All 21 Uses of
vengeance
in
Frankenstein
- Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.†
Chpt 7 *
- And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?†
Chpt 10
- The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.†
Chpt 10
- He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding.†
Chpt 14
- Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind.†
Chpt 16
- I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.†
Chpt 18
- He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.†
Chpt 19
- And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work.†
Chpt 24
- Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by frenzy and have destroyed my miserable existence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance.†
Chpt 24
- At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the daemon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.†
Chpt 24
- Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, miserable fiend, to torture and death.†
Chpt 24
- Yet at the idea that the fiend should live and be triumphant, my rage and vengeance returned, and like a mighty tide, overwhelmed every other feeling.†
Chpt 24
- If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and satisfy my vengeance in his death.†
Chpt 24
- Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live—swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes.†
Chpt 24
- Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.†
Chpt 24
- I am weak, but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength.†
Chpt 24
- He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.†
Chpt 24
- If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.†
Chpt 24
- But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.†
Chpt 24
- If he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance.†
Chpt 24
- But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)