The Creature quotes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

The Creature

There are people, but they do not know me.

Why do you not go to them?

The Creature

Because I am so ugly, and they are beautiful.

The Creature

You gave me these emotions, but you didn't tell me how to use them. Now two people are dead, because of us. Why?

Victor Frankenstein

Something at work in my soul, which I do not understand...

The Creature

What of my soul? Do I have one? Or was that a part you left out? Who were these people of which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?

Victor Frankenstein

Materials, nothing more.

The Creature

You're wrong. [picks up recorder] Do you know I knew how to play this? In which part of me did this knowledge reside? In these hands? In this mind? In this heart? And reading, and speaking. Not things learned so much as things remembered.

Victor Frankenstein

Trace memories in the brain, perhaps.

The Creature

Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You gave me life, and then left me to die. Who am I?

Victor Frankenstein

You? I don't know.

The Creature

And you think that I am evil.

Victor Frankenstein

What can I do?

The Creature

There is something I want. A friend.

Victor Frankenstein

A friend?

The Creature

A companion... a female. Someone like me, so she won't hate me.

Victor Frankenstein

Like you? Oh God, you don't know what you're asking...

The Creature

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine, and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Victor Frankenstein

Go on, kill me now!

The Creature

That is too mild. If you deny me my wedding night, I will be with you on yours!

Who are you?

The Creature

He never gave me a name. [continues to weep]

Why do you weep?

The Creature

He was my father.

Come with us!

The Creature

I am done with Man! [swims towards Frankenstein's pyre with a torch]