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Victor Frankenstein
A young scientist who makes a living creature and abandons it. He loses his whole family and dies chasing it across the ice.
The quotes
29 quotes by or about Victor Frankenstein, in the order they happen.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you
Victor · Letter 4 · knowledge · ambition
Victor warns Walton. Wanting to know too much can bite you like a snake. It bit him.
We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up
Victor · Letter 4 · family · isolation
People are unfinished on their own. They need a friend to complete them. Victor to Walton, about Clerval.
The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.
Victor · Chapter 2 · knowledge · ambition
As a boy Victor wanted to know how everything worked. That wanting is where it starts.
Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate
Victor · Chapter 2 · knowledge
Science decided his life, he says. Not him.
So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve
Victor · Chapter 3 · ambition · knowledge
Others have done a lot. He will do more. He wants to be first and biggest.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge
Victor · Chapter 4 · knowledge · ambition
Victor's warning. Do not do what I did. Knowing too much is dangerous.
A new species would bless me as its creator and source
Victor · Chapter 4 · creation · ambition
He imagines a whole new race worshipping him. He wants to be a god.
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
The famous first line of Chapter 5. The creature comes alive on a wet November night.
I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Victor · Chapter 5 · creation · responsibility
He wanted this more than anything. The moment it is done, he is disgusted. He runs away.
the miserable monster whom I had created
Victor · Chapter 5 · creation · prejudice
Victor's first name for his creation. Monster. He decides what it is before it has done anything.
I felt the bitterness of disappointment
Two years of work. The result makes him sick. He goes to bed.
I beheld the wretch the miserable monster whom I had created
Victor · Chapter 5 · prejudice · creation
The creature comes to his bed and reaches out. Victor sees only a wretch and runs.
the beauty of the dream vanished
The dream was beautiful. The real thing is not.
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.
I ought to be thy Adam
Creature · Chapter 10 · creation · responsibility
The creature asks to be treated like a first son, not a devil.
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.
You must create a female for me
Creature · Chapter 17 · isolation · creation
He asks for one companion. Then he will go away for ever.
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.
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
Creature · Chapter 20 · knowledge · ambition
You think you are wise. You know nothing. The creature to his maker.
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.
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Victor · Chapter 23 · family · isolation
After Elizabeth is killed. Losing everything at once is the worst pain there is.
Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition
Victor · Chapter 24 · ambition · knowledge
Victor's last advice to Walton. Be calm. Do not want too much. He did not take it himself.
Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness in tranquillity
Victor · Chapter 24 · ambition
His last words. Then he dies on the ship.
I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew
Victor · Chapter 24 · family · isolation
His family is dead. There is nothing to rebuild with.
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.
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