Frankenstein: How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life, even in the excess of misery!

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1 Frankenstein: How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life, even in the excess of misery! Mary Shelley: And now, once again I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affeceon for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words 5 6

2 His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated from faegue and suffering (LeKer IV) Frankenstein: I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superseeon, or to have feared the apparieon of a spirit. 7 8

3 Frankenstein thinking about himself: My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domesec; and this had given me invincible repugnancy to new countenances. Mr. Kirwin: I should have thought, young man, that the presence of your father would have been welcome, instead of inspiring such violent repugnance. Frankenstein: A mind of moderate capacity, which closely pursues on study, must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. 9 10

4 It was a divine spring; and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence. Frankenstein: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained addieonal strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversaeon of my friend

5 Frankenstein: A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy. The monster: Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! 13 14

6 Walton, about Frankenstein: This morning, as I sat watching the pallid countenance of my friend his eyes half closed and his limbs hanging listlessly JusEne: I confessed, that I might obtain absolueon; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins

7 Walton, about Frankenstein: These paroxysms pass from him like a cloud from before the sun, though dejeceon never leaves him. Monster: On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neighbourhood of man, and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow-creatures and the author of your own speedy ruin

8 Frankenstein: My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived. Frankenstein: Ader some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval

9 Frankenstein: SomeEmes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly, that I felt the palpitaeon of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness. And JusEne smiled languidly. Frankenstein: Misery had her dwelling in my heart, but I no longer talked in the same incoherent manner of my own crimes; sufficient for me was the consciousness of them

10 The monster: impotent envy and biker indignaeon filled me with an insaeable thirst for vengeance. I shall saeate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited (LeKer I) 23 24

11 The monster: This, then was the reward for my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruceon, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shakered flesh and bone. The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. Frankenstein: Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire therefore, in this narraeon, to state those facts which led to my predileceon for that science

12 Frankenstein: nothing can alter my deseny. Listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood

13 About Frankenstein s father: He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefaegable akeneon to public business JusEne: I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly