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My rage is unspeakable.

“My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. My rage is unspeakable.” (Shelley 130).

This passage draws a distinct and obvious connection between Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Both allow their revenge to “be a vice,” and both are filled with “unspeakable” rage at the actions of the other. They allow this fury to be their sole motivating factor, and think of nothing but revenge.

Laudanum

“I had been in the custom of taking every night a small quantity of laudanum; for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest necessary for the preservation of life.” (Shelley 118).

Laudanum was an opiate that was popular during the Victorian era; it was highly addictive and a strong painkiller. (http://www.nycgoth.com/more/laudanum/) It would not have been uncommon for Frankenstein to take this drug during this time period.

Maladie du pays

“Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness; and though, with melancholy delight, of my beloved cousin; or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that has been so dear to me in early childhood.” (Shelley 117).

Maladie du pays means, in French, homesickness. (http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/V3notes/maladie.html)
Victor here misses his childhood home and its beautiful countryside, his “cousin” Elizabeth, and his old, carefree way of life, before the monster was made.

“The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour:--

‘The sounding cataract

Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

Their colours and their forms, were then to him

An appetite; a feeling, and a love,

That had no need of a remoter charm,

By thought supplied, or any interest

Unborrow’d from the eye.’” (Shelley 96).

These lines are taken from William Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey,” and are used to add description to the memory of Victor’s friend Henry Clerval and his love for nature. This section of the extensive poem on the beauty of Tintern Abbey itself and nature serves to describe adequately the way Clerval felt toward nature—that it was unequivocally beautiful. (http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html)

This you alone can do.

“You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.” (Shelley 87).

This is yet another comparison of Frankenstein to god. Supposedly, when god created Adam, he realized that man must have a companion, and in turn created Eve. In this story, since he was the creator of man, only he could create a companion, a woman. This passage says the same about Frankenstein; since he created this monster, only he could make it a mate.

Syndic

“My papa is a Syndic—he is M. Frankenstein—he will punish you.” (Shelley 86).

A syndic, in much of Europe, means a government official, perhaps a judge. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/syndic) William saying that his father is a Syndic gives the Frankenstein family prestige, wealth, and trustworthiness, since the father is a justice of the peace. On the other hand, the monster, living his life in despair, poverty, and causing destruction, has none of these.