1/11/2024 0 Comments Frankenstein conflict quotes![]() ![]() In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body. To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. ![]() Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable. ![]() I revolved these circumstances in my mind and determined thenceforth to apply myself more particularly to those branches of natural philosophy which relate to physiology. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. (20.One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. The prospect did not move me to fear yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle. ![]() In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. And then I thought again of his words - "I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT." That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfillment of my destiny. I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife? But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland. I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me. I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean. All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears. ![]()
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