Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
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Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing47 that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I
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The "spark" is so understated here compared to the lightning bolts utilized in the movies.
The creature reconstructs his earliest days, the initial wash of sensations, the hard learnings, and the observances of a mult-generational family in a remote cottage.
Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me. Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one; but, I fear, I have gained him only to know his value, and lose him. I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.
Mary Shelley • Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
What a strange parallel to the relationship between Victor and the creature.
I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
Mary Shelley • Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
“I expected this reception,” said the dæmon. “All men hate the wretched; how then must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty
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The creature speaks—and well at that...
Unfeeling, heartless creator! you had endowed me with perceptions and passions, and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind. But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the human form.
Mary Shelley • Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
As I looked on him, his countenance expressed the utmost extent of malice and treachery. I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and, trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, w
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Great God! if for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself for ever from my native country, and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth, than have consented to this miserable marriage. But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real
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No shit.
During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind; and if I was ever overcome by ennui, the sight of what is beautiful in nature, or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man, could always interest my heart, and communicate elasticity to my spirits. But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt
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