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" I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. "
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus - Page 117
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1922 - 332 pages
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The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance

Edith Birkhead - English fiction - 1921 - 262 pages
...Everywhere I see bliss from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good ; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." He describes how his physical ugliness repels human beings, who fail to realise his benevolent intentions....
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Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

Langdon Winner - Technology & Engineering - 1978 - 400 pages
...too thick and selfinterested to comprehend the message. "Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! . . . Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community...our strength in a fight, in which one must fall."" Despite this stream of invective, the creature continues to reason with Victor. It soon becomes apparent...
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The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel

George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 368 pages
...Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous" (p. 100). When we learn of the Monster's self-education — and particularly his three master-texts:...
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Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." 20 "Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Begone,...
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Creature and Creator

Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
..."Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous" (95-96). Longing for some form of love, the monster reaches out for any human being he sees, and of...
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William Godwin

Peter H. Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 518 pages
...solitude which corrupt him. He exclaims to his creator Frankenstein: ‘I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.” At the same time, Mary recreates the nightmare world of Caleb Williams with its endless series of flights...
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The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other ...

Gerald James Holton - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 372 pages
...abandonment of his creator's responsibility for his own work. "I was benevolent and good; misery had made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous." With this plea the monster persuades his maker to go back into the laboratory and put together a second...
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A World of Difference

Barbara Johnson - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 252 pages
..."I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head." [Frankenstein:] "Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me." [Monster places his hands before Frankenstein's eyes:] "Thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor....
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Boris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television ...

Scott Allen Nollen - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 492 pages
...Everywhere I see bliss, from which 1 alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. In the novel, the Monster, not another character such as Pretorius, devises the idea for a mate. Informing...
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Popular Culture Genres: Theories and Texts

Arthur Asa Berger - Social Science - 1992 - 196 pages
...Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. (1967, p. 84) and his definition of himself as "monster" is one that society places upon him and which,...
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