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Chapter 10

On the glacier the creature finds Victor. He asks Victor to listen to his story.

The Sea of Ice
The Sea of Ice. Caspar David Friedrich, 1823 to 1824, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

This chapter in five words

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The quotes

5 big quotes in this chapter.

Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

The creature says he was good. He wanted to love. People made him what he is.

Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel

Creature · Chapter 10 · creation · responsibility · isolation

I should have been your Adam, your first man. Instead you treat me like the devil.

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

Everyone hates the unlucky. And nobody is as unlucky as him.

I ought to be thy Adam

Creature · Chapter 10 · creation · responsibility

The creature asks to be treated like a first son, not a devil.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Creature · Chapter 10 · prejudice · isolation

I was good. Being miserable turned me bad. Make me happy again.

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