The Monster Quotes in Frankenstein

Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself for ever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage.

I had unchained an enemy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to revel in their groans.

A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.

Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe—gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions.

He asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the dæmon, as he called him, had pursued.

Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.

"Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "_he_ can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!"

Could the dæmon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

When I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred.