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Frankenstein Monster Words
Feeling words of the Frankenstein monster
For Frankenstein, his noble creator
From:
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
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I shall relate events
that impressed me with feelings which,
from what I had been, have made me what I am.
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No father had watched my infant days,
no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses;
or if they had,
all my past life was now a blot,
a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.
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At first I started back,
unable to believe that it was indeed
I
who was reflected in the mirror;
and when I became fully convinced that
I
was in reality the monster that I am,
I
was filled with the bitterest
sensations of despondence and mortification.
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I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch;
I
knew, and could distinguish, nothing;
but feeling pain invade me on all sides,
I
sat down and wept.
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Why did you form a monster so hideous
that even you turned from me in disgust ?
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Unfeeling, heartless creator !
You had endowed me with perceptions and passions
and then cast me abroad an object
for the scorn and horror of mankind.
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You, my creator, abhor me;
what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures,
who owe me nothing ?
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Believe me, Frankenstein,
I was benevolent;
my soul glowed with love and humanity;
but am I not alone, miserably alone ?
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Everywhere I see bliss,
from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
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I resolved to fly far from the scene of my misfortunes;
but to me, hated and despised,
every country must be equally horrible.
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Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth,
from which all men fled
and whom all men disowned ?
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What was I ?
The question again recurred,
to be answered only with groans.
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I was benevolent and good;
misery made me a fiend.
Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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My spirits were elevated
by the enchanting appearance of nature;
the past was blotted from my memory,
the present was tranquil, and the future gilded
by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.
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Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks,
and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness
towards the blessed sun,
which bestowed such joy upon me.
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I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure,
that had long appeared dead, revive within me.
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I dared not think that they would turn them
from me with disdain and horror.
"
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I perceived that the words they spoke
sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness,
in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
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I heard of the division of property,
of immense wealth and squalid poverty,
of rank, descent, and noble blood.
"
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Was man, indeed,
at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent,
yet so vicious and base ?
"
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I learned that the possessions most esteemed
by your fellow creatures were high
and unsullied descent united with riches.
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I can hardly describe to you
the effect of these books.
They produced in me
an infinity of new images and feelings,
that sometimes raised me to ecstasy,
but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.
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I cannot describe to you
the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me;
I tried to dispel them,
but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
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Increase of knowledge
only discovered to me more clearly
what a wretched outcast I was.
"
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I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator.
But where was mine ?
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Satan had his companions,
fellow devils, to admire and encourage him,
but I am solitary and abhorred.
"
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I have good dispositions ;
my life has been hitherto harmless
and in some degree beneficial ;
but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes,
and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend,
they behold only a detestable monster.
"
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But now
that virtue has become to me a shadow,
and that happiness and affection
are turned into bitter and loathing despair,
in what should I seek for sympathy ?
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You can blast my other passions,
but revenge remains--revenge,
henceforth dearer than light or food !
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Yet you, my creator,
detest and spurn me,
thy creature to whom thou art bound
by ties only dissoluble
by the annihilation of one of us.
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I am alone and miserable;
man will not associate with me;
but one as deformed and horrible as myself
would not deny herself to me.
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My vices are the children
of a forced solitude that I abhor,
and my virtues will necessarily arise
when I live in communion with an equal.
I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being
and become linked to the chain of existence and events
from which I am now excluded.
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Inflamed by pain,
I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.
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Cursed, cursed creator!
Why did I live ?
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I will work at your destruction,
nor finish until I desolate your heart,
so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.
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I will revenge my injuries;
if I cannot inspire love,
I will cause fear,
and chiefly towards you my archenemy,
because my creator,
do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
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Remember that I have power;
you believe yourself miserable,
but I can make you so wretched
that the light of day will be hateful to you.
You are my creator,
but I am your master;
obey !
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I knew that I was preparing for myself
a deadly torture,
but I was the slave, not the master,
of an impulse
which I detested yet could not disobey.
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My spirit will sleep in peace,
or if it thinks,
it will not surely think thus .
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