 Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with contumely? Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?  Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus - Page 247by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...for ever ardent and craving ; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this ? Am I to be thought the only...when all human kind sinned against me? Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child? Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate... | |
 | Margaret Armour - Fiction - 1898 - 222 pages
...for ever ardent and craving ; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only...child? Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings II, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? 20 Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human...virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and the aban- 25 doned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils... | |
 | Michael Macovski - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 244 pages
...initiates a series of interrogative exchanges that terminate in his final crescendo of queries: "Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only...rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?" (219). Soon after this, all questions stop, and the monster abandons his quest. 29. Such dialogic exchanges... | |
 | David Del Principe - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 196 pages
...Gothic in the Works of Ugo Tarchetti I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal when all human kind sinned against me? ... I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept, and grasped... | |
 | Ian Bent - Music - 1996 - 260 pages
...thoughts of honor and devotion ... still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with contumely?... | |
 | William Dean Brewer - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 260 pages
...nor do I find it blameable" (160). And the monster considers himself as much a victim as a criminal: "Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?" (163). 81 They suggest that since they are the products of their social and environmental conditioning,... | |
 | Peter K. Garrett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 260 pages
...were ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and still I was spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? (219) 30 In the revised version, Frankenstein agrees with Walton on the need for friendship: "We are... | |
 | Andrew Milner - Canon (Literature) - 2005 - 356 pages
...for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only...criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?.... Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice. (M.Shelley 1980: 221-2) Why this sympathy... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Accelerated readers - 2007 - 236 pages
...still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal when all humankind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix who drove...not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the savior of his child? Nay, these are virtuous and immaculate beings! I, the miserable and the abandoned,... | |
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