| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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:... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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