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“I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away, and indulged in the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure, I was now alone”
ReplyDeleteGood quote. Really focuses on the loneliness Victor was feeling while diving into his studies.
Delete“After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter”(53).
ReplyDelete“I confess that neither of the structure of languages, nor the code of government, nor the politics of various states possess attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desire to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world (39).”
ReplyDelete“ I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed it’s bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon myself.” (40) - abbie
ReplyDelete“I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain. I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life” (53).
ReplyDelete“Wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death.” (42) (Colby)
ReplyDelete“[...I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine - mine to protect, love, and cherish.[...]No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me - my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only”(37). -Collin
ReplyDelete“I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit,” (55).
ReplyDelete-Ethan
“No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me - my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only” (37)
ReplyDelete"Learn from me, if not by my percepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" (54). (Olivia Currier)
ReplyDelete"My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately."(39) -sydney
ReplyDeleteThis quote perfectly describes how he takes his anger and uses it as motivation to learn and grow
Delete"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, not befitting the human mind" (56)
ReplyDeleteHe clearly has forgotten the wants/pleasures in life because he is so addicted to the big questions of science.
Delete"Such were the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of fate - enounced to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy" (49).
ReplyDelete"Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become; the energy of my purpose alone sustained me: my labors would soon end, and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease; and I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete." (57)
ReplyDelete"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility” (56).
ReplyDelete"As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being: chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein, more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (49)
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