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Frankenstein Quotes
Frankenstein Assessment 15.03.18 Quotes
| Quote | Technique |
|---|---|
| “Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.” Vol 1, Chap 4 | Binary opposition - life and death, light and dark |
| “I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.” Vol 3 Chap 3 | Metaphor - sensation of madness |
| “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.” Volume 1 Chapter 5 | Irony |
| “I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.” Volume 2 chapter 8 | Metaphor - carrying to despair, miseries shall torment and destroy him |
| “No word, no expression could body forth the relationship in which she stood to me - my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only” Victor referring to Elizabeth at end of chapter 1 when Elizabeth becomes his sister | Foreshadowing as Elizabeth ends up dying “as his” |
| “Do so, if you will; but I will not. You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by Heaven, and I dare not.” | Biblical Allusion |
| “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend” Volume 2 chapter 2, when the monster confronted Victor | Contrast - benevolent and good, misery and fiend |
| ‘Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life?” | Alliteration |
| ‘One man’s life or death were a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge’ | Litotes |
| ‘... while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes’ | Hyperbole |
| ‘The different accidents of human life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature’ | Simile |
| I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health… [she] became livid with the hue of death’ | Metaphor, Foreshadow |
| "I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames." - The monster | Biblical Allusion: Ascending - going to Heaven, Torturing flames - hell Symbolism - flames of purity |
| "When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I can not believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness." - The monster | Romantic style |
| “After the murder of Clerval, I returned to Switzerland, heart broken and overcome. I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror: I abhorred myself.” - The monster Vol 3, Chap 7 | Repetition - pity, pitied Repetition/motif of abhorred Epithet - Abhorred monster Irony |
| "... But one vast hand was extended, in colour and texture like that of a mummy" - Walton, Vol 3 Chap 7 | Self Reference |
| "Imminent danger of being crushed in their conflict", "a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes", "he speedily sinks again" | Alliteration |
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