01
“I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
sadness
ᐧ
knowledge
concepts
02
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
fear
ᐧ
power
concepts
03
“Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
money
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appearances
concepts
04
“The nearer I approached to your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
revenge
concept
05
“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
suffering
concept
06
“I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Alphonse Frankenstein
character
family
concept
07
“How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Victor Frankestein
ᐧ
Frankenstein's Monster
characters
monster
concept
08
“I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of becoming one among my fellows. The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild exhortations of the old man and the lively conversation of the loved Felix were not for me. Miserable, unhappy wretch!”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
09
“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
suffering
concept
10
“By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers. This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
knowledge
concept
11
“But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
dreams
ᐧ
anger
concepts
12
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
knowledge
ᐧ
passion
concepts
13
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
life
concept
14
“Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Justine
character
judgement
ᐧ
confidence
concepts
15
“Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has traveled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Captain Walton
character
nature
concept
16
“The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Victor Frankestein
character
summer
concept
17
“Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica--she looked so frank-hearted and happy.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Justine
character
happiness
ᐧ
beauty
concepts
18
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
change
concept
19
“As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
destruction
concept
20
“But success SHALL crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
success
ᐧ
ambition
concepts
21
“Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.”
Isaac Newton
person
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
exploring
concept
22
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
love
ᐧ
fear
concepts
23
“As I fixed my eyes on the child, I saw something glittering on his breast. I took it; it was a portrait of a most lovely woman. In spite of my malignity, it softened and attracted me. For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
anger
ᐧ
suffering
concepts
24
“Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed it capable; his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure; and at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Felix
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Safie
characters
love
concept
25
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
change
concept
26
“I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Victor Frankestein
ᐧ
Frankenstein's Monster
characters
dreams
concept
27
“During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures. The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress. It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
rain
ᐧ
weather
concepts
28
“Justine has just returned to us; and I assure you I love her tenderly. She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mein and her expression continually remind me of my dear aunt.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Justine
character
appearances
concept
29
“I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects. From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
ambition
concept
30
“He struggled violently. `Let me go,′ he cried; `monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa.′`Boy, you will never see your father again; you must come with me.′`Hideous monster! Let me go. My papa is a syndic—he is M. Frankenstein—he will punish you. You dare not keep me.‘”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
ᐧ
William
characters
monster
concept
31
“Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
appearances
concept
32
“A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Frankenstein's Monster
character
appearances
concept
33
“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.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Victor Frankestein
character
power
ᐧ
knowledge
concepts
34
“The innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.”
35
“I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
monster
concept
36
“What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
knowledge
concept
37
“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.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
Victor Frankestein
character
knowledge
concept
38
“When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author
Frankenstein
book
anger
ᐧ
hatred
concepts