Chapter 15 Quotes — Frankenstein

Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.

Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.

My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone.

Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different from mine in every other respect.

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.

I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I was a listener.

'Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?'

Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick.

The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.