“The leaves that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade thanContinue reading “RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)”
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RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me in ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creatorContinue reading “RKS Literature: What Drives Frankenstein to Create His Monster? (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)
“The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavored to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition in hisContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Miserable Details of Commerce (Mary Shelley)”
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