Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
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About the book
A young Swiss student, Victor Frankenstein, becomes obsessed with discovering the secret of life and builds a living being from lifeless matter. Horrified by what he has made, he abandons it, and the intelligent, lonely creature must find its own way in a world that recoils from it. Often called the first science fiction novel, it asks what creators owe the things they create.
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Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make…
Life and death appeared to me 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 creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of…
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.