Victor Quotes

Question 1

“my own Elizabeth” (chapter 6)

Question 2

“I will write instantly, and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel” (chapter 6)

Question 3

“the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms” (chapter 6)

Question 4

“I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death” (chapter 6, blaming M. Waldman)

Question 5

“I writhed under his words” / “Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others […]” (chapter 6)

Question 6

“I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds” (chapter 6)

Question 7

“believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel” (chapter 6)

Question 8

“his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me” (chapter 6, about Henry)

Question 9

“Idleness had ever been irksome to me” / “I read merely to understand their meaning” (chapter 6”

Question 10

“warm sun” / “garden of roses” / “joy elevating” / “melancholy soothing” / “fire that consumes your own heart” (chapter 6)

Question 11

“although the spring was uncommonly late” (omen, chapter 6)

Question 12

“fellow-creatures” (chapter 6)

Question 13

“A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses” (chapter 6)

Question 14

“I became the same happy creature” / “when happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations” (chapter 6, the sublime/nature as restorative)

Question 15

“the present season was indeed divine” / “flowers of spring” / “I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me” (chapter 6)

Question 16

“my own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity” (chapter 6)

Question 17

“How altered everything might be during that time! One sudden and desolating change had taken place” / “fear overcame me” / “nameless evils that made me tremble” (chapter 7)

Question 18

“the calm and heavenly scene restored me” / “I wept like a child” / “Your summits are clear” / “Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?” (chapter 7)

Question 19

“as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me” / “I resolved to visit the spot where my poor William had been murdered” / “I saw lightnings playing” / “the storm appeared to approach rapidly” (chapter 7)

Question 20

“flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes” / “sheet of fire” / “pitchy darkness” / “so beautiful yet terrific” (chapter 7)

Question 21

“A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; 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 demon, to whom I had given life” (chapter 7)

Question 22

“Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child” / “the thunder ceased; but the rain still continued” / “my own spirit let loose from the grave” (chapter 7)

Question 23

“I well know that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity” / “These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent” (chapter 7)

Question 24

“a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame” (chapter 7)

Question 25

"You are all mistaken; I know the murderer. Justine, poor, good Justine, is innocent" (chapter 7)

Question 26

"The blood flowed freely in my veins but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove" (chapter 9)

Question 27

"I wandered like an evil spirit for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and I more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind" (chapter 9)

Question 28

"I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them into practice" (chapter 9)

Question 29

"I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe" (chapter 9)

Question 30

"deep, dark, deathlike solitude" - plosive alliteration (chapter 9)

Question 31

"I now could only answer my father with a look of despair, and endeavour to hide myself from his view" (chapter 9) - shame

Question 32

"I was often tempted" / "I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake" / "The only unquiet thing that wandered restless..." (chapter 9)

Question 33

"Remorse extinguished every hope" (chapter 9)

Question 34

"I had been the author of unalterable evils" (chapter 9)

Question 35

"My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived" / "I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed" / "malice and hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation" (chapter 9)

Question 36

"eternal woe and tears" / "she was no longer that happy creature" (chapter 9, about E)

Question 37

"but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood" (chapter 9)

Question 38

"I could not consent to the death of any human being, but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men" (chapter 9)

Question 39

"suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?" (chapter 9, about E)

Question 40

"The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die - was but a type of me" (chapter 9)

Question 41

"the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows" (chapter 9)

Question 42

"The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper" / "the sound of the river raging" / "spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence" - plosive alliteration. (chapter 9)

Question 43

"maternal nature bade me weep no more" (chapter 9)

Question 44

"Then I spurred on my animal, striving so to forget the world, my fears, and, more than all, myself" (chapter 9)