Quotes for Letters 1-4
Quotes for Walton’s Loneliness:
1. “But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend. Margaret: when I am glowing in the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection.” (Shelley, Frankenstein pg. 2)
2. “I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.” (Shelley, Frankenstein pg. 3)
Quotes for Walton’s Fascination With New Knowledge:
1. “I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking. It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half a pleasurable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 5)
2. “I am practically industrious-painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labor - but besides this there is a love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 5)
Quotes for Walton’s Nature Fascination
1. “I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, never before imprinted by the foot of man.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 2)
2. “This expedition has been my favourite dream of my early years. I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 2).
1. “But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend. Margaret: when I am glowing in the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection.” (Shelley, Frankenstein pg. 2)
2. “I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.” (Shelley, Frankenstein pg. 3)
Quotes for Walton’s Fascination With New Knowledge:
1. “I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking. It is impossible to communicate to you a conception of the trembling sensation, half a pleasurable and half fearful, with which I am preparing to depart.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 5)
2. “I am practically industrious-painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labor - but besides this there is a love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 5)
Quotes for Walton’s Nature Fascination
1. “I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, never before imprinted by the foot of man.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 2)
2. “This expedition has been my favourite dream of my early years. I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.” (Shelley, Frankenstein, pg. 2).
Chapters 4-5
Quote for Frankenstein Pushing Into Isolation
“ In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of a house, separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation;my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.” (Frankenstein, Mary Shelly, Pg. 24)
“ In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of a house, separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation;my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.” (Frankenstein, Mary Shelly, Pg. 24)