dared not’

Vol 2 chapter 4 page

Question 31

(Creature) ‘If such lovely creatures were miserable…

Answer 31

‘If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched’

pg 113, chapter 4 volume 2

Question 32

(Creature) ‘A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family…

Answer 32

‘A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree’

Question 33

(Creature) ‘I became fully convinced…

Answer 33

‘I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am’

pg 116, chapter 4 volume 2

Question 34

(Titile page) ‘Do i request…

Answer 34

‘Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay’ (Paradise Lost) > creature relates himself to Adam. Attempts to be good, but judges Victor for abandoning him in this hostile world.

Question 35

(Waltons first letter) ‘What may not be expected…

Answer 35

‘What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?’ (light is a symbol of knowledge and discovery + simplify emphasis the ‘ trust in knowledge as pure good’)

letter 1 start

Question 36

(Victor chapter 3) ‘So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein…

Answer 36

‘So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.’ (Third person illustrates his sense of fatalism > driven by his passion)

pg 49, chapter 3

Question 37

(Walton recalling in final letter to sister creatures words over Victor’s dead body)

Answer 37

‘I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on’ (Motif of abortion: creature unwanted, abandoned and shunned by his creature’

Vol 3 Ch 7

Question 38

(Chapter 6) ‘A serene sky and verdant…

Answer 38

‘A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy’ (Romanticism)

end of chapter 6

Question 39

(Chapter 24) ‘Like the archangel…

Answer 39

‘Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.” (Paradise Lost and the devil)

Question 40

Walton: ‘Frankentisen discovered…

Answer 40

‘Franenstien discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he asked to see them and then himself corrected and argumentned them in many places’

Walton in continuation, August 26th

Question 41

Victor: ;I loved…

Answer 41

‘I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal’ + used as a prop