Important Quotations Explained
1. I
saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student
of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.
I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on
the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir
with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely
frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous
mechanism of the Creator of the world.
2. Did
I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
3. What
may not be expected in a country of eternal light?
4. So
much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far
more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will
pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world
the deepest mysteries of creation.
5. I,
the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at,
and kicked, and trampled on.
