Responsibility and guilt

Quote

Character

Chapter

“I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes”

Victor

Letter IV

“I, the creator”

Victor

Volume One, Chapter VII

“could he have... betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?”

Victor

Volume One, Chapter VIII

“The first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts”

Victor

Volume One, Chapter VIII

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than...the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“I was seized by remorse and guilt”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“There was always scope for fear, so long as anything I loved remained behind”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“I had been the author of unalterable evils”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“I not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter I

“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter II

“[The Creature was] wantonly bestowed [by Victor]”

The Creature

Volume Two, Chapter VIII

“Did I not as his maker, owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow”

Victor

Volume Two, Chapter IX

“Sleep did not afford me respite from thought and misery”

Victor

Volume Three, Chapter III

“Memory bought madness with it”