The Gay Legacy of Frankenste

THE GAY LEGACY OF FRANKENSTE
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FRANKENSTE, OR THE MORN PROMETHS (CHAP. 7)MARY SHELLEYTRACK 13 ON FRANKENSTE; OR, THE MORN PROMETHS 1 VIEWER10.6K VIEWS19 CONTRIBUTORSFRANKENSTE, OR THE MORN PROMETHS (CHAP. 7) LYRICS ON MY RETURN, I FOUND THE FOLLOWG LETTER OM MY FATHER:—"MY AR VICTOR, "YOU HAVE PROBABLY WAED IMPATIENTLY FOR A LETTER TO FIX THE DATE OF YOUR RETURN TO ; AND I WAS AT FIRST TEMPTED TO WRE ONLY A FEW L, MERELY MENTNG THE DAY ON WHICH I SHOULD EXPECT YOU. BUT THAT WOULD BE A CEL KDNS, AND I DARE NOT DO . WHAT WOULD BE YOUR SURPRISE, MY SON, WHEN YOU EXPECTED A HAPPY AND GLAD WELE, TO BEHOLD, ON THE NTRARY, TEARS AND WRETCHEDNS? AND HOW, VICTOR, N I RELATE OUR MISFORTUNE? ABSENCE NNOT HAVE RENRED YOU LLO TO OUR JOYS AND GRIEFS; AND HOW SHALL I FLICT PA ON MY LONG ABSENT SON? I WISH TO PREPARE YOU FOR THE WOEFUL NEWS, BUT I KNOW IS IMPOSSIBLE; EVEN NOW YOUR EYE SKIMS OVER THE PAGE TO SEEK THE WORDS WHICH ARE TO NVEY TO YOU THE HORRIBLE TIDGS. "WILLIAM IS AD!—THAT SWEET CHILD, WHOSE S LIGHTED AND WARMED MY HEART, WHO WAS SO GENTLE, YET SO GAY! VICTOR, HE IS MURRED! "I WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO NSOLE YOU; BUT WILL SIMPLY RELATE THE CIRCUMSTANC OF THE TRANSACTN. "LAST THURSDAY (MAY 7TH), I, MY NIECE, AND YOUR TWO BROTHERS, WENT TO WALK PLAPALAIS. THE EVENG WAS WARM AND SERENE, AND WE PROLONGED OUR WALK FARTHER THAN UAL. IT WAS ALREADY DK BEFORE WE THOUGHT OF RETURNG; AND THEN WE DISVERED THAT WILLIAM AND ERNT, WHO HAD GONE ON BEFORE, WERE NOT TO BE FOUND. WE ACRDGLY RTED ON A SEAT UNTIL THEY SHOULD RETURN. PRENTLY ERNT ME, AND ENQUIRED IF WE HAD SEEN HIS BROTHER; HE SAID, THAT HE HAD BEEN PLAYG WH HIM, THAT WILLIAM HAD N AWAY TO HI HIMSELF, AND THAT HE VALY SOUGHT FOR HIM, AND AFTERWARDS WAED FOR A LONG TIME, BUT THAT HE DID NOT RETURN. "THIS ACUNT RATHER ALARMED , AND WE NTUED TO SEARCH FOR HIM UNTIL NIGHT FELL, WHEN ELIZABETH NJECTURED THAT HE MIGHT HAVE RETURNED TO THE HOE. HE WAS NOT THERE. WE RETURNED AGA, WH TORCH; FOR I ULD NOT RT, WHEN I THOUGHT THAT MY SWEET BOY HAD LOST HIMSELF, AND WAS EXPOSED TO ALL THE DAMPS AND WS OF NIGHT; ELIZABETH ALSO SUFFERED EXTREME ANGUISH. ABOUT FIVE THE MORNG I DISVERED MY LOVELY BOY, WHOM THE NIGHT BEFORE I HAD SEEN BLOOMG AND ACTIVE HEALTH, STRETCHED ON THE GRASS LIVID AND MOTNLS; THE PRT OF THE MURR'S FGER WAS ON HIS NECK. "HE WAS NVEYED HOME, AND THE ANGUISH THAT WAS VISIBLE MY UNTENANCE BETRAYED THE SECRET TO ELIZABETH. SHE WAS VERY EARNT TO SEE THE RPSE. AT FIRST I ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT HER BUT SHE PERSISTED, AND ENTERG THE ROOM WHERE LAY, HASTILY EXAMED THE NECK OF THE VICTIM, AND CLASPG HER HANDS EXCLAIMED, 'O GOD! I HAVE MURRED MY DARLG CHILD!' "SHE FATED, AND WAS RTORED WH EXTREME DIFFICULTY. WHEN SHE AGA LIVED, WAS ONLY TO WEEP AND SIGH. SHE TOLD ME, THAT THAT SAME EVENG WILLIAM HAD TEASED HER TO LET HIM WEAR A VERY VALUABLE MIATURE THAT SHE POSSSED OF YOUR MOTHER. THIS PICTURE IS GONE, AND WAS DOUBTLS THE TEMPTATN WHICH URGED THE MURRER TO THE ED. WE HAVE NO TRACE OF HIM AT PRENT, ALTHOUGH OUR EXERTNS TO DISVER HIM ARE UNREMTED; BUT THEY WILL NOT RTORE MY BELOVED WILLIAM! "COME, ART VICTOR; YOU ALONE N NSOLE ELIZABETH. SHE WEEPS NTUALLY, AND ACC HERSELF UNJTLY AS THE E OF HIS ATH; HER WORDS PIERCE MY HEART. WE ARE ALL UNHAPPY; BUT WILL NOT THAT BE AN ADDNAL MOTIVE FOR YOU, MY SON, TO RETURN AND BE OUR FORTER? YOUR AR MOTHER! ALAS, VICTOR! I NOW SAY, THANK GOD SHE DID NOT LIVE TO WNS THE CEL, MISERABLE ATH OF HER YOUNGT DARLG! "COME, VICTOR; NOT BROODG THOUGHTS OF VENGEANCE AGAST THE ASSASS, BUT WH FEELGS OF PEACE AND GENTLENS, THAT WILL HEAL, STEAD OF FTERG, THE WOUNDS OF OUR MDS. ENTER THE HOE OF MOURNG, MY IEND, BUT WH KDNS AND AFFECTN FOR THOSE WHO LOVE YOU, AND NOT WH HATRED FOR YOUR ENEMI."YOUR AFFECTNATE AND AFFLICTED FATHER, "ALPHONSE FRANKENSTE."GENEVA, MAY 12TH, 17—." CLERVAL, WHO HAD WATCHED MY UNTENANCE AS I READ THIS LETTER, WAS SURPRISED TO OBSERVE THE SPAIR THAT SUCCEED THE JOY I AT FIRST EXPRSED ON RECEIVG NEW OM MY IENDS. I THREW THE LETTER ON THE TABLE, AND VERED MY FACE WH MY HANDS. "MY AR FRANKENSTE," EXCLAIMED HENRY, WHEN HE PERCEIVED ME WEEP WH BTERNS, "ARE YOU ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY? MY AR IEND, WHAT HAS HAPPENED?" I MOTNED HIM TO TAKE UP THE LETTER, WHILE I WALKED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM THE EXTREMT AGATN. TEARS ALSO GHED OM THE EY OF CLERVAL, AS HE READ THE ACUNT OF MY MISFORTUNE. "I N OFFER YOU NO NSOLATN, MY IEND," SAID HE; "YOUR DISASTER IS IRREPARABLE. WHAT DO YOU TEND TO DO?" "TO GO STANTLY TO GENEVA: E WH ME, HENRY, TO ORR THE HORS." DURG OUR WALK, CLERVAL ENAVOURED TO SAY A FEW WORDS OF NSOLATN; HE ULD ONLY EXPRS HIS HEARTFELT SYMPATHY. "POOR WILLIAM!" SAID HE, "AR LOVELY CHILD, HE NOW SLEEPS WH HIS ANGEL MOTHER! WHO THAT HAD SEEN HIM BRIGHT AND JOYO HIS YOUNG BETY, BUT MT WEEP OVER HIS UNTIMELY LOSS! TO DIE SO MISERABLY; TO FEEL THE MURRER'S GRASP! HOW MUCH MORE A MURRED THAT ULD STROY RADIANT NOCENCE! POOR LTLE FELLOW! ONE ONLY NSOLATN HAVE WE; HIS IENDS MOURN AND WEEP, BUT HE IS AT RT. THE PANG IS OVER, HIS SUFFERGS ARE AT AN END FOR EVER. A SOD VERS HIS GENTLE FORM, AND HE KNOWS NO PA. HE N NO LONGER BE A SUBJECT FOR PY; WE MT RERVE THAT FOR HIS MISERABLE SURVIVORS." CLERVAL SPOKE TH AS WE HURRIED THROUGH THE STREETS; THE WORDS IMPRSED THEMSELV ON MY MD AND I REMEMBERED THEM AFTERWARDS SOLU. BUT NOW, AS SOON AS THE HORS ARRIVED, I HURRIED TO A BRLET, AND BA FAREWELL TO MY IEND. MY JOURNEY WAS VERY MELANCHOLY. AT FIRST I WISHED TO HURRY ON, FOR I LONGED TO NSOLE AND SYMPATHISE WH MY LOVED AND SORROWG IENDS; BUT WHEN I DREW NEAR MY NATIVE TOWN, I SLACKENED MY PROGRS. I ULD HARDLY STA THE MULTU OF FEELGS THAT CROWD TO MY MD. I PASSED THROUGH SCEN FAIAR TO MY YOUTH, BUT WHICH I HAD NOT SEEN FOR NEARLY SIX YEARS. HOW ALTERED EVERY THG MIGHT BE DURG THAT TIME! ONE SUDN AND SOLATG CHANGE HAD TAKEN PLACE; BUT A THOAND LTLE CIRCUMSTANC MIGHT HAVE BY GRE WORKED OTHER ALTERATNS, WHICH, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE DONE MORE TRANQUILLY, MIGHT NOT BE THE LS CISIVE. FEAR OVERME ME;I DARED NOT ADVANCE, DREADG A THOAND NAMELS EVILS THAT MA ME TREMBLE, ALTHOUGH I WAS UNABLE TO FE THEM. I REMAED TWO DAYS AT LSANNE, THIS PAFUL STATE OF MD. I NTEMPLATED THE LAKE: THE WATERS WERE PLACID; ALL AROUND WAS LM; AND THE SNOWY MOUNTAS, 'THE PALAC OF NATURE,' WERE NOT CHANGED. BY GRE THE LM AND HEAVENLY SCENE RTORED ME, AND I NTUED MY JOURNEY TOWARDS GENEVA. THE ROAD RAN BY THE SI OF THE LAKE, WHICH BEME NARROWER AS I APPROACHED MY NATIVE TOWN. I DISVERED MORE DISTCTLY THE BLACK SIS OF JURA, AND THE BRIGHT SUMM OF MONT BLANC. I WEPT LIKE A CHILD. "DEAR MOUNTAS! MY OWN BETIFUL LAKE! HOW DO YOU WELE YOUR WANRER? YOUR SUMMS ARE CLEAR; THE SKY AND LAKE ARE BLUE AND PLACID. IS THIS TO PROGNOSTITE PEACE, OR TO MOCK AT MY UNHAPPS?" I FEAR, MY IEND, THAT I SHALL RENR MYSELF TED BY DWELLG ON THE PRELIMARY CIRCUMSTANC; BUT THEY WERE DAYS OF PARATIVE HAPPS, AND I THK OF THEM WH PLEASURE. MY UNTRY, MY BELOVED UNTRY! WHO BUT A NATIVE N TELL THE LIGHT I TOOK AGA BEHOLDG THY STREAMS, THY MOUNTAS, AND, MORE THAN ALL, THY LOVELY LAKE! YET, AS I DREW NEARER HOME, GRIEF AND FEAR AGA OVERME ME. NIGHT ALSO CLOSED AROUND; AND WHEN I ULD HARDLY SEE THE DARK MOUNTAS, I FELT STILL MORE GLOOY. THE PICTURE APPEARED A VAST AND DIM SCENE OF EVIL, AND I FORAW OBSCURELY THAT I WAS STED TO BEE THE MOST WRETCHED OF HUMAN BEGS. ALAS! I PROPHIED TLY, AND FAILED ONLY ONE SGLE CIRCUMSTANCE, THAT ALL THE MISERY I IMAGED AND DREAD, I DID NOT NCEIVE THE HUNDREDTH PART OF THE ANGUISH I WAS STED TO ENDURE. IT WAS PLETELY DARK WHEN I ARRIVED THE ENVIRONS OF GENEVA; THE GAT OF THE TOWN WERE ALREADY SHUT; AND I WAS OBLIGED TO PASS THE NIGHT AT SECHERON, A VILLAGE AT THE DISTANCE OF HALF A LEAGUE OM THE CY. THE SKY WAS SERENE; AND, AS I WAS UNABLE TO RT, I ROLVED TO VIS THE SPOT WHERE MY POOR WILLIAM HAD BEEN MURRED. AS I ULD NOT PASS THROUGH THE TOWN, I WAS OBLIGED TO CROSS THE LAKE A BOAT TO ARRIVE AT PLAPALAIS. DURG THIS SHORT VOYAGE I SAW THE LIGHTNG PLAYG ON THE SUMM OF MONT BLANC THE MOST BETIFUL FIGUR. THE STORM APPEARED TO APPROACH RAPIDLY, AND, ON LANDG, I ASCEND A LOW HILL, THAT I MIGHT OBSERVE S PROGRS. IT ADVANCED; THE HEAVENS WERE CLOUD, AND I SOON FELT THE RA G SLOWLY LARGE DROPS, BUT S VLENCE QUICKLY CREASED. I QUTED MY SEAT, AND WALKED ON, ALTHOUGH THE DARKNS AND STORM CREASED EVERY MUTE, AND THE THUNR BURST WH A TERRIFIC CRASH OVER MY HEAD. IT WAS ECHOED OM SALEVE, THE JURAS, AND THE ALPS OF SAVOY; VIVID FLASH OF LIGHTNG DAZZLED MY EY, ILLUMATG THE LAKE, MAKG APPEAR LIKE A VAST SHEET OF FIRE; THEN FOR AN STANT EVERY THG SEEMED OF A PCHY DARKNS, UNTIL THE EYE REVERED SELF OM THE PRECEDG FLASH. THE STORM, AS IS OFTEN THE SE SWZERLAND, APPEARED AT ONCE VAR PARTS OF THE HEAVENS. THE MOST VLENT STORM HUNG EXACTLY NORTH OF THE TOWN, OVER THE PART OF THE LAKE WHICH LI BETWEEN THE PROMONTORY OF BELRIVE AND THE VILLAGE OF COPET. ANOTHER STORM ENLIGHTENED JURA WH FAT FLASH; AND ANOTHER DARKENED AND SOMETIM DISCLOSED THE MOLE, A PEAKED MOUNTA TO THE EAST OF THE LAKE. WHILE I WATCHED THE TEMPT, SO BETIFUL YET TERRIFIC, I WANRED ON WH A HASTY STEP. THIS NOBLE WAR THE SKY ELEVATED MY SPIRS; I CLASPED MY HANDS, AND EXCLAIMED ALOUD, "WILLIAM, AR ANGEL! THIS IS THY FUNERAL, THIS THY DIRGE!" AS I SAID THE WORDS, I PERCEIVED THE GLOOM A FIGURE WHICH STOLE OM BEHD A CLUMP OF TRE NEAR ME; I STOOD FIXED, GAZG TENTLY: I ULD NOT BE MISTAKEN. A FLASH OF LIGHTNG ILLUMATED THE OBJECT, AND DISVERED S SHAPE PLALY TO ME; S GIGANTIC STATURE, AND THE FORMY OF S ASPECT MORE HIO THAN BELONGS TO HUMANY, STANTLY RMED ME THAT WAS THE WRETCH, THE FILTHY DAEMON, TO WHOM I HAD GIVEN LIFE. WHAT DID HE THERE? COULD HE BE (I SHUDRED AT THE NCEPTN) THE MURRER OF MY BROTHER? NO SOONER DID THAT IA CROSS MY IMAGATN, THAN I BEME NVCED OF S TTH; MY TEETH CHATTERED, AND I WAS FORCED TO LEAN AGAST A TREE FOR SUPPORT. THE FIGURE PASSED ME QUICKLY, AND I LOST THE GLOOM. NOTHG HUMAN SHAPE ULD HAVE STROYED THE FAIR CHILD. HE WAS THE MURRER! I ULD NOT DOUBT . THE MERE PRENCE OF THE IA WAS AN IRRISTIBLE PROOF OF THE FACT. I THOUGHT OF PURSUG THE VIL; BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN VA, FOR ANOTHER FLASH DISVERED HIM TO ME HANGG AMONG THE ROCKS OF THE NEARLY PERPENDICULAR ASCENT OF MONT SALEVE, A HILL THAT BOUNDS PLAPALAIS ON THE SOUTH. HE SOON REACHED THE SUMM, AND DISAPPEARED. I REMAED MOTNLS. THE THUNR CEASED; BUT THE RA STILL NTUED, AND THE SCENE WAS ENVELOPED AN IMPERABLE DARKNS. I REVOLVED MY MD THE EVENTS WHICH I HAD UNTIL NOW SOUGHT TO FET: THE WHOLE TRA OF MY PROGRS TOWARD THE CREATN; THE APPEARANCE OF THE WORKS OF MY OWN HANDS AT MY BEDSI; S PARTURE. TWO YEARS HAD NOW NEARLY ELAPSED SCE THE NIGHT ON WHICH HE FIRST RECEIVED LIFE; AND WAS THIS HIS FIRST CRIME? ALAS! I HAD TURNED LOOSE TO THE WORLD A PRAVED WRETCH, WHOSE LIGHT WAS RNAGE AND MISERY; HAD HE NOT MURRED MY BROTHER? NO ONE N NCEIVE THE ANGUISH I SUFFERED DURG THE REMAR OF THE NIGHT, WHICH I SPENT, LD AND WET, THE OPEN AIR. BUT I DID NOT FEEL THE NVENIENCE OF THE WEATHER; MY IMAGATN WAS BY SCEN OF EVIL AND SPAIR. I NSIRED THE BEG WHOM I HAD ST AMONG MANKD, AND ENDOWED WH THE WILL AND POWER TO EFFECT PURPOS OF HORROR, SUCH AS THE ED WHICH HE HAD NOW DONE, NEARLY THE LIGHT OF MY OWN VAMPIRE, MY OWN SPIR LET LOOSE OM THE GRAVE, AND FORCED TO STROY ALL THAT WAS AR TO ME. DAY DAWNED; AND I DIRECTED MY STEPS TOWARDS THE TOWN. THE GAT WERE OPEN, AND I HASTENED TO MY FATHER'S HOE. MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS TO DISVER WHAT I KNEW OF THE MURRER, AND E STANT PURSU TO BE MA. BUT I PSED WHEN I REFLECTED ON THE STORY THAT I HAD TO TELL. A BEG WHOM I MYSELF HAD FORMED, AND ENDUED WH LIFE, HAD MET ME AT MIDNIGHT AMONG THE PRECIPIC OF AN ACCSIBLE MOUNTA. I REMEMBERED ALSO THE NERVO FEVER WH WHICH I HAD BEEN SEIZED JT AT THE TIME THAT I DATED MY CREATN, AND WHICH WOULD GIVE AN AIR OF LIRIUM TO A TALE OTHERWISE SO UTTERLY IMPROBABLE. I WELL KNEW THAT IF ANY OTHER HAD MUNITED SUCH A RELATN TO ME, I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED UPON AS THE RAVGS OF SANY. BIS, THE STRANGE NATURE OF THE ANIMAL WOULD ELU ALL PURSU, EVEN IF I WERE SO FAR CREDED AS TO PERSUA MY RELATIV TO MENCE . AND THEN OF WHAT E WOULD BE PURSU? WHO ULD ARRT A CREATURE PABLE OF SLG THE OVERHANGG SIS OF MONT SALEVE? THE REFLECTNS TERMED ME, AND I ROLVED TO REMA SILENT. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE THE MORNG WHEN I ENTERED MY FATHER'S HOE. I TOLD THE SERVANTS NOT TO DISTURB THE FAY, AND WENT TO THE LIBRARY TO ATTEND THEIR UAL HOUR OF RISG. SIX YEARS HAD ELAPSED, PASSED A DREAM BUT FOR ONE LIBLE TRACE, AND I STOOD THE SAME PLACE WHERE I HAD LAST EMBRACED MY FATHER BEFORE MY PARTURE FOR INGOLSTADT. BELOVED AND VENERABLE PARENT! HE STILL REMAED TO ME. I GAZED ON THE PICTURE OF MY MOTHER, WHICH STOOD OVER THE MANTEL-PIECE. IT WAS AN HISTORIL SUBJECT, PATED AT MY FATHER'S SIRE, AND REPRENTED CAROLE BEFORT AN AGONY OF SPAIR, KNEELG BY THE FF OF HER AD FATHER. HER GARB WAS STIC, AND HER CHEEK PALE; BUT THERE WAS AN AIR OF DIGNY AND BETY, THAT HARDLY PERMTED THE SENTIMENT OF PY. BELOW THIS PICTURE WAS A MIATURE OF WILLIAM; AND MY TEARS FLOWED WHEN I LOOKED UPON . WHILE I WAS TH ENGAGED, ERNT ENTERED: HE HAD HEARD ME ARRIVE, AND HASTENED TO WELE ME: "WELE, MY ART VICTOR," SAID HE. "AH! I WISH YOU HAD E THREE MONTHS AGO, AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND ALL JOYO AND LIGHTED. YOU E TO NOW TO SHARE A MISERY WHICH NOTHG N ALLEVIATE; YET YOUR PRENCE WILL, I HOPE, REVIVE OUR FATHER, WHO SEEMS SKG UNR HIS MISFORTUNE; AND YOUR PERSUASNS WILL DUCE POOR ELIZABETH TO CEASE HER VA AND TORMENTG SELF-ACCATNS.—POOR WILLIAM! HE WAS OUR DARLG AND OUR PRI!" TEARS, UNRTRAED, FELL OM MY BROTHER'S EY; A SENSE OF MORTAL AGONY CREPT OVER MY AME. BEFORE, I HAD ONLY IMAGED THE WRETCHEDNS OF MY SOLATED HOME; THE REALY ME ON ME AS A NEW, AND A NOT LS TERRIBLE, DISASTER. I TRIED TO LM ERNT; I ENQUIRED MORE MUTELY NCERNG MY FATHER, AND HERE I NAMED MY . "SHE MOST OF ALL," SAID ERNT, "REQUIR NSOLATN; SHE ACCED HERSELF OF HAVG ED THE ATH OF MY BROTHER, AND THAT MA HER VERY WRETCHED. BUT SCE THE MURRER HAS BEEN DISVERED—" "THE MURRER DISVERED! GOOD GOD! HOW N THAT BE? WHO ULD ATTEMPT TO PURSUE HIM? IT IS IMPOSSIBLE; ONE MIGHT AS WELL TRY TO OVERTAKE THE WDS, OR NFE A MOUNTA-STREAM WH A STRAW. I SAW HIM TOO; HE WAS EE LAST NIGHT!" "I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN," REPLIED MY BROTHER, ACCENTS OF WONR, "BUT TO THE DISVERY WE HAVE MA PLET OUR MISERY. NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE AT FIRST; AND EVEN NOW ELIZABETH WILL NOT BE NVCED, NOTWHSTANDG ALL THE EVINCE. INED, WHO WOULD CRED THAT JTE MORZ, WHO WAS SO AMIABLE, AND FOND OF ALL THE FAY, ULD SUDNLY BEE SO PABLE OF SO IGHTFUL, SO APPALLG A CRIME?" "JTE MORZ! POOR, POOR GIRL, IS SHE THE ACCED? BUT IS WRONGFULLY; EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT; NO ONE BELIEV , SURELY, ERNT?" "NO ONE DID AT FIRST; BUT SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANC ME OUT, THAT HAVE ALMOST FORCED NVICTN UPON ; AND HER OWN BEHAVUR HAS BEEN SO NFED, AS TO ADD TO THE EVINCE OF FACTS A WEIGHT THAT, I FEAR, LEAV NO HOPE FOR DOUBT. BUT SHE WILL BE TRIED TODAY, AND YOU WILL THEN HEAR ALL." HE THEN RELATED THAT, THE MORNG ON WHICH THE MURR OF POOR WILLIAM HAD BEEN DISVERED, JTE HAD BEEN TAKEN ILL, AND NFED TO HER BED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. DURG THIS TERVAL, ONE OF THE SERVANTS, HAPPENG TO EXAME THE APPAREL SHE HAD WORN ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURR, HAD DISVERED HER POCKET THE PICTURE OF MY MOTHER, WHICH HAD BEEN JUDGED TO BE THE TEMPTATN OF THE MURRER. THE SERVANT STANTLY SHOWED TO ONE OF THE OTHERS, WHO, WHOUT SAYG A WORD TO ANY OF THE FAY, WENT TO A MAGISTRATE; AND, UPON THEIR POSN, JTE WAS APPREHEND. ON BEG CHARGED WH THE FACT, THE POOR GIRL NFIRMED THE SPICN A GREAT MEASURE BY HER EXTREME NFN OF MANNER. THIS WAS A STRANGE TALE, BUT DID NOT SHAKE MY FAH; AND I REPLIED EARNTLY, "YOU ARE ALL MISTAKEN; I KNOW THE MURRER. JTE, POOR, GOOD JTE, IS NOCENT." AT THAT STANT MY FATHER ENTERED. I SAW UNHAPPS EPLY IMPRSED ON HIS UNTENANCE, BUT HE ENAVOURED TO WELE ME CHEERFULLY; AND, AFTER WE HAD EXCHANGED OUR MOURNFUL GREETG, WOULD HAVE TRODUCED SOME OTHER TOPIC THAN THAT OF OUR DISASTER, HAD NOT ERNT EXCLAIMED, "GOOD GOD, PAPA! VICTOR SAYS THAT HE KNOWS WHO WAS THE MURRER OF POOR WILLIAM." "WE DO ALSO, UNFORTUNATELY," REPLIED MY FATHER, "FOR ED I HAD RATHER HAVE BEEN FOR EVER IGNORANT THAN HAVE DISVERED SO MUCH PRAVY AND UNGRATU ONE I VALUED SO HIGHLY." "MY AR FATHER, YOU ARE MISTAKEN; JTE IS NOCENT." "IF SHE IS, GOD FORBID THAT SHE SHOULD SUFFER AS GUILTY. SHE IS TO BE TRIED TODAY, AND I HOPE, I SCERELY HOPE, THAT SHE WILL BE ACQUTED." THIS SPEECH LMED ME. I WAS FIRMLY NVCED MY OWN MD THAT JTE, AND ED EVERY HUMAN BEG, WAS GUILTLS OF THIS MURR. I HAD NO FEAR, THEREFORE, THAT ANY CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVINCE ULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD STRONG ENOUGH TO NVICT HER. MY TALE WAS NOT ONE TO ANNOUNCE PUBLICLY; S ASTOUNDG HORROR WOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS MADNS BY THE VULGAR. DID ANY ONE ED EXIST, EXCEPT I, THE CREATOR, WHO WOULD BELIEVE, UNLS HIS SENS NVCED HIM, THE EXISTENCE OF THE LIVG MONUMENT OF PRUMPTN AND RASH IGNORANCE WHICH I HAD LET LOOSE UPON THE WORLD? WE WERE SOON JOED BY ELIZABETH. TIME HAD ALTERED HER SCE I LAST BEHELD HER; HAD ENDOWED HER WH LOVELS SURPASSG THE BETY OF HER CHILDISH YEARS. THERE WAS THE SAME NDOUR, THE SAME VIVACY, BUT WAS ALLIED TO AN EXPRSN MORE FULL OF SENSIBILY AND TELLECT. SHE WELED ME WH THE GREATT AFFECTN. "YOUR ARRIVAL, MY AR ," SAID SHE, "FILLS ME WH HOPE. YOU PERHAPS WILL FD SOME MEANS TO JTIFY MY POOR GUILTLS JTE. ALAS! WHO IS SAFE, IF SHE BE NVICTED OF CRIME? I RELY ON HER NOCENCE AS CERTALY AS I DO UPON MY OWN. OUR MISFORTUNE IS DOUBLY HARD TO ; WE HAVE NOT ONLY LOST THAT LOVELY DARLG BOY, BUT THIS POOR GIRL, WHOM I SCERELY LOVE, IS TO BE TORN AWAY BY EVEN A WORSE FATE. IF SHE IS NMNED, I NEVER SHALL KNOW JOY MORE. BUT SHE WILL NOT, I AM SURE SHE WILL NOT; AND THEN I SHALL BE HAPPY AGA, EVEN AFTER THE SAD ATH OF MY LTLE WILLIAM." "SHE IS NOCENT, MY ELIZABETH," SAID I, "AND THAT SHALL BE PROVED; FEAR NOTHG, BUT LET YOUR SPIRS BE CHEERED BY THE ASSURANCE OF HER ACQUTAL." "HOW KD AND GENERO YOU ARE! EVERY ONE ELSE BELIEV HER GUILT, AND THAT MA ME WRETCHED, FOR I KNEW THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE: AND TO SEE EVERY ONE ELSE PREJUDICED SO ADLY A MANNER RENRED ME HOPELS AND SPAIRG." SHE WEPT. "DEART NIECE," SAID MY FATHER, "DRY YOUR TEARS. IF SHE IS, AS YOU BELIEVE, NOCENT, RELY ON THE JTICE OF OUR LAWS, AND THE ACTIVY WH WHICH I SHALL PREVENT THE SLIGHTT SHADOW OF PARTIALY."EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (LYRIC) AND BOLD (LYRIC) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

However, at the same time, the breaks om the tradns ced a rponse reactn favor of more tradnal social rol other areas, such as the refutatn of male sexual relatnships to the extent that one uld be sentenced to ath for participatg the act of homosexualy. Homosexualy as Frankenste’s Theme Durg the above-mentned perd, wrers such as Mary Shelley exprsed a great al of ncern wh the issu. An examatn of Shelley’s novel Frankenste monstrat both the fear of and impossibily of supprsg homosexualy durg this era.

Durg this perd history, homosexualy advanced awarens to a socially fed term as well as a practice punishable by law.

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Rerds show that while there no functng laws agast sodomy per se existed durg Shelley’s wrg of the novel, other laws applied agast exprsns of homosexualy and there a strong adverse public reactn agast homosexualy occurred the early 1800s.

FRANKENSTE, OR THE MORN PROMETHS (CHAP. 7)MARY SHELLEYTRACK 13 ON FRANKENSTE; OR, THE MORN PROMETHS 1 VIEWER10.6K VIEWS19 CONTRIBUTORSFRANKENSTE, OR THE MORN PROMETHS (CHAP. 7) LYRICS ON MY RETURN, I FOUND THE FOLLOWG LETTER OM MY FATHER:—"MY AR VICTOR, "YOU HAVE PROBABLY WAED IMPATIENTLY FOR A LETTER TO FIX THE DATE OF YOUR RETURN TO ; AND I WAS AT FIRST TEMPTED TO WRE ONLY A FEW L, MERELY MENTNG THE DAY ON WHICH I SHOULD EXPECT YOU. BUT THAT WOULD BE A CEL KDNS, AND I DARE NOT DO . WHAT WOULD BE YOUR SURPRISE, MY SON, WHEN YOU EXPECTED A HAPPY AND GLAD WELE, TO BEHOLD, ON THE NTRARY, TEARS AND WRETCHEDNS? AND HOW, VICTOR, N I RELATE OUR MISFORTUNE? ABSENCE NNOT HAVE RENRED YOU LLO TO OUR JOYS AND GRIEFS; AND HOW SHALL I FLICT PA ON MY LONG ABSENT SON? I WISH TO PREPARE YOU FOR THE WOEFUL NEWS, BUT I KNOW IS IMPOSSIBLE; EVEN NOW YOUR EYE SKIMS OVER THE PAGE TO SEEK THE WORDS WHICH ARE TO NVEY TO YOU THE HORRIBLE TIDGS. "WILLIAM IS AD!—THAT SWEET CHILD, WHOSE S LIGHTED AND WARMED MY HEART, WHO WAS SO GENTLE, YET SO GAY! VICTOR, HE IS MURRED! "I WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO NSOLE YOU; BUT WILL SIMPLY RELATE THE CIRCUMSTANC OF THE TRANSACTN. "LAST THURSDAY (MAY 7TH), I, MY NIECE, AND YOUR TWO BROTHERS, WENT TO WALK PLAPALAIS. THE EVENG WAS WARM AND SERENE, AND WE PROLONGED OUR WALK FARTHER THAN UAL. IT WAS ALREADY DK BEFORE WE THOUGHT OF RETURNG; AND THEN WE DISVERED THAT WILLIAM AND ERNT, WHO HAD GONE ON BEFORE, WERE NOT TO BE FOUND. WE ACRDGLY RTED ON A SEAT UNTIL THEY SHOULD RETURN. PRENTLY ERNT ME, AND ENQUIRED IF WE HAD SEEN HIS BROTHER; HE SAID, THAT HE HAD BEEN PLAYG WH HIM, THAT WILLIAM HAD N AWAY TO HI HIMSELF, AND THAT HE VALY SOUGHT FOR HIM, AND AFTERWARDS WAED FOR A LONG TIME, BUT THAT HE DID NOT RETURN. "THIS ACUNT RATHER ALARMED , AND WE NTUED TO SEARCH FOR HIM UNTIL NIGHT FELL, WHEN ELIZABETH NJECTURED THAT HE MIGHT HAVE RETURNED TO THE HOE. HE WAS NOT THERE. WE RETURNED AGA, WH TORCH; FOR I ULD NOT RT, WHEN I THOUGHT THAT MY SWEET BOY HAD LOST HIMSELF, AND WAS EXPOSED TO ALL THE DAMPS AND WS OF NIGHT; ELIZABETH ALSO SUFFERED EXTREME ANGUISH. ABOUT FIVE THE MORNG I DISVERED MY LOVELY BOY, WHOM THE NIGHT BEFORE I HAD SEEN BLOOMG AND ACTIVE HEALTH, STRETCHED ON THE GRASS LIVID AND MOTNLS; THE PRT OF THE MURR'S FGER WAS ON HIS NECK. "HE WAS NVEYED HOME, AND THE ANGUISH THAT WAS VISIBLE MY UNTENANCE BETRAYED THE SECRET TO ELIZABETH. SHE WAS VERY EARNT TO SEE THE RPSE. AT FIRST I ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT HER BUT SHE PERSISTED, AND ENTERG THE ROOM WHERE LAY, HASTILY EXAMED THE NECK OF THE VICTIM, AND CLASPG HER HANDS EXCLAIMED, 'O GOD! I HAVE MURRED MY DARLG CHILD!' "SHE FATED, AND WAS RTORED WH EXTREME DIFFICULTY. WHEN SHE AGA LIVED, WAS ONLY TO WEEP AND SIGH. SHE TOLD ME, THAT THAT SAME EVENG WILLIAM HAD TEASED HER TO LET HIM WEAR A VERY VALUABLE MIATURE THAT SHE POSSSED OF YOUR MOTHER. THIS PICTURE IS GONE, AND WAS DOUBTLS THE TEMPTATN WHICH URGED THE MURRER TO THE ED. WE HAVE NO TRACE OF HIM AT PRENT, ALTHOUGH OUR EXERTNS TO DISVER HIM ARE UNREMTED; BUT THEY WILL NOT RTORE MY BELOVED WILLIAM! "COME, ART VICTOR; YOU ALONE N NSOLE ELIZABETH. SHE WEEPS NTUALLY, AND ACC HERSELF UNJTLY AS THE E OF HIS ATH; HER WORDS PIERCE MY HEART. WE ARE ALL UNHAPPY; BUT WILL NOT THAT BE AN ADDNAL MOTIVE FOR YOU, MY SON, TO RETURN AND BE OUR FORTER? YOUR AR MOTHER! ALAS, VICTOR! I NOW SAY, THANK GOD SHE DID NOT LIVE TO WNS THE CEL, MISERABLE ATH OF HER YOUNGT DARLG! "COME, VICTOR; NOT BROODG THOUGHTS OF VENGEANCE AGAST THE ASSASS, BUT WH FEELGS OF PEACE AND GENTLENS, THAT WILL HEAL, STEAD OF FTERG, THE WOUNDS OF OUR MDS. ENTER THE HOE OF MOURNG, MY IEND, BUT WH KDNS AND AFFECTN FOR THOSE WHO LOVE YOU, AND NOT WH HATRED FOR YOUR ENEMI."YOUR AFFECTNATE AND AFFLICTED FATHER, "ALPHONSE FRANKENSTE."GENEVA, MAY 12TH, 17—." CLERVAL, WHO HAD WATCHED MY UNTENANCE AS I READ THIS LETTER, WAS SURPRISED TO OBSERVE THE SPAIR THAT SUCCEED THE JOY I AT FIRST EXPRSED ON RECEIVG NEW OM MY IENDS. I THREW THE LETTER ON THE TABLE, AND VERED MY FACE WH MY HANDS. "MY AR FRANKENSTE," EXCLAIMED HENRY, WHEN HE PERCEIVED ME WEEP WH BTERNS, "ARE YOU ALWAYS TO BE UNHAPPY? MY AR IEND, WHAT HAS HAPPENED?" I MOTNED HIM TO TAKE UP THE LETTER, WHILE I WALKED UP AND DOWN THE ROOM THE EXTREMT AGATN. TEARS ALSO GHED OM THE EY OF CLERVAL, AS HE READ THE ACUNT OF MY MISFORTUNE. "I N OFFER YOU NO NSOLATN, MY IEND," SAID HE; "YOUR DISASTER IS IRREPARABLE. WHAT DO YOU TEND TO DO?" "TO GO STANTLY TO GENEVA: E WH ME, HENRY, TO ORR THE HORS." DURG OUR WALK, CLERVAL ENAVOURED TO SAY A FEW WORDS OF NSOLATN; HE ULD ONLY EXPRS HIS HEARTFELT SYMPATHY. "POOR WILLIAM!" SAID HE, "AR LOVELY CHILD, HE NOW SLEEPS WH HIS ANGEL MOTHER! WHO THAT HAD SEEN HIM BRIGHT AND JOYO HIS YOUNG BETY, BUT MT WEEP OVER HIS UNTIMELY LOSS! TO DIE SO MISERABLY; TO FEEL THE MURRER'S GRASP! HOW MUCH MORE A MURRED THAT ULD STROY RADIANT NOCENCE! POOR LTLE FELLOW! ONE ONLY NSOLATN HAVE WE; HIS IENDS MOURN AND WEEP, BUT HE IS AT RT. THE PANG IS OVER, HIS SUFFERGS ARE AT AN END FOR EVER. A SOD VERS HIS GENTLE FORM, AND HE KNOWS NO PA. HE N NO LONGER BE A SUBJECT FOR PY; WE MT RERVE THAT FOR HIS MISERABLE SURVIVORS." CLERVAL SPOKE TH AS WE HURRIED THROUGH THE STREETS; THE WORDS IMPRSED THEMSELV ON MY MD AND I REMEMBERED THEM AFTERWARDS SOLU. BUT NOW, AS SOON AS THE HORS ARRIVED, I HURRIED TO A BRLET, AND BA FAREWELL TO MY IEND. MY JOURNEY WAS VERY MELANCHOLY. AT FIRST I WISHED TO HURRY ON, FOR I LONGED TO NSOLE AND SYMPATHISE WH MY LOVED AND SORROWG IENDS; BUT WHEN I DREW NEAR MY NATIVE TOWN, I SLACKENED MY PROGRS. I ULD HARDLY STA THE MULTU OF FEELGS THAT CROWD TO MY MD. I PASSED THROUGH SCEN FAIAR TO MY YOUTH, BUT WHICH I HAD NOT SEEN FOR NEARLY SIX YEARS. HOW ALTERED EVERY THG MIGHT BE DURG THAT TIME! ONE SUDN AND SOLATG CHANGE HAD TAKEN PLACE; BUT A THOAND LTLE CIRCUMSTANC MIGHT HAVE BY GRE WORKED OTHER ALTERATNS, WHICH, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE DONE MORE TRANQUILLY, MIGHT NOT BE THE LS CISIVE. FEAR OVERME ME;I DARED NOT ADVANCE, DREADG A THOAND NAMELS EVILS THAT MA ME TREMBLE, ALTHOUGH I WAS UNABLE TO FE THEM. I REMAED TWO DAYS AT LSANNE, THIS PAFUL STATE OF MD. I NTEMPLATED THE LAKE: THE WATERS WERE PLACID; ALL AROUND WAS LM; AND THE SNOWY MOUNTAS, 'THE PALAC OF NATURE,' WERE NOT CHANGED. BY GRE THE LM AND HEAVENLY SCENE RTORED ME, AND I NTUED MY JOURNEY TOWARDS GENEVA. THE ROAD RAN BY THE SI OF THE LAKE, WHICH BEME NARROWER AS I APPROACHED MY NATIVE TOWN. I DISVERED MORE DISTCTLY THE BLACK SIS OF JURA, AND THE BRIGHT SUMM OF MONT BLANC. I WEPT LIKE A CHILD. "DEAR MOUNTAS! MY OWN BETIFUL LAKE! HOW DO YOU WELE YOUR WANRER? YOUR SUMMS ARE CLEAR; THE SKY AND LAKE ARE BLUE AND PLACID. IS THIS TO PROGNOSTITE PEACE, OR TO MOCK AT MY UNHAPPS?" I FEAR, MY IEND, THAT I SHALL RENR MYSELF TED BY DWELLG ON THE PRELIMARY CIRCUMSTANC; BUT THEY WERE DAYS OF PARATIVE HAPPS, AND I THK OF THEM WH PLEASURE. MY UNTRY, MY BELOVED UNTRY! WHO BUT A NATIVE N TELL THE LIGHT I TOOK AGA BEHOLDG THY STREAMS, THY MOUNTAS, AND, MORE THAN ALL, THY LOVELY LAKE! YET, AS I DREW NEARER HOME, GRIEF AND FEAR AGA OVERME ME. NIGHT ALSO CLOSED AROUND; AND WHEN I ULD HARDLY SEE THE DARK MOUNTAS, I FELT STILL MORE GLOOY. THE PICTURE APPEARED A VAST AND DIM SCENE OF EVIL, AND I FORAW OBSCURELY THAT I WAS STED TO BEE THE MOST WRETCHED OF HUMAN BEGS. ALAS! I PROPHIED TLY, AND FAILED ONLY ONE SGLE CIRCUMSTANCE, THAT ALL THE MISERY I IMAGED AND DREAD, I DID NOT NCEIVE THE HUNDREDTH PART OF THE ANGUISH I WAS STED TO ENDURE. IT WAS PLETELY DARK WHEN I ARRIVED THE ENVIRONS OF GENEVA; THE GAT OF THE TOWN WERE ALREADY SHUT; AND I WAS OBLIGED TO PASS THE NIGHT AT SECHERON, A VILLAGE AT THE DISTANCE OF HALF A LEAGUE OM THE CY. THE SKY WAS SERENE; AND, AS I WAS UNABLE TO RT, I ROLVED TO VIS THE SPOT WHERE MY POOR WILLIAM HAD BEEN MURRED. AS I ULD NOT PASS THROUGH THE TOWN, I WAS OBLIGED TO CROSS THE LAKE A BOAT TO ARRIVE AT PLAPALAIS. DURG THIS SHORT VOYAGE I SAW THE LIGHTNG PLAYG ON THE SUMM OF MONT BLANC THE MOST BETIFUL FIGUR. THE STORM APPEARED TO APPROACH RAPIDLY, AND, ON LANDG, I ASCEND A LOW HILL, THAT I MIGHT OBSERVE S PROGRS. IT ADVANCED; THE HEAVENS WERE CLOUD, AND I SOON FELT THE RA G SLOWLY LARGE DROPS, BUT S VLENCE QUICKLY CREASED. I QUTED MY SEAT, AND WALKED ON, ALTHOUGH THE DARKNS AND STORM CREASED EVERY MUTE, AND THE THUNR BURST WH A TERRIFIC CRASH OVER MY HEAD. IT WAS ECHOED OM SALEVE, THE JURAS, AND THE ALPS OF SAVOY; VIVID FLASH OF LIGHTNG DAZZLED MY EY, ILLUMATG THE LAKE, MAKG APPEAR LIKE A VAST SHEET OF FIRE; THEN FOR AN STANT EVERY THG SEEMED OF A PCHY DARKNS, UNTIL THE EYE REVERED SELF OM THE PRECEDG FLASH. THE STORM, AS IS OFTEN THE SE SWZERLAND, APPEARED AT ONCE VAR PARTS OF THE HEAVENS. THE MOST VLENT STORM HUNG EXACTLY NORTH OF THE TOWN, OVER THE PART OF THE LAKE WHICH LI BETWEEN THE PROMONTORY OF BELRIVE AND THE VILLAGE OF COPET. ANOTHER STORM ENLIGHTENED JURA WH FAT FLASH; AND ANOTHER DARKENED AND SOMETIM DISCLOSED THE MOLE, A PEAKED MOUNTA TO THE EAST OF THE LAKE. WHILE I WATCHED THE TEMPT, SO BETIFUL YET TERRIFIC, I WANRED ON WH A HASTY STEP. THIS NOBLE WAR THE SKY ELEVATED MY SPIRS; I CLASPED MY HANDS, AND EXCLAIMED ALOUD, "WILLIAM, AR ANGEL! THIS IS THY FUNERAL, THIS THY DIRGE!" AS I SAID THE WORDS, I PERCEIVED THE GLOOM A FIGURE WHICH STOLE OM BEHD A CLUMP OF TRE NEAR ME; I STOOD FIXED, GAZG TENTLY: I ULD NOT BE MISTAKEN. A FLASH OF LIGHTNG ILLUMATED THE OBJECT, AND DISVERED S SHAPE PLALY TO ME; S GIGANTIC STATURE, AND THE FORMY OF S ASPECT MORE HIO THAN BELONGS TO HUMANY, STANTLY RMED ME THAT WAS THE WRETCH, THE FILTHY DAEMON, TO WHOM I HAD GIVEN LIFE. WHAT DID HE THERE? COULD HE BE (I SHUDRED AT THE NCEPTN) THE MURRER OF MY BROTHER? NO SOONER DID THAT IA CROSS MY IMAGATN, THAN I BEME NVCED OF S TTH; MY TEETH CHATTERED, AND I WAS FORCED TO LEAN AGAST A TREE FOR SUPPORT. THE FIGURE PASSED ME QUICKLY, AND I LOST THE GLOOM. NOTHG HUMAN SHAPE ULD HAVE STROYED THE FAIR CHILD. HE WAS THE MURRER! I ULD NOT DOUBT . THE MERE PRENCE OF THE IA WAS AN IRRISTIBLE PROOF OF THE FACT. I THOUGHT OF PURSUG THE VIL; BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN VA, FOR ANOTHER FLASH DISVERED HIM TO ME HANGG AMONG THE ROCKS OF THE NEARLY PERPENDICULAR ASCENT OF MONT SALEVE, A HILL THAT BOUNDS PLAPALAIS ON THE SOUTH. HE SOON REACHED THE SUMM, AND DISAPPEARED. I REMAED MOTNLS. THE THUNR CEASED; BUT THE RA STILL NTUED, AND THE SCENE WAS ENVELOPED AN IMPERABLE DARKNS. I REVOLVED MY MD THE EVENTS WHICH I HAD UNTIL NOW SOUGHT TO FET: THE WHOLE TRA OF MY PROGRS TOWARD THE CREATN; THE APPEARANCE OF THE WORKS OF MY OWN HANDS AT MY BEDSI; S PARTURE. TWO YEARS HAD NOW NEARLY ELAPSED SCE THE NIGHT ON WHICH HE FIRST RECEIVED LIFE; AND WAS THIS HIS FIRST CRIME? ALAS! I HAD TURNED LOOSE TO THE WORLD A PRAVED WRETCH, WHOSE LIGHT WAS RNAGE AND MISERY; HAD HE NOT MURRED MY BROTHER? NO ONE N NCEIVE THE ANGUISH I SUFFERED DURG THE REMAR OF THE NIGHT, WHICH I SPENT, LD AND WET, THE OPEN AIR. BUT I DID NOT FEEL THE NVENIENCE OF THE WEATHER; MY IMAGATN WAS BY SCEN OF EVIL AND SPAIR. I NSIRED THE BEG WHOM I HAD ST AMONG MANKD, AND ENDOWED WH THE WILL AND POWER TO EFFECT PURPOS OF HORROR, SUCH AS THE ED WHICH HE HAD NOW DONE, NEARLY THE LIGHT OF MY OWN VAMPIRE, MY OWN SPIR LET LOOSE OM THE GRAVE, AND FORCED TO STROY ALL THAT WAS AR TO ME. DAY DAWNED; AND I DIRECTED MY STEPS TOWARDS THE TOWN. THE GAT WERE OPEN, AND I HASTENED TO MY FATHER'S HOE. MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS TO DISVER WHAT I KNEW OF THE MURRER, AND E STANT PURSU TO BE MA. BUT I PSED WHEN I REFLECTED ON THE STORY THAT I HAD TO TELL. A BEG WHOM I MYSELF HAD FORMED, AND ENDUED WH LIFE, HAD MET ME AT MIDNIGHT AMONG THE PRECIPIC OF AN ACCSIBLE MOUNTA. I REMEMBERED ALSO THE NERVO FEVER WH WHICH I HAD BEEN SEIZED JT AT THE TIME THAT I DATED MY CREATN, AND WHICH WOULD GIVE AN AIR OF LIRIUM TO A TALE OTHERWISE SO UTTERLY IMPROBABLE. I WELL KNEW THAT IF ANY OTHER HAD MUNITED SUCH A RELATN TO ME, I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED UPON AS THE RAVGS OF SANY. BIS, THE STRANGE NATURE OF THE ANIMAL WOULD ELU ALL PURSU, EVEN IF I WERE SO FAR CREDED AS TO PERSUA MY RELATIV TO MENCE . AND THEN OF WHAT E WOULD BE PURSU? WHO ULD ARRT A CREATURE PABLE OF SLG THE OVERHANGG SIS OF MONT SALEVE? THE REFLECTNS TERMED ME, AND I ROLVED TO REMA SILENT. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE THE MORNG WHEN I ENTERED MY FATHER'S HOE. I TOLD THE SERVANTS NOT TO DISTURB THE FAY, AND WENT TO THE LIBRARY TO ATTEND THEIR UAL HOUR OF RISG. SIX YEARS HAD ELAPSED, PASSED A DREAM BUT FOR ONE LIBLE TRACE, AND I STOOD THE SAME PLACE WHERE I HAD LAST EMBRACED MY FATHER BEFORE MY PARTURE FOR INGOLSTADT. BELOVED AND VENERABLE PARENT! HE STILL REMAED TO ME. I GAZED ON THE PICTURE OF MY MOTHER, WHICH STOOD OVER THE MANTEL-PIECE. IT WAS AN HISTORIL SUBJECT, PATED AT MY FATHER'S SIRE, AND REPRENTED CAROLE BEFORT AN AGONY OF SPAIR, KNEELG BY THE FF OF HER AD FATHER. HER GARB WAS STIC, AND HER CHEEK PALE; BUT THERE WAS AN AIR OF DIGNY AND BETY, THAT HARDLY PERMTED THE SENTIMENT OF PY. BELOW THIS PICTURE WAS A MIATURE OF WILLIAM; AND MY TEARS FLOWED WHEN I LOOKED UPON . WHILE I WAS TH ENGAGED, ERNT ENTERED: HE HAD HEARD ME ARRIVE, AND HASTENED TO WELE ME: "WELE, MY ART VICTOR," SAID HE. "AH! I WISH YOU HAD E THREE MONTHS AGO, AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND ALL JOYO AND LIGHTED. YOU E TO NOW TO SHARE A MISERY WHICH NOTHG N ALLEVIATE; YET YOUR PRENCE WILL, I HOPE, REVIVE OUR FATHER, WHO SEEMS SKG UNR HIS MISFORTUNE; AND YOUR PERSUASNS WILL DUCE POOR ELIZABETH TO CEASE HER VA AND TORMENTG SELF-ACCATNS.—POOR WILLIAM! HE WAS OUR DARLG AND OUR PRI!" TEARS, UNRTRAED, FELL OM MY BROTHER'S EY; A SENSE OF MORTAL AGONY CREPT OVER MY AME. BEFORE, I HAD ONLY IMAGED THE WRETCHEDNS OF MY SOLATED HOME; THE REALY ME ON ME AS A NEW, AND A NOT LS TERRIBLE, DISASTER. I TRIED TO LM ERNT; I ENQUIRED MORE MUTELY NCERNG MY FATHER, AND HERE I NAMED MY . "SHE MOST OF ALL," SAID ERNT, "REQUIR NSOLATN; SHE ACCED HERSELF OF HAVG ED THE ATH OF MY BROTHER, AND THAT MA HER VERY WRETCHED. BUT SCE THE MURRER HAS BEEN DISVERED—" "THE MURRER DISVERED! GOOD GOD! HOW N THAT BE? WHO ULD ATTEMPT TO PURSUE HIM? IT IS IMPOSSIBLE; ONE MIGHT AS WELL TRY TO OVERTAKE THE WDS, OR NFE A MOUNTA-STREAM WH A STRAW. I SAW HIM TOO; HE WAS EE LAST NIGHT!" "I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN," REPLIED MY BROTHER, ACCENTS OF WONR, "BUT TO THE DISVERY WE HAVE MA PLET OUR MISERY. NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE AT FIRST; AND EVEN NOW ELIZABETH WILL NOT BE NVCED, NOTWHSTANDG ALL THE EVINCE. INED, WHO WOULD CRED THAT JTE MORZ, WHO WAS SO AMIABLE, AND FOND OF ALL THE FAY, ULD SUDNLY BEE SO PABLE OF SO IGHTFUL, SO APPALLG A CRIME?" "JTE MORZ! POOR, POOR GIRL, IS SHE THE ACCED? BUT IS WRONGFULLY; EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT; NO ONE BELIEV , SURELY, ERNT?" "NO ONE DID AT FIRST; BUT SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANC ME OUT, THAT HAVE ALMOST FORCED NVICTN UPON ; AND HER OWN BEHAVUR HAS BEEN SO NFED, AS TO ADD TO THE EVINCE OF FACTS A WEIGHT THAT, I FEAR, LEAV NO HOPE FOR DOUBT. BUT SHE WILL BE TRIED TODAY, AND YOU WILL THEN HEAR ALL." HE THEN RELATED THAT, THE MORNG ON WHICH THE MURR OF POOR WILLIAM HAD BEEN DISVERED, JTE HAD BEEN TAKEN ILL, AND NFED TO HER BED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. DURG THIS TERVAL, ONE OF THE SERVANTS, HAPPENG TO EXAME THE APPAREL SHE HAD WORN ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURR, HAD DISVERED HER POCKET THE PICTURE OF MY MOTHER, WHICH HAD BEEN JUDGED TO BE THE TEMPTATN OF THE MURRER. THE SERVANT STANTLY SHOWED TO ONE OF THE OTHERS, WHO, WHOUT SAYG A WORD TO ANY OF THE FAY, WENT TO A MAGISTRATE; AND, UPON THEIR POSN, JTE WAS APPREHEND. ON BEG CHARGED WH THE FACT, THE POOR GIRL NFIRMED THE SPICN A GREAT MEASURE BY HER EXTREME NFN OF MANNER. THIS WAS A STRANGE TALE, BUT DID NOT SHAKE MY FAH; AND I REPLIED EARNTLY, "YOU ARE ALL MISTAKEN; I KNOW THE MURRER. JTE, POOR, GOOD JTE, IS NOCENT." AT THAT STANT MY FATHER ENTERED. I SAW UNHAPPS EPLY IMPRSED ON HIS UNTENANCE, BUT HE ENAVOURED TO WELE ME CHEERFULLY; AND, AFTER WE HAD EXCHANGED OUR MOURNFUL GREETG, WOULD HAVE TRODUCED SOME OTHER TOPIC THAN THAT OF OUR DISASTER, HAD NOT ERNT EXCLAIMED, "GOOD GOD, PAPA! VICTOR SAYS THAT HE KNOWS WHO WAS THE MURRER OF POOR WILLIAM." "WE DO ALSO, UNFORTUNATELY," REPLIED MY FATHER, "FOR ED I HAD RATHER HAVE BEEN FOR EVER IGNORANT THAN HAVE DISVERED SO MUCH PRAVY AND UNGRATU ONE I VALUED SO HIGHLY." "MY AR FATHER, YOU ARE MISTAKEN; JTE IS NOCENT." "IF SHE IS, GOD FORBID THAT SHE SHOULD SUFFER AS GUILTY. SHE IS TO BE TRIED TODAY, AND I HOPE, I SCERELY HOPE, THAT SHE WILL BE ACQUTED." THIS SPEECH LMED ME. I WAS FIRMLY NVCED MY OWN MD THAT JTE, AND ED EVERY HUMAN BEG, WAS GUILTLS OF THIS MURR. I HAD NO FEAR, THEREFORE, THAT ANY CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVINCE ULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD STRONG ENOUGH TO NVICT HER. MY TALE WAS NOT ONE TO ANNOUNCE PUBLICLY; S ASTOUNDG HORROR WOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS MADNS BY THE VULGAR. DID ANY ONE ED EXIST, EXCEPT I, THE CREATOR, WHO WOULD BELIEVE, UNLS HIS SENS NVCED HIM, THE EXISTENCE OF THE LIVG MONUMENT OF PRUMPTN AND RASH IGNORANCE WHICH I HAD LET LOOSE UPON THE WORLD? WE WERE SOON JOED BY ELIZABETH. TIME HAD ALTERED HER SCE I LAST BEHELD HER; HAD ENDOWED HER WH LOVELS SURPASSG THE BETY OF HER CHILDISH YEARS. THERE WAS THE SAME NDOUR, THE SAME VIVACY, BUT WAS ALLIED TO AN EXPRSN MORE FULL OF SENSIBILY AND TELLECT. SHE WELED ME WH THE GREATT AFFECTN. "YOUR ARRIVAL, MY AR ," SAID SHE, "FILLS ME WH HOPE. YOU PERHAPS WILL FD SOME MEANS TO JTIFY MY POOR GUILTLS JTE. ALAS! WHO IS SAFE, IF SHE BE NVICTED OF CRIME? I RELY ON HER NOCENCE AS CERTALY AS I DO UPON MY OWN. OUR MISFORTUNE IS DOUBLY HARD TO ; WE HAVE NOT ONLY LOST THAT LOVELY DARLG BOY, BUT THIS POOR GIRL, WHOM I SCERELY LOVE, IS TO BE TORN AWAY BY EVEN A WORSE FATE. IF SHE IS NMNED, I NEVER SHALL KNOW JOY MORE. BUT SHE WILL NOT, I AM SURE SHE WILL NOT; AND THEN I SHALL BE HAPPY AGA, EVEN AFTER THE SAD ATH OF MY LTLE WILLIAM." "SHE IS NOCENT, MY ELIZABETH," SAID I, "AND THAT SHALL BE PROVED; FEAR NOTHG, BUT LET YOUR SPIRS BE CHEERED BY THE ASSURANCE OF HER ACQUTAL." "HOW KD AND GENERO YOU ARE! EVERY ONE ELSE BELIEV HER GUILT, AND THAT MA ME WRETCHED, FOR I KNEW THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE: AND TO SEE EVERY ONE ELSE PREJUDICED SO ADLY A MANNER RENRED ME HOPELS AND SPAIRG." SHE WEPT. "DEART NIECE," SAID MY FATHER, "DRY YOUR TEARS. IF SHE IS, AS YOU BELIEVE, NOCENT, RELY ON THE JTICE OF OUR LAWS, AND THE ACTIVY WH WHICH I SHALL PREVENT THE SLIGHTT SHADOW OF PARTIALY."EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (LYRIC) AND BOLD (LYRIC) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

“In 1810, when thirty homosexuals were arrted a raid on the Whe Swan, Vere St., London, those discharged for want of evince were so roughly handled by the crowd as to be danger of their liv” (The Morng Chronicle, 1810). Throughout the novel, Shelley explor the social abhorrence toward homosexualy by uchg the more socially acceptable terms of the growg mache age.

She acplish this vtigatn to homosexualy not only Frankenste’s e of science as a means of producg his monster. Rather than beg ncerned wh the ‘natural’ orr of the world and the advancement of society, Frankenste, like the homosexual element of Bra, ncerned self wh ‘unnatural’ male love. Unnatural as a Metaphor for Homosexualy From the begng of his tn, Victor Frankenste purposefully and tentnally turned his back on the natural world as a way of ncentratg on disverg the secret of brgg life to animate material.

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