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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Paper

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

A romantic life full of pain and abandonment could only be given the monstrous form of "Frankenstein." Mary Shelley's life gave birth to an imaginary victim full of misery and loneliness and placed him as the protagonist of one of her most famous and greatest work of art. As most people would assume he is not just a fictional character but in fact a creature who desperately demonstrates Shelley's tragedies and loss during the age of "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
Since Mary Shelley's birth there have been numerous loss's in her life. One extremely dominating event in Shelley's life was the death of her mother. Only ten days after Shelley's birth, Mary Wollstonecraft, ...

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spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on." He claims he is the victim of his wrongdoing and affirms: "You, who call Frankenstein your friend, seem to have a knowledge of my crimes and his misfortunes. But in detail which he gave you of them, he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured, wasting in impotent passions." He then goes on to express his feelings of guilt and hideousness because after all the beast is supersensitive.
"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 love and
admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him
even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies,
white and cold in death. You hate me; but your
abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard
myself. I look on the hands which ...

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Added: 2/18/2005 09:13:02 PM
Category: Book Reports
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