I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change,... The Quarterly Review - Page 3791818Full view - About this book
| Barbara Tepa Lupack - 1999 - 352 pages
...intentions. The changes made to the novel are usually benign. Although Frankenstein's creation dream ("I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms" [58]) is missing, her death is clearly the impetus for his Monster-making — when she dies giving... | |
| Rictor Norton - 2005 - 788 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Betty T. Bennett, Stuart Curran - 2000 - 722 pages
...made of other dead limbs. When he dreams he embraces Lavenza, blooming with health, he finds her lips "became livid with the hue of death; her features...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel" (F 40).... | |
| Victor J. Moeller, Marc V. Moeller - 2000 - 196 pages
...of health, walking the streets of Ingolstadt. "Delighted and surprised, he embraced her, but as he imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became...hue of death; her features appeared to change, and he thought that he held the corpse of (24) in his arms." (25) When Victor wanders through the city... | |
| Mary Shelley - 2001 - 228 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel. I started from... | |
| Anna Sonser - 2001 - 180 pages
...saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Orit Kamir - 2001 - 264 pages
...saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of flanneL I started from... | |
| Helen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir - 2006 - 340 pages
...kiss. She pulls away. CLAIRE [Reads] "I thought I saw my beloved walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. I embraced her but as I imprinted the first kiss on...they became livid with the hue of death; her features changed and I beheld the corpse of my dead mother in my arms, and I saw the grave worms crawling in... | |
| Robert Samuels - 2001 - 210 pages
...spreads to Victor's dream of his beloved Elizabeth: "Delighted and surprised, I embraced her [Elizabeth]; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death" (58). On the level of his unconscious, Victor displays not only a horror of blackness, and heterosexuality,... | |
| Norma Thompson - 2008 - 256 pages
...Frankenstein recalls his dream that after kissing Elizabeth on the lips, her features became transformed, "and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms" (86). Mother, wife, and sister blur, and Victor "feels himself failed by women on every side."55 Just... | |
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