Frankenstein Quotes - Religion PDF

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A collection of religious quotes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Collected from the Wordsworth Classics edition of the novel, published in 1993....

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‘It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn […]’ ‘[…] – the miserable monster whom I had created.’ ‘Great God!’ ‘Wretched daemon!’ ‘You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature.’ ‘cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw light!’ ‘[…] it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandaemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.’ ‘godlike science.’ ‘[…] it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.’ ‘She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion, and taught her to aspire to the higher powers of intellect, and an independence spirit, forbidden to the female followers of Mahomet.’ The prospect of marrying a Christian, and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society, was enchanting to her.’ ‘He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian.’ ‘[…] God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.’ ‘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 aspect.’ ‘God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours…’ ‘Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.’ ‘I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me: and, in the bitterness of my heart, I cursed him.’ ‘by the sun, and by the sky of Heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.’ ‘Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy?’ ‘You may give up on your purpose, but mine were assigned to me by Heaven, I dare not.’ ‘[…] the fallen angel became a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.’...