He sleeps, but he is awakened; he opens his eyes, behold, the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains, and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes. I opened mine in terror.
-- Mary Shelley (chapter 1)

Importance: Mary Shelley has this vision of Victor Frankenstein creating his monster and then awakens. This moment captures the origin of her novel Frankenstein in Frankissstein: A Love Story. The moment captures Victor Frankenstein's terror over having created his monster and Mary Shelley's terror.

He will compose a man, larger than life, and make him live. I will use electricity. Storm, Spark, Lightning. I will rod him with fire like Prometheus. He will steal life from the gods.
-- Mary Shelley (chapter 3)

Importance: After considering the practice of galvanism, Mary Shelley decides to have Victor Frankenstein animate his monster with electricity in this passage. The passage connects to a later section of the book in which Victor Stein, the contemporary...