1/30/2024 0 Comments Quotes about the monster within![]() ![]() #43: “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” #42: “I was cursed by some devil, and carried about with me my eternal hell.” #41: “I looked upon them as superior beings, who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.” #40: “Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.” #39: “Some destiny of the most horrible kinds hangs over me, and I must live to fulfill it.” #38: “I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction.” Techniques: Personification, foreshadowing.#37: “Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.” #36: “The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.” #35: “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.” #34: “Enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my own employment.” #33: “My mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.” #32: “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.” #31: “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.” #30: “This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it” #29: “I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.” Techniques: Personification, motif, allusion.#28: “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you.” #27: “Who am I? What am I? And whence did I come?” Techniques: Allusion, rhetorical question.#26: “I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. Techniques: Hyperbole, authoritative tone.#25: “Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.” #24: “I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.” Techniques: Paradox, authoritative tone, exclamation.#23: “You are my creator, but I am your master -obey!” #22: “God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.” #21: “Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” Techniques: Symbolism, allusion, exclamation.#20: “Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.” #19: “A new species would bless me as its creator and source.” I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being”įrankenstein Quotes about Society Victor as Creator #17: “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” #16: “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them.” #15: “I was the slave, not the master, of an impulsive which I detested, yet could not disobey” #14: “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” #13: “I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend” #12: “The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness.” #11: “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.” #10: “You can blast my other passions but revenge remains - revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!” #9: “Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, death-like solitude.” #8: “I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.” Techniques: Intertextuality, emotive tone.#7: “No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses.” #6: “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” #5: “Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation I am alone.” #4: “Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him but I am solitary and detested.” #3: “Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” ![]() Techniques: Rhetorical question, hyperbole.#2: “Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?” #1: “I had never yet seen a being resembling me, or who claimed any intercourse with me. Image sourced from Flickr Frankenstein Quotes from the Monster Download our list of Frankenstein quotes now!
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