The Monster Flashcards
(7 cards)
Chapter 10: annihilation
“All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.”
Chapter 13: none like me
“When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
Chapter 16: my companion
“I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.”
Chapter 20: light of food!
“You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains - revenge, henceforth dearer than light of food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery.”
Elizabeth murder foreshadowing
“I will be with you on your wedding night.”
Walton, in continuation. : I am alone
“The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
Walton in continuation. : no injustice in this?
“Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”
