“But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of loveContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Final Words of Frankenstein’s Creation (Mary Shelley)”
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RKS Literature: How Can Frankenstein’s Creation Cease His Threats to Humanity?
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit this world and its miseries forever. At length I wandered through these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify. We may notContinue reading “RKS Literature: How Can Frankenstein’s Creation Cease His Threats to Humanity?”
RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Declares War on Humanity (Mary Shelley)
“I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the grass in the sick impotence of despair. There was none amongst the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, andContinue reading “RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Declares War on Humanity (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Wretched, Miserable and Alone (Mary Shelley)
“Like Adam, I was apparently united by no link to any other being in existence; but his state was far different than mine in every other respect. He had come forward from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converseContinue reading “RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Wretched, Miserable and Alone (Mary Shelley)”
RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Laments His Deformity (Mary Shelley)
“I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers-their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool. At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror: and when I became fully convinced that I wasContinue reading “RKS Literature: Frankenstein’s Creation Laments His Deformity (Mary Shelley)”
RKS LITERATURE: Frankenstein Verging on a Mental Breakdown (Mary Shelley)
“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)”
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)”
RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)
“No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingledContinue reading “RKS Literature: Parents as Creators Not Tyrants (Mary Shelley)”
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