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Frankenstein / Descent into Madness
I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rang on my ears long and heavily; the mountains re-echoed it, and I fel...
Frankenstein / Concealment and Discovery
Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode. Overjoyed at this discovery, he...
Frankenstein / Language and Identity
At other times he worked in the garden, but as there was little to do in the frosty season, he read to the old man and Agatha. “This reading had puzzl...
Frankenstein / Guilt and Gratitude
In these last moments I feel the sincerest gratitude towards those who think of me with kindness. How sweet is the affection of others to such a wretc...
Frankenstein / Betrayal and Virtue
“They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his f...
Frankenstein / Transformation Through Love
how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, ...
Frankenstein / Ambition and Despair
Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...
Frankenstein / Loss and Friendship
I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world befor...
Frankenstein / Existential Burden
If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it. But such i...
Frankenstein / Nature and Isolation
stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart...
Frankenstein / Decay and Rationality
In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to ...
Frankenstein / Natures Obstacles
There were no horses to be procured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in torrents. However, it was hard...
Frankenstein / Vengeance and Isolation
Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death. Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then...
Frankenstein / Natures Sublime Power
He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man. I w...
Frankenstein / Literary Awakening
The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. ...
Frankenstein / Healing Amid Grief
We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? I now say, Thank God she did not live t...
Frankenstein / Mortality and Coincidence
I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing wit...
Frankenstein / Maternal Innocence
She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother. For my own part, I do not hesitate to say ...
Frankenstein / Voyage of Discovery
I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole. Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on ...
Frankenstein / Psychological Turmoil
Save me!” I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit. A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so stran...
Frankenstein / Secrets Unveiled
I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confiden...
Frankenstein / Blindness and Wisdom
The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contemplation. Nothing could exceed the love and re...
Frankenstein / Steeple of Isolation
At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes. I alighted and was conducted to my solitary apartment to spend the evening as I pleased. The...
Frankenstein / Internal Conflict
Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.” I listened to my father in silence and remained for some...
Frankenstein / Condemnations Weight
The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to ...
Frankenstein / Imprisoned Hope
I stretched out my hand to him and cried, “Are you then safe—and Elizabeth—and Ernest?” My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endea...
Frankenstein / Isolation and Connection
If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a...
Frankenstein / Concealment and Joy
Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypre...
Frankenstein / Yearning for Connection
I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy...
Frankenstein / Innocence and Malevolence
Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing...
Frankenstein / Spirit and Consolation
has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
Frankenstein / Flight and Agency
“A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter’s apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been...
Frankenstein / Leadership and Integrity
This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him. A youth passed in solitude, my best y...
Frankenstein / Desolation and Despair
The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation. Frankenstein has daily declined...
Frankenstein / Creative Duality
Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...
Frankenstein / Inevitability of Fate
I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace. I understand your feeling,” continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; “but ...
Frankenstein / Descent and Liberation
I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, imper...
Frankenstein / Unexpected Encounter
Their first supposition was that it was the corpse of some person who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on examination they f...
Frankenstein / Self-Taught Pursuits
It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was,...
Frankenstein / Freedom and Accountability
Kirwin’s to give an account of yourself.” “Who is Mr. Is not this a free country?” “Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks.
Frankenstein / Inner Turmoil
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
Frankenstein / Resilience Amidst Adversity
His property was confiscated; his child became an orphan and a beggar. She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer t...
Frankenstein / Creator and Creature
I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair. From y...
Frankenstein / Fear and Isolation
My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. Take possession of your tenement and let me fly from this place.’ “Felix trembled violentl...
Frankenstein / Revenge and Survival
How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I d...
Frankenstein / Alienation and Identity
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 conver...
Frankenstein / Transformed Perception
Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at lea...
Frankenstein / Moral Ambivalence
Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle th...
Frankenstein / Moral Dilemmas
To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, app...
Frankenstein / Isolation in Nature
But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingl...
Frankenstein / Decay and Mortality
My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and...
Frankenstein / Juxtaposition of Innocence
I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhappy to enjoy the gentle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun setting behind the stupend...
Frankenstein / Quest for Knowledge
But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with ...
Frankenstein / Isolation and Virtue
My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall fee...
Frankenstein / Creators Horror
I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow ...
Frankenstein / Marriage and Society
The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. You...
Frankenstein / Fear of Knowledge
He soon perceived that I disliked the subject; but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty, and changed the subject from my ...
Frankenstein / Desolation and Vulnerability
dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, ...
Frankenstein / Fate and Love
And then I thought again of his words—“_I will be with you on your wedding-night._” That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny....
Frankenstein / Possession and Attachment
The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight. On the evening previo...
Frankenstein / Sisterly Sacrifice
You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold! I never could survive so horrible a misfortune.” Justine shook her head mournfull...
Frankenstein / Moral Conflict
It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full ...
Frankenstein / Creator and Creature
Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.” “Thus I relieve thee, my creator,” he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung...
Frankenstein / Love and Turmoil
While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing—what c...
Frankenstein / Guilt and Innocence
The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold....
Frankenstein / Sensory Awakening
I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, imper...
Frankenstein / Disillusioned Pursuits
I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not a...
Frankenstein / Mentorship and Knowledge
I requested his advice concerning the books I ought to procure. Waldman, “to have gained a disciple; and if your application equals your ability, I ha...
Frankenstein / Journey of Vengeance
I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. ...
Frankenstein / Familial Expectations
Your father’s health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be assured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent count...
Frankenstein / Natures Fury
The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt...
Frankenstein / Cultural Exchange
He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a cursory...
Frankenstein / Transition and Isolation
I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone. In the universit...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm jo...
Frankenstein / Intellectual Passion
My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disa...
Frankenstein / Guilt and Creation
Justine, poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of this—I murdered her. Wil...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, t...
Frankenstein / Pursuit of Happiness
“What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room. “You travelled...
Frankenstein / Survival and Identity
Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other trav...
Frankenstein / Journey of Despair
Six years had passed since then: _I_ was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes. I performed the first part of my journey...
Frankenstein / Truth and Discovery
The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the ...
Frankenstein / Existential Struggle
The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flas...