Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing God and attempting the engineering of life. |
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Page 51
... destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix , then that study is certainly ... destroyed . But I forget that I am moralising in the most interesting part of my tale ; and your looks remind me to ...
... destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix , then that study is certainly ... destroyed . But I forget that I am moralising in the most interesting part of my tale ; and your looks remind me to ...
Page 191
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. " You have destroyed the work which you began ; what is it that you intend ? Do you dare ... destroy my hopes ? Begone ! I do break my promise ; never will I create an- other like yourself , equal in deformity ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. " You have destroyed the work which you began ; what is it that you intend ? Do you dare ... destroy my hopes ? Begone ! I do break my promise ; never will I create an- other like yourself , equal in deformity ...
Page 254
... destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst . Alas ! he is cold , he cannot an- swer me . His voice seemed suffocated ; and my first impulses , which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend , in destroying ...
... destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst . Alas ! he is cold , he cannot an- swer me . His voice seemed suffocated ; and my first impulses , which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend , in destroying ...
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