A.P. English Lit – Mr. Rose Name: < type name here >
FRANKENSTEIN eWORKSHEET – #1 Significant Quotations from Chapters 1-6
Directions: The purpose of this worksheet is to reinforce what you’ve already read and what we’ve discussed in class. Complete each response fully and thoughtfully. Identify the speaker and the context and then explain the meaning and significance of the quotation
Chapter III 1. “You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good God! In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed and are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
2. “The ancient teachers of this science [chemistry] promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
Chapter IV
3. “Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm. Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
4. “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
Chapter V 5. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
6. "Like one who, on a lonely road who, / Doth walk in fear and dread, / And, having once turned round, walks on, / And turns no more his head; / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread." SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
Chapter VI 7. “What could I do? He meant to please, and he tormented me. I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death. I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >
8. “D--n the fellow! Why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstript us all. Ay, stare if you please; but it is nevertheless true. A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance.” SPEAKER: < highlight this and type response here > CONTEXT: < highlight this and type response here >
MEANING: < highlight this and type response here >