1. “I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.” – the Monster. This quote is taken from the Monster as he is standing over Victor’s dead body. It is the best example in the book of the monster’s true suffering. Since his creation, he has felt unwanted, and so he considers himself an abortion. At this point, he succumbs to what he assumes people think of him in self pity. He also feels regretful for actions he deemed necessary against Victor, his creator.
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"Learn from me . . . 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." This quote is taken from Victor talking to Walton. Victor, who throughout the book has been a man of science and knowledge, now seems to be questioning the limits of a person’s knowledge. While the Victor at the beginning of the novel would have loved to know everything, Victor now realizes that ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, it took creating a monster that destroyed everything he loved to come to this realization.
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“William, Justine, and Henry… they all died by my hands.” This quote is taken from Victor. It explains how Victor views the monster; as his responsibility. Victor thinks the monster is evil and would rather have nothing to do with it, but the monster keeps killing the people he cares about. Victor can’t help that he feels responsible, like a parent of an unruly child. He is also worried about other people in his life that he fears the monster will go after next. Victor holds his poor judgment in creating life responsible for the monster’s crimes.
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“The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” This quote was taken from the Monster to Walton. The monster recognizes that he had the potential to be great for his creator, Victor, but instead increasingly became evil, like Lucifer in the bible. In the bible, Lucifer was God’s favorite angel, but fell after being corrupted by evil. In this metaphor, however, the monster points out that the Devil at least had friends when he had fallen, and the monster has no one. The monster considers himself all alone after being outcast from his creator.
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