Frankenstein Themes and Quotes

• "The dazzeling light vanished, the oak had dissappeared and nothing remained but a blasted stump"

• "Lightnings play upon the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures"

• " I am a blasted tree, the bolt has entered my soul"

• "Have aquired new and almost unlimited powers"

• "Command the thunders of heaven"

• "I ought to be thy Adam"

• "Did I request thee maker from my clay mould me man?" - Paridise Lost

• "My eyes were insensible to the charms of nature"

• "A fatal prejudice clouds their eyes"

• "They behold only a detestable monster"

• "Absent myself from all I loved while thus employed"

• "Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?"

• "I was left nto struggle with a child's blindness"

• "I am a blasted tree, the bolt has entered my soul"

• "I sat down and wept" - Monster after creation 

• "Only a human being or a humaniod can be a true monster" - Reichart

Victor uses literature to learn about science and the monster, about people and society 

• "Men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood"

• "To unexplored regions"

• "Bestowing animation upon lifeless matter"

• "The worm inhibits the eye"

• "I am a blasted tree, the bolt has entered my soul"

• "I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness"