| Martine Aliana Rothblatt - 1997 - 230 דפים
...perfect monster I have asked the Miltonic questions Shelley poses in the epigraph of Frankenstein: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould...man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" With one voice, her monster and I answer "no" without debasing ourselves, for we have done the hard... | |
| Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 דפים
...succeeding, he damns himself. Frankenstein also is responsible for four homicides. "Learn from me," '"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — " (Pusioist /.osr, X. 743-45) he tells Walton, "how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,... | |
| Robert M. Ryan - 2004 - 312 דפים
...supplication to his Creator" in Paradise Lost includes the lines used as an epigraph to Frankenstein: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?12 The Maker's response to this protest is a determination to redeem mankind by sacrificing Himself.... | |
| Jennifer DeVere Brody - 1998 - 276 דפים
...claimed their humanity (which, in both cases, was manufactured). Dr. Moreau and the Evils of Vivisection Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — John Milton, Paradise Lost quoted as prologue to Frankenstein I wanted to find out the extreme... | |
| Hendrik van Gorp - 1998 - 124 דפים
...die de frontpagina sieren en waar Frankenstein als schepper wordt aangeklaagd door zijn schepsel : "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould...man ? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me ?" Bovenmenselijke kennisdrang en (on) verantwoordelijkheid worden meteen in het brandpunt van de intrige... | |
| David J. Skal - 1998 - 380 דפים
...of Paradise Lost falls heavily across the narrative, with a quote from Milton used as an epigraph: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay /To mould me man? Did I solicit thee/From Darkness to promote me? — " Frankenstein ambiguously conflates the archetypal characters... | |
| Daniel Katz - 1999 - 232 דפים
...depiction of Adam's refusal of oedipal debt. "Darkness" also calls up these lines of the first son: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — This passage serves as the epigraph for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book which Moran's tale... | |
| John Sutherland - 1999 - 276 דפים
...is to be found in the epigraph from Milton's Paradise Lost (x. 743—5) on the novel's title-page: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — As commentators have often noted, Mary Shelley's novel conforms closely to Milton's epic as source... | |
| Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - 1999 - 566 דפים
...forgiveness. There is no self-criticism, no charity. Unsurprisingly, he soon turns to blame and accuse God: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man, did I solicit thee [...]." (PL 1 0: 743-44) The figure of speech here works to focus on the unremitting self-interest... | |
| Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster - 2000 - 238 דפים
...The first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opens with a quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould...man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"13 To the point: Santarromana "moulds" himself through the act of creation; he "moulds" me (his... | |
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