Victor Frankenstein - Quotations
English Lit: Edexcel A Level Frankenstein, topic 7.1.2
Quotations About Victor Frankenstein
Victor had a charmed, loving childhood which makes his rejection of his progeny, the Monster, even more ironic.
Victor's childhood
- "I was guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me."
- "For a long time I was their only care."
Love of knowledge
- "Deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge."
- His obsession for knowledge of "the secrets of heaven and earth that I desire to learn" leads him into committing a sin against nature, creating and abandoning the Monster.
Victim?
- Victor sees himself as the victim of fate ("unparalleled misfortunes") and circumstance ("no creature had ever been as miserable as I was.")
Victor's aim
- Victor begins with a worthy aim: "if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!"
- However, he is apparently corrupted by his desires, emphasised by the almost sexual language accorded to his desire to "penetrate into the recesses of nature."
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What does Victor "desire to learn"?