“I never saw a more
interesting creature:
his eyes have “Beam of benevolence “generally
“sometimes he
generally an and sweetness that I melancholy and
gnashes his teeth”
expression of never saw equalled” despairing”
wildness, and even
madness”
“A new species would
“My temper was “Imbued with a
bless me as its creator “The tortures of the
sometimes violent fervent longing to
and source … would accused did not equal
and my passions penetrate the secrets
owe their being to mine”
vehement” of nature”
me”
“Had I right, for my “Like the archangel “A thousand times
“There can be no
own benefit, to inflict who aspired to would I have shed my
community between
this curse upon omnipotence, I am own blood, drop by
you and me; we are
everlasting chained in an eternal drop, to have saved
enemies.”
generations?” hell” their lives.”
“Yet why do I say
this? I have myself “Oh Frankenstein!
been blasted in these Generous and
hopes, yet another self-devoted being!”
may succeed.”
, The Creature
“I had selected his
features as beautiful. “work of muscles and “lustrous black
“pearly whiteness”
Beautiful! Great arteries beneath” [hair]”
God!”
“he muttered some
“shrivelled inarticulate sounds,
“watery eyes” “straight black lips”
complexion” while a grin wrinkled
his cheeks”
“remember that I am
thy creature; I ought “I was a poor, “In my joy I thrust
“All men hate the
to be thy Adam; but I helpless, miserable my hand into the live
wretched”
am rather the fallen wretch” embers”
angel”
“I thought (foolish
wretch!) that it might “And what was I? Of “endued with a figure
“terrified when I
be in my power to my creation and hideously deformed …
viewed myself in a
restore happiness to creator I was from which all men
transparent pool!”
these deserving absolutely ignorant” fled”
people”
“I shall collect my
“His soul is as hellish “He was soon borne
“I considered Satan funeral pile and
as his form, full of away by the waves
as the fitter emblem consume to ashes this
treachery and and lost in darkness
of my condition” miserable frame...I
fiend-like malice” and distance”
shall die”