 His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and...  Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus - Page 205by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1888 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...neighborhood of man, and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy ; my life will...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations ; I thought, that, as I could not... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 554 pages
...consent." man, and dwell as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy ! my life will...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations : I thought, that, as I could not... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...consent." man, and dwell as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy ! my life will...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations : I thought, that, as I could not... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...neighbourhood of man, and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy; my life will flow quietly 10 away, and, in my dying moments, I shall not curse my maker." His words had a strange effect upon... | |
 | Judith Halberstam - Medical - 1995 - 236 pages
...feel compassion and "a wish to console him" (147) but the sight of the monster still provokes horror: "when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of hatred and horror."18 This sequence plays out what is, in the context of the novel, a by... | |
 | Mary Shelley - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...neighbourhood of man, and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy! My life will...talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought, that as I could not sympathise... | |
 | Julia V. Douthwaite - Education - 2002 - 338 pages
...the creature's voice, Frankenstein recalls: "His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassioned him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred" (99). Is aesthetics alone to blame for this repulsion? Perhaps not.... | |
 | Jerome Meckier - Nature - 2002 - 324 pages
...Unfortunately, Frankenstein's monster fails to placate his maker: "I compassionated him," Victor says, "... but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred" (F, 126). Similarly, Pip reports of Magwitch that "every hour . . .... | |
 | Peter K. Garrett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 260 pages
...yet it also produces an involuntary repulsion with which his awakened sense of duty must struggle. "I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to...talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought, that as I could not sympathize... | |
 | Paul Youngquist - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...when his creature hunts him down to demand his human due, a companion. Victor's response is revealing: "His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated...a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him ... my feelings were altered to horror and hatred" (143). The monster's monstrosity undoes all humanity.... | |
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