This document contains key quotes from Volume 2 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The quotes are all analysed and link to a page number from the copy with the following ISBN number 978-0-141-43947-1. Some of these quotes have contextual links
Frankenstein: Key Quotes: Volume 2:
Chapter 1: (p93-98)
“solitude was my only consolaton deep, dark, deathlike solitude” p93
Theme of isolaton, the alliteraton heightens the gothic setng. Can also create a parallel
between the creature and Victor (both fnd solace in isolatonn. COMPARE to p204 NLMG “Even the
solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like”.
“I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamites
forever” p94
Links to the ending in which Victor dies at sea. Water has a universal undertone of purity, so in
this sense it is as if Victor wants to escape his sins and be purifed. Religious context.
“my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderaton” p95
Contrasts to p58 where he desired the creature with “an ardour that far exceeded moderaton”
tdes have turned.
“I, not in deed, but in efect, was the true murderer” p96
Because he created the creature, he accepts the blame except he never did anything at the tme
making him cowardly
“near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnifcence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and
my ephemeral, because human, sorrows” p97
Context sublime. Nature is an escape for Victor that relieves him of his nightmarish thoughts
“The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side” p97
Symbolic of the burden he bares regarding the guilt about Justne but also creatng the creature
as it is all encompassing “on every side” i.e. he cannot escape his actons
“the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence” p97
Sublime, comparing the power of nature to the power of God we might be able to thus infer that
an act against nature is the same as an act against God
“maternal nature bade me weep no more” p98
Mother nature, nature presented as female illuminates the importance of women (which are
limitedly present throughout the noveln. Feminist perspectve illustrates that women are the
peacemakers and do not cause trouble
Chapter 2: (p99-104)
“flled me with a sublime ecstasy, that gave wings to the soul” p100
Victor remembering the feeling of the view from the mountains. Sublime context c.f.
Romantcism
“summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky, and added to the
melancholy impression” p100
Foreshadowing the creature’s arrival which is why the imagery is quite intmidatng and
overwhelming (in a negatve sensen
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