Frankenstein Quotations Quiz

Who said this: “I now hasten to the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am” (Shelley 101).

Who said this: “Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you” (Shelley 152).

Who said this: “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent cold and wet, in the open air. But I did not feel the inconvenience of weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair (Shelley 61).

Who said this: “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and helpless...You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more (Shelley 204).

Who said this: “My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion” (Shelley 185).

Who said this: “Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand” (Shelley 105).

Who said this: “Liberty, however, had been a useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge...I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head” (Shelley 182).

Who said this: “My daily vows rose for revenge - a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured” (Shelley 126).