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- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson, Ronald Levao
- 1996
- “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.
Find the meaning and context of the most memorable quotes from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Learn how the author's vision, the themes, and the characters are reflected in the text.
- "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. "
- "The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. "
- "There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
- "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
- Frankenstein Quotes About Friendship
- Frankenstein Quotes About Nature & Science
- Frankenstein Quotes About Life & Death
- Frankenstein Quotes About Regret
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You may deem me romantic, dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness; but there are moments when, if one performs an act of kindness towards him, or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as ...
I try in vain to be persuadedthat the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. What may not be expectedin a country of eternal light? How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow […] Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply t...
I never saw a manin so wretched a condition. “Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.” Yet from whom has not that rude handren...
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, 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. Unable to endurethe aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a...
Explore the themes of friendship, nature, science, life and death in Frankenstein, the 200-year-old masterpiece by Mary Shelley. These quotes are from the original 1818 edition of the novel, edited by Percy Shelley.
- Annika Barranti Klein
It’s making him mad. Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell. Frankenstein compares himself to Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost. He recognizes that, like Satan, he is guilty of too much ambition. Ambition is Frankenstein’s fatal flaw, but he cannot give it up.
Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. – Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, author Mary Shelley’s Introduction to 1831 edition.
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