Frankenstein, or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind. |
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... remained alive ; but there was a human being within it , whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel . He was not , as the other traveller seemed to be , a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island , but an European . When ...
... remained alive ; but there was a human being within it , whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel . He was not , as the other traveller seemed to be , a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island , but an European . When ...
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... remained for several years their only child . But before I continue my narrative , I must record an incident which took place when I was four years of age . My father had a sister , whom he tenderly loved , and who had married early in ...
... remained for several years their only child . But before I continue my narrative , I must record an incident which took place when I was four years of age . My father had a sister , whom he tenderly loved , and who had married early in ...
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... remained , while the storm lasted , watching its progress with curiosity and delight . As I stood at the door , on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak , which stood about twenty yards from our house ...
... remained , while the storm lasted , watching its progress with curiosity and delight . As I stood at the door , on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak , which stood about twenty yards from our house ...
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... should em- ploy it . Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation , yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it , with all its intricacies of fibres , muscles , and veins , still remained THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 41.
... should em- ploy it . Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation , yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it , with all its intricacies of fibres , muscles , and veins , still remained THE MODERN PROMETHEUS . 41.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. of fibres , muscles , and veins , still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labor . I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself or one of simpler organization ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. of fibres , muscles , and veins , still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labor . I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself or one of simpler organization ...
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