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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... wretch . I had gazed on him while un- finished ; he was ugly then ; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion , it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived . I passed the night wretchedly ...
... wretch . I had gazed on him while un- finished ; he was ugly then ; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion , it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived . I passed the night wretchedly ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. thing on which I was engaged . The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future ... wretch whom I dreaded ap- peared . Shutting the door , he approached me , and said , in a smothered voice - " You ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. thing on which I was engaged . The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future ... wretch whom I dreaded ap- peared . Shutting the door , he approached me , and said , in a smothered voice - " You ...
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... wretch as I felt pride . Justine , poor unhappy Justine , was as innocent as I , and she suffered the same charge ; she died for it ; and I am the cause of this- I murdered her . William , Justine , and Henry — they all died by my hands ...
... wretch as I felt pride . Justine , poor unhappy Justine , was as innocent as I , and she suffered the same charge ; she died for it ; and I am the cause of this- I murdered her . William , Justine , and Henry — they all died by my hands ...
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