Frankenstein Language Quotes

Knowledge plays an incredibly large part of Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein. I think that Victor’s obsessive and unhealthy search for knowledge is the true cause of his suffering. Not only does he neglect his friends and family while working to create the monster he puts his own health in danger. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.” In this quote we see that Victor stops at nothing to find if he would be successful with his creation. Victor has made this project such a main priority that once it is completed and the creature comes to life he does not know what to do. Since Victor has met his goals and done what he said he wanted to do he does not want to deal with the being he just created so this becomes a problem for him. We see that Victor was very troubled by this whole experience when he says, “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, as mine has been.”

Manfred tells us how he perceives his fate and expresses feelings similar to those of Victor. Manfred feels doomed in his cruse and after several attempts to escape it sees no other option than death itself. Victor perceives the same for himself in the later half of Frankenstein.

“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.”

Letter 1 Explain what is established in the first passage/letter who is narrating? Why is he making this voyage? When and where is this taking place? To whom is he writing the letter?

Humans are known for bestowing their judgment irrationally and based on the “book cover” of a person, they may degrade their fellow human into the worst positions of the social ladder. Mary Shelley, in her novel Frankenstein, expands on this perspective by using mood and tone to parallel with the circumstances of an event occurring in her novel with shifts throughout the context of the book, symbolized by the changes in nature and seasons. This shift is made frequently between the agonized, desperate, frightful, maybe even suicidal mood and tone with the occurrence of dreadful acts of murder and execution, to the more calming, soothing, optimistic and life-full during a physical and spiritual recovery.

I strongly believe that the creature made by Victor Frankenstein is indeed very human. I say this because he shows many human traits. Some of these traits are that he can feel complex emotion's and he has a higher intellect than most animals such as humans. In this essay I will also discuss multiply reasons some might use as evidence to support the claim that he is not human and why they are not sufficient to make the conclusion that the creature made by Frankenstein is not human.

The creature learned many things from his experience among men. He learned emotion from the family in the woods. The novel shows pictures of the creature watching the family from a window and it shows that the creature is amazed by the family's love towards each other and the sacrifices they made for each other. (Frankenstein pages 96-99). Another thing he had also learned was that he ruin innocent people lives.

The existence of fate and free will also play a huge part of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Shelley uses the foil characters of Victor and his monster to illustrate the differences between the beliefs in fate versus free will. While Victor Frankenstein listened to his professor speak on the powers of modern science, Frankenstein feels as if the professor’s words were “the words of fate”, that they prompted him to find the secrets of creation, and that that day “decided [his] future destiny” (Shelley 27-29). This quote prepares the audience for the upcoming events and that to Victor, those events were fully prompted by fate. Victor uses the existence of fate to rationalize his actions which helps the audience understand his motives more thoroughly. This quote also features a slippery slope

Throughout Shelley’s work, the creature struggles to conform to society, alone from his first moments - abandoned by his creator - he is given no proper upbringing, and abhorred by society. He grows up in hiding and fear, his only interactions with others ending in violence. Hence, seems only natural that his desperate need to conform would lead to violence. The need to “belong” is an essential “human” desire, however this sense of belonging his completely dependent on one’s upbringing.

In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, we discover that the search for now knowledge has a good and a bad side. Suffering is something we all go through at some point. We try to avoid it but our search for knowledge will always lead to suffering. In Frankenstein Victor had set out on a search for knowledge, he was relentless. His search consumed all his time, destroyed relationships, and lead to the death of not only himself but his friends and family. All of those negative effects originated from the monster Victor had created on his search for knowledge. Although Victor may have achieved his end goal, at what cost did this come to? Victor’s search

"Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother" (tears came into his eyes as he spoke); "but is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It is also a duty owed to yourself; for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society." (78)

Playing God usually ends up in catastrophic events, and can even lead to the loss of one’s life. In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein’s obsession with creating life ultimately leads to the death of many of his loved ones. In Frankenstein, Victor, Robert, and the creature all share some trait that shows how they try to play God.

As I’ve continued to advance in my career as a firefighter/EMT I’ve begun to notice the amount of writing that correlates with emergency services. Arguably the most important thing secondary to treatment is report writing. For the past year I have been volunteering in Goochland County and am soon to be an AIC/primary care provider on an ambulance. Throughout the process I have noticed how crucial documentation is by leading patient treatment and handling incident reports. This paper is to inform myself and readers about the topic of writing within the field of EMS based on the questions I have asked EMTs, paramedics, and firefighters.

    In this world, there are many classic sources of literature. Whether it be “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, or “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell, these classic pieces teach us lots about their characters and their growth over time. One classic example of literature, “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, is especially good at this. In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Lee characterizes the protagonist Scout by showing how she does not conform to or care for stereotypes, has a bad temper and is vindictive, and by showing that although Scout is intelligent, she still lacks maturity.

Everything has an end, so does Planet Earth At this point in time, 2017, we live in a world with 7.6 billion people. While in 2000 this was number was 6.1 billion people. Discussions over whether or not we are overpopulated, but what does it actually mean when something is overpopulated? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means “the condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash” (Merriam-Webster).