Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the... Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley - Page 231by Ximena Gallardo C., Jason Smith - 2004 - 241 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Werner Senn - American literature - 1996 - 294 pages
...direct consequence of an attachment between the two monsters would be that "a race of devils [. . .] be propagated upon the earth, who might make the very...of man a condition precarious and full of terror" (165, my emphasis). Moreover, rational, European mothers are present in Frankenstein and contrast with... | |
| Howard L. Malchow - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 364 pages
...perceptions of the actual role of those of mixed race in the empire after mid-century. Shadows . .. and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse... | |
| Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra - Social Science - 1997 - 494 pages
...even more disquieting thought strikes Victor. What if the two mate and have children? "A race of evils would be propagated upon the earth who might make...species of man a condition precarious and full of terror."12 "I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had... | |
| George J. Annas - Law - 1997 - 308 pages
...cannot give her life for fear that she and the monster might propagate a "race of devils" that would "make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror." Victor consequently tears the female's body apart while the monster looks on, letting out a "howl of... | |
| Laura C. Berry - Literary Criticism - 224 pages
..."one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth...of man a condition precarious and full of terror" (210). The Monster's hunger for companionship is here imagined as a "thirst" for reproduction. Frankenstein... | |
| Neil Cornwell - Fantasy in literature - 1999 - 306 pages
...'one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children. and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth,...of man a condition precarious and full of terror' (p. 121). Frankenstein anticipates The Salamander most pointedly in the relationship between Victor... | |
| Barbara Tepa Lupack - American fiction - 1999 - 352 pages
.... one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth,...of man a condition precarious and full of terror" (165). It is obvious that the "science" of creating life in both Frankenstein films is not taken seriously.... | |
| Ronald Chrisley, Sander Begeer - Computers - 2000 - 550 pages
...those sympathies for which the demon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be 145 propagated upon the earth who might make the very...of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? With the monster... | |
| Mary Shelley - Fiction - 2001 - 228 pages
...yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth,...of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before... | |
| Julia V. Douthwaite - Education - 2002 - 330 pages
...of his own species. Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world ... a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth,...of man a condition precarious and full of terror. (114) This list recalls contemporary medical theories of the female body, such as the abnormal passions... | |
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