Talk:Frankenstein (novel)

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Formatting

The article has been formatted like a film, with sections for characters. It should be formatted like a novel, with quotes arranged by chapters and with quotes in order of appearance within chapters. - InvisibleSun 02:03, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

There is enough material in the Mary Shelley article for that to be moved here, with only a few samples remaining on that page, rather than merging this page into that, and I will probably do that later today or tomorrow. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:57, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I am moving the material from the Shelley page now, and I moved the previous material that was on the page to the sections below, as to provide a means for any re-insertion of significant material that I might have overlooked; I don't plan to spend much time on it today. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:06, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Victor Frankenstein

• "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, as mine has been." (Letter IV, August 19th 17-)

• "With the confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had re-trod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists." (Ch. 3)

• "Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." (pg. 55)

• "The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places." (Ch. 4 pg 40)

• "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.” (pg 54)

• "It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open..." (Ch. 5 pg 43 or pg 35)

• "For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. 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." (Ch. 5 pg 43 or pg 35)

• "I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings." (Ch. 9)

• "A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible." (Ch. 21)

• "Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage. But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim." (Ch. 22)

1931 Movie

Main article: Frankenstein (1931 film)

• "It's alive! It's alive! Now I know what it's like to be God!"