110 Quotes About Frankenstein

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly: That's not so ignorant after all. There are two monsters in my story, not one And one of them, the scientist, is indeed named Frankenstein.

Frankenstein is actually an equivalent of how a gay person feels growing up.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.

Frankenstein as the underdog. Not the monster. The villagers pursuing him are the monster.

Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe: the very accents of love were ineffectual. I was encompassed by a cloud which no benefical influence could penetrate. The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die - was but a type of me.

I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.

Nada contribuye tanto a serenar la mente como una finalidad permanente, un punto en el cual el alma pueda fijar su atención.

Yo en cambio llevaba un infierno dentro de mi, y nadie podría arrancarlo jamás