Key quotations — Frankenstein — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Frankenstein, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'It was on a dreary night of November', 'breathless horror and disgust filled my heart', 'how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge', 'I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel', 'I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend', 'I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me', 'I am malicious because I am miserable', 'I shall be with you on your wedding-night' and 'Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition'.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
