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The Creature

Quote Character Chapter
“Shape of man...but apparently of gigantic stature” Walton Letter IV
“I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open... breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” Victor Volume One, Chapter V
“No mortal could support the horror of that countenance” Victor Volume One, Chapter V
“Malice of the fiend” Victor Volume Two, Chapter I
“I alone am irrevocably excluded” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter II
“When [the De Laceys] were unhappy; I felt depressed. When [they] rejoiced I sympathised in their joys” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter IV
“I was not even of the same nature as man” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter V
“Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth...whom all men disowned?” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter V
”Hateful day when I received life!” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter VII
“Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter VII
“I declared everlasting war against the species...against him who formed me” The Creature Volume Two, Chapter VIII
“you are my creator, but I am your master” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter II
“I am fearless, and therefore powerful” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter II
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy...when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred it did not endure the violence of the change” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter VII
“Evil thenceforth became my good” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter VII
“Crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter VII
“I was the slave not the master of an impulse which I detested” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter VII
“Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine” The Creature Volume Three, Chapter VII

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