 ... its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered...  Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus - Page 50by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 177 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...life. What did he there ? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother ? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. Nothing in human H2 shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere... | |
 | Margaret Armour - Fiction - 1898 - 222 pages
...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer 1 I could not doubt it The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact I thought... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean 30 against a tree for support. The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. Nothing in... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
...confirmation of the facts: "Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination than I became convinced of its truth" (73). Frankenstein even seems able to anticipate the monster's intentions: Sometimes I thought that... | |
 | Herman L. Sinaiko - Philosophy - 1998 - 358 pages
...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination than...and I was forced to lean against a tree for support. (P- 73) Finally, after the pathetic and innocent Justine has been accused, tried, convicted, and executed... | |
 | Mary Shelley - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than...gloom. Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. He was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible... | |
 | Orit Kamir - Law - 2001 - 264 pages
...informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life. What did he there? . . . The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom. (Shelley 1992, 73) Later, in the village of Chamonix, where Victor has traveled from the Frankensteins'... | |
 | Charlene E. Bunnell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 226 pages
...that it will become a reality. Referring to the creature being the murderer of William, he admits that "No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth" (Frankenstein, 56). Victor's assurance in the accuracy of his thought is not motivated by a Gothic... | |
 | Peter K. Garrett - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 260 pages
...creature figures only as a momentary apparition whose physical monstrosity declares his moral deformity. "Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. He was the murderer!" (71). We could thus hardly have expected the creature's articulate reception of Frankenstein. His mere... | |
 | James Mulvihill - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 300 pages
...is concerned. "I could not doubt it," he says of his brief glimpse of the Creature outside Geneva. "The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact" (56). This, then, is Victor's frame of mind when the Creature later makes his case to him in classic... | |
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