| Nature is vengeful | … |
| ‘black lips’, ‘shrivelled skin’ | Creature’s ugliness. Reflects horror of defiance against nature. |
| “the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror…filled my heart”. | After creating the creature, Victor realises that… |
| ‘nervous fever’ | Nature’s punishment on Victor. |
| ‘inner spirit’ | The part of nature that Victor wants to discover |
| ‘I threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair’ in reaction to the beauty of the wind’s “soothing accents” | Victor is driven to insanity by nature’s beauty. |
| “Those characters capable of deeply feeling the beauties of nature are rewarded with physical and mental health”. | Mellor on nature’s rewards |
| “loved with ardour…the scenery of external nature”, | Clerval’s love of nature |
| “a noble spirit”, ‘generosity’ and ‘health’ | Clerval is blessed by nature with…. |
| Nature is a healing force | … |
| Goes walking and ‘gains strength’ from the ‘natural incidents’ along the way | Nature is Victor’s personal healer. After William’s death he… |
| ‘maternal nature bade me weep no more’ | Nature as a soothing, maternal force |
| ‘horror and dismay’ | Victor responds to the idea of marriage to Elizabeth with… |
| Nature is healing for the creature | … |
| ‘blot on the earth” and ‘a new species’ | Victor on the creature being separate from humanity |
| ‘high and unsullied descent united with riches’ | The creature realises he does not have the two things most valued by society… |
| ‘Everywhere I see bliss from which I alone am irrevocably excluded’ | The creature is excluded from the ideal domesticity of the DeLacey family |
| a ‘pool’ | Monster feels closer to nature than humanity. The creature realises he is ‘a monster’ when he looks into… |
| the creature wants his ashes to be ‘swept to sea’ and returned to nature, where he feels he belongs | Monster feels closer to nature than humanity. When he dies … |
| Conflict between nature and humanity, which is not vengeful, but it results in pointless suffering | … |
| ‘sheets of ice’ | Walton’s ship is surrounded by… |
| ‘shall kill no albatross’ | Walton’s intentions, unlike the mariner’s, are good, as he… |
| “the ruling principle of the sublime” | Nature inflicts pointless suffering, conveying terror, which Burke identified as … |
| “sublime ecstasy” | When faced with the beauty of nature, Victor feels … |
NATURE: Frankenstein quotes
February 17, 2020