Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus: With Connections by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
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I got this online on the Discover Books website. I saw inside and it looks like a student, maybe a young man, underlined and made annotations for a book assignment. I read this back in high school, I think in my senior year there.
“Now all was blasted: instead of that serenity of conscience, which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures, such as no language can describe” (Shelley Frankenstein 77).
61 in my personal physical copy. January 28, 2017.
“‘Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death—a state which I feared yet did not understand. I admired virtue and good feelings, and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers; but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of becoming one among my fellows. The gentle words of Agatha, and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian, were not for me. The mild exhortations of the old man, and the lively conversation of the loved Felix, were not for me. Miserable, unhappy wretch!” (Shelley 108 Frankenstein).
85 in my personal physical copy. February 5, 2017.
Frankenstein Thought: 1st dream w “kiss of death" was after the monster was awakened. Victor had a dream with Elizabeth and he kissed her. She turned into his dead mother. Foreshadowing the death of the rest of his family. He did this to himself. March 20, 2017.
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