Victor Frankenstein Quotes – Flashcards
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"No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself"
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Very idyllic as though he is trying to persuade the reader that his parents are not responsible for his failures.
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"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine"
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As a child he showed signs of curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
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"Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature ... are among the earliest sensations I can remember"
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He describes himself as always having a desire for forbidden knowledge.
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"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn"
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Expresses his childhood idealism of playing good and becoming superiorly understanding of Earth.
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"The innocent and helpless creature"
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Mirrors and foreshadows the creature, and shows that he and the creature are more alike than Victor thinks.
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"struggle with a child's blindness"
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He shows how he has struggled in an attempt to gain sympathy from the reader, yet also creating a parallel to the Creature.
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"Silken cord"
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He thinks his childhood was perfect however he has been guided by his parents, therefore they were more responsible for his failures, than he thinks.
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"the being to which that had given life-"
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Describes himself the same way he describes the creature. The language is unnatural and implies a scientific event rather than an emotional one.
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"Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery"
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His description of himself after the creation of the Creature is similar to that of women after birth in the nineteenth century who would lock themselves away so that society could not see the affects of labour.
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"William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!"
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Romantic Victor, also with his sublime awareness of nature
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"Penetrate the secrets of nature"
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Describing nature as female victor sexualises nature, showing how he finds science erotic backing up his fear of sexuality and also showing the dominating nature of male over female.
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"till death she was to be mine only"
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Objectifies Elizabeth, presenting women as a commodity.
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"my more than sister"
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Highlights his warped idea of relationships and show the incestuous connection, also shown how he dreams of his wife becoming his dead mother.
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"to me the idea of an immediate union with my Elizabeth was one of horror and dismay"
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foreshadows the murdered of Elizabeth and highlights his fear of sex, also with homosexual readings by Anne.K.Mellor shows how he is not sexually attracted to Elizabeth or females.
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"noble spirit of Clerval" "so full of kindness and tenderness"
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Men prioritise the appearance of women and the mind of men.
