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"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock." (The monster, 141)
"The labours I endured were no longer alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure." (The monster, 168)
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before." (Victor Frankenstein, 244)
"Satan had his companions, fellow devils to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested (The Monster, 154)."
"None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder (Victor Frankenstein, 47)."
1. "All pleasures of earth and sky passed before me like a dream, and that thought only had me the reality of life." (Victor Frankenstein, 178) 2. "...I allowed myself to be borne away by them; and, forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. Soft tears again bede wed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me." (The Monster, 167) 3. "The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state,and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure." (Frankenstein, 168)
" It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch! who had never beheld aught beautiful before. " (The Monster, 124) " It had then filled me with a sublime ecstacy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy." ( Frankenstein, 110) " And what was I? Of my creation and creator i was absolutely ignorant; but i knew that i possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property." (The Monster, 140)
"'In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being . . . I refused, and I did right in refusing, to create a companion for the first creature. He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends . . . Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die. The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed.'" Chapter 24, pg. 199-200 (victor) "'Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.'" Chapter 24, pg. 200 (victor)
"'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, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.'" Chapter 10, pg. 83 (monster)
1. "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such a friend ought to be -- do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures." Letter 4, pg. 14
2."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." Chapter 4, pg. 38
1) "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries." Chapter 24, pg. 200
2) "When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" Chapter 13, pg. 105
“-- he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed endured, wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes I did not satisfy my own desires.”- The Monster pg. 165
“-- I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.”- The Monster P. 104
1)"The tranquility which I now enjoyed did not endure. Memory brought madness with it; and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me" sometimes I was furious , and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent." 2)"His words had strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened..." 3)"The blood flowed freely in my veins,but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove."
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ReplyDelete"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock." (The monster, 141)
ReplyDelete"The labours I endured were no longer alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure." (The monster, 168)
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before." (Victor Frankenstein, 244)
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ReplyDelete"I thought (foolish wretch!) That it might be in my power to restore happiness to these people"- The creature pg 81
ReplyDelete" thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin." - Victor Frankenstein, page 23
"I do not know' said the man " what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains." -village man, page 127
"Satan had his companions, fellow devils to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested (The Monster, 154)."
ReplyDelete"None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder (Victor Frankenstein, 47)."
1. "All pleasures of earth and sky passed before me like a dream, and that thought only had me the reality of life." (Victor Frankenstein, 178)
ReplyDelete2. "...I allowed myself to be borne away by them; and, forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. Soft tears again bede wed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me." (The Monster, 167)
3. "The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state,and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure." (Frankenstein, 168)
" It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch! who had never beheld aught beautiful before. " (The Monster, 124)
ReplyDelete" It had then filled me with a sublime ecstacy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy." ( Frankenstein, 110)
" And what was I? Of my creation and creator i was absolutely ignorant; but i knew that i possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property." (The Monster, 140)
"'In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being . . . I refused, and I did right in refusing, to create a companion for the first creature. He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends . . . Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die. The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed.'" Chapter 24, pg. 199-200 (victor)
ReplyDelete"'Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.'" Chapter 24, pg. 200 (victor)
"'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, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.'" Chapter 10, pg. 83 (monster)
1. "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such a friend ought to be -- do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures." Letter 4, pg. 14
ReplyDelete2."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." Chapter 4, pg. 38
1) "Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries." Chapter 24, pg. 200
ReplyDelete2) "When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" Chapter 13, pg. 105
“-- he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed endured, wasting in impotent passions. For while I destroyed his hopes I did not satisfy my own desires.”- The Monster pg. 165
ReplyDelete“-- I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.”- The Monster P. 104
“ I am alone.” - The Monster p. 165
1)"The tranquility which I now enjoyed did not endure. Memory brought madness with it; and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me" sometimes I was furious , and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent."
ReplyDelete2)"His words had strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened..."
3)"The blood flowed freely in my veins,but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove."
1) pg 140
Delete2)pg.106
3)61