Victor Frankenstein
I have done something - so terrible, so evil, that I am frightened that if I tell you the truth, that I will lose you.
Elizabeth
You'll lose me if you don't.
Victor Frankenstein
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Captain Robert Walton Who are you?
The Creature He never gave me a name. [continues to weep]
Captain Robert Walton Why do you weep?
The Creature He was my father.
Captain Robert Walton Come with us!
The Creature I am done with Man! [swims towards Frankenstein's pyre with a torch]
I busied myself to think of a story — which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature — and awaken thrilling horror. One to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.
-Opening line taken from the introduction of the novel
-Opening line taken from the introduction of the novel
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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