Theme: turmoil
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Isolation and Connection
This thought haunted him, and he never ceased cursing his miserable folly. Finding himself too wretched to remain alone, he knocked at Aouda’s door, w...
The War of the Worlds / Storm Rising
From Ripley until I came through Pyrford I was in the valley of the Wey, and the red glare was hidden from me. As I ascended the little hill beyond Py...
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...
Wuthering Heights / Class and Conflict
don’t let them say such things,” she pursued in great trouble. “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my—”...
Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness
It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
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 ...
Dracula / Character Complexity
John Seward, the lunatic-asylum man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. He was very cool outwardly, but was nervous all the same.
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Conflict
Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on ...
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, ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...