...University study of chemistry and physiology: "After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter."90 Subsequently, Frankenstein invades the "dissecting room and the slaughter-house" in his...

...days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation of life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.. . .1 see. . .that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be.....

...the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and...

...principle of creation: "After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue," the scientist writes, "I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter" (81). And then occurs the final indignity: when the being opens his eyes for the first time, and Frankenstein...

...darkness a sudden light broke in upon me . . . After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. (Shelley, 1998: 34) Victor's obsessive quest for a scientific method that can cheat death is ostensibly...

...the -discovery were distinct and prohahle. After days and nights of incredihle lahor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I hecame myself capahle of hestowing animation upon lifeless mauer."'' But in the case of the discovery,...

...examinations "the corruption of death." After this seemingly endless toil, Frankenstein admits that "I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." People acquainted only with movie versions of Frankenstein might be surprised to learn that, in the...

...the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and...

...Mary Shelley's Frankenstein collected body parts and created a monster, because, as he explained, "I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and...life; nay more, I became myself capable of bestowing life upon lifeless matter" (p. 54). In bringing life to dead body parts, Frankenstein crosses the border...

...studies finally shed on his mind "a light so brilliant and wondrous . . . the astonishing secret . . . the cause of generation and life, nay more, I became...capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter." He decides to compose a creature "like himself . . . and give life to an animal as complex and wonderful...