Top 50 Quotes You Need for Your Essay from Frankenstein

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#11: “I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 8
• Techniques: Hyperbole, dialogue 

#12: “The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 8
• Techniques: Personification

#13: “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Antithesis, alliteration

#14: “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Rhetorical question, hyperbole 

#15: “I was the slave, not the master, of an impulsive which I detested, yet could not disobey”

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Motif

#16: “For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 8
• Techniques: Callous tone

#17: “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 9
• Techniques: Antithesis

#18: “But revenge kept me alive. I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being”

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 3, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Hyperbole

Frankenstein Quotes about Society

Victor as Creator

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#19: “A new species would bless me as its creator and source.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 1, Chapter 4
• Techniques: Irony

#20: “Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation, come on, then, that I may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Symbolism, allusion, exclamation 

#21: “Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Metaphor, allusion 

#22: “God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Allusion, imagery

#23: “You are my creator, but I am your master;—obey!” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 3
• Techniques: Paradox, authoritative tone, exclamation 

#24: “I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 2, Chapter 9
• Techniques: Reflective tone

#25: “Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Hyperbole, authoritative tone 

#26: “I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine?”

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Allusion, rhetorical question 

#27: “Who am I? What am I? And whence did I come?”

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Rhetorical questions

Knowledge

#28: “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.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein 
• Volume 1, Letter 4
• Techniques: Personification, motif, allusion 

#29: “I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 5
• Techniques: Emotive tone

#30: “This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 4
• Techniques: Oxymoron

#31: “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 1, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Hyperbole

#32: “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 5
• Techniques: Simile

#33: “My mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 1, Chapter 4
• Techniques: Anaphora

#34: “Enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my own employment.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 3, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Exemplum

#35: “Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Symbolism

Quotes from Frankenstein about Destiny

#36: “The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.”

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 1, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Foreshadowing, hyperbole

#37: “Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein 
• Volume 1, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Personification, foreshadowing

#38: “I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 6
• Techniques: Alliteration 

#39: “Some destiny of the most horrible kinds hangs over me, and I must live to fulfill it.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 4
• Techniques: Dialogue 

#40: “Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.”

• Character: Victor Frankenstein 
• Volume 1, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Metaphor, foreshadowing 

#41: “I looked upon them as superior beings, who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 4
• Techniques: Foreshadowing 

#42: “I was cursed by some devil, and carried about with me my eternal hell.”

• Character: Victor Frankenstein 
• Volume 2, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Allusion

#43: “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 3, Chapter 7
• Techniques: Allusion

Frankenstein Quotes about Sublime Nature

#44: “My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 5
• Techniques: Imagery, hyperbole 

#45: “These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.”

• Character: Victor Frankenstein 
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Imagery, hyperbole 

#46: “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 2, Chapter 1
• Techniques: Personification 

#47: “These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 2
• Techniques: Personification, imagery 

#48: “Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun.” 

• Character: The Monster
• Volume 2, Chapter 8
• Techniques: Imagery, emotive tone 

#49: “I pursued nature to her hiding-places.” 

• Character: Victor Frankenstein
• Volume 1, Chapter 4 
• Techniques: Personification 

#50: “Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature.”

• Character: Walton
• Volume 1, Letter 4
• Techniques: Hyperbole

Frankenstein’s Last Words

“Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.”