Revenge in Frankenstein

The creature kills Victor's family because Victor abandoned him. Victor hunts the creature to the ice. Each ruins the other.

The quotes

12 quotes, in the order they happen.

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live?

Creature · Chapter 16 · creation · revenge · responsibility

After the De Laceys drive him out. He curses Victor for making him and leaving him.

I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me

Creature · Chapter 16 · revenge · isolation

Like the devil, he carries hell around inside him.

Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy

Creature · Chapter 16 · revenge · family

The creature meets little William and learns his name. He kills him for it.

I am malicious because I am miserable.

Creature · Chapter 17 · revenge · isolation · prejudice

I am bad because I am unhappy. Make me happy and I will be good. His whole argument in six words.

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

Creature · Chapter 20 · revenge

Victor destroys the half-made female. The creature has nothing to lose now. That makes him dangerous.

I will be with you on your wedding-night.

Creature · Chapter 20 · revenge · family

The threat. Victor thinks it means his own death. It means Elizabeth's.

You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!

Creature · Chapter 20 · creation · revenge

The roles flip. The made thing gives the orders.

Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.

Creature · Chapter 20 · revenge

He tried talking. Victor broke the deal. Now the creature calls him slave.

You have destroyed the work which you began

Creature · Chapter 20 · responsibility · revenge

Victor tore up the female. The creature's last hope is gone.

the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil

Victor · Chapter 24 · prejudice · revenge

An angel that falls turns into a devil. Victor's view of the creature, in the creature's own words from earlier.

Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

Creature · Walton's last letters · revenge · isolation

Nowhere left to go. He will burn himself on the ice.

I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery

Creature · Walton's last letters · revenge · responsibility

The creature admits he destroyed a man worth loving. He does not say Victor deserved it.