Victor Frankenstein Monster Quotes

Throughout the entire of the novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows that Frankenstein’s demise is a direct result of his own decisions. Mary displays this through three vivid actions that Victor did; the creation of the creature, the death of his Brother and trial of Justine, and the ignorance Victor had that led to the murder of Victor’s wife, Elizabeth. Victor was a very smart student with an immense drive to accomplish whatever he told himself he was going to accomplish. With Victor’s early studying in college, Victor describes his situation when studying “Victor’s cheeks had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement. “ (Shelley 40), Showing Victor relied so heavily on studying that he was hurting his body

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.”

Victor decided to destroy both the female creature and his promise with the wretch after listing to himself the unknown possibilities that could become the a threat to the human race as he states, ''she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate...might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation... They might even hate each other... She also might turn with disgust from him...'' (Volume lll , Chapter 3, page 136) The indecisiveness of the outcome was put to an end once Victor concluded that it is a threat to not only him, but to the rest of the world.

Vocabulary Words Caprice (n) - a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior No one could better enjoy liberty, yet no one could submit with more grace than she did to constraint and caprice. (Page 4-7) Victor, throughout the course of the novel, grows with a greater mercurial temperament. He exemplified the word capricious. At one moment, he could be joyous with Elizabeth and then the next moment turn to despair as he thought of his horrible creation which snuffed the life of his youngest brother, William and dearest friend, Clerval.

Frankenstein explores multiple ideas of the world, such as abandonment and betrayal. Abandonment and betrayal is shown in the book, Frankenstein as Dr Victor Frankenstein abandons the monster which is also a form of betrayal as Frankenstein was his creator. This means that because Frankenstein abandoned him, the monster had to survive and learn about different aspects of life. Mary Shelley quotes in the book, Frankenstein, “No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses.” This implies that Dr. Victor Frankenstein abandoned him, leaving no one to take care of him.

person to unleash such a terror on the world to benefit only himself and his

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?

Log #1: Intros & Letters Theme: Life and Death pg 9, “What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?... But I must finish.” (Robert Walton) Even though the journey may endanger his life or result in death, Robert Walton says that he must continue and not stop because of it’s dangers. Also, Walton has a lot of faith in himself as he says that nothing can stop his determined heart and that he must finish this journey.

Victor waivers in his authority to maintain power over himself. In his moments of forgoing this power it seems to always land in the hands of the monster. He replenishes the power he holds when it suits his needs and desires. The first example of this is when Victor is anxious to leave his family and saw the creation of a second creature as noble way to fulfil his duty as the creator of the monster (Cite). As well as escape his family, and his impending marriage to Elizabeth “Quote when speaking to father about the marriage.”

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.

Victor thought “for this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart”(page). This quote demonstrates that once Victor had concluded his work of creating the monster, he realized that it may have been a huge mistake. He was not satisfied with his creation instead he was filled with terror. In result of his realization, he left the monster to fend for himself and suffer. Victor shows an evil side of himself by abandoning the monster and leaving him to be universally shunned by society. By Victor doing this one evil act, it causes the monster himself to go off and initiate evil acts of his own.

Adam is so scarily intelligent when he talks to people, if you didn’t look at him first you wouldn’t think there’d be a giant there. Instead of a creature he’s an incredible perfect being that Victor once saw him as but as soon as he came face to face to his creation, well after he leaves him to fend for himself he calls him a devil and says “do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust!”

whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of a man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in it highest sense, the secrets of the world.” (23) Victor has said, this quote shows Victor’s deep desire to learn about all the secrets the world may have. This is the when Victor realizes what he would like to dedicate his life’s work to. Victor ignores both his social life, and his health. He focuses solely on discovering the secrets nature holds. Victor’s obsession with this consumes all his time thus destroying relationships he had. This shows that Victor no longer holds his friends or family close, but instead he pushes them aside to focus on what he feels is more important. Victor speaks of all the countless nights and days he has spent, and how he is tired. Victor had stopped mailing Elizabeth, and she grows worried all due to his search for knowledge. Later on in the story Victor’s work comes alive. He creates a monster, and from this point on nothing will be the same between him and his

"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)

Victor becomes addicted to the science of life after his mother dies, and learns the secret of reanimation He succeeds in creating life, but the creature he creates ends up killing the ones he loves most. An example of Victor’s obsession over life is, when he is reading the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Parcelsus who were all famous alchemists. He states that “there attempts were futile,