 I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.  The Quarterly Review - Page 3791818Full view - About this book
 | Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 400 pages
..."He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs." The point here is not horror for its own sake, but rather the effects of rejection, even on a monster... | |
 | William Keach - 2004 - 216 pages
...Rousseau's and other eighteenthcentury conjectures about the emotive genesis of natural signs: His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheek. He might have spoken, but I did not hear . . . (1.5.57)38 'Sometimes I wished to express my... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - 2006 - 248 pages
...He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down the stairs" (58). This passage centers itself, as all gothic fiction does, on the confrontation with... | |
 | Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle - 2006 - 770 pages
...of his creature turned immediately to dread. "I saw the dull yellow eyes of the creature open. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped" (Shelley 56, 57). The monster escapes, too, and parts company with its maker for a number of years.... | |
 | Stephen Krensky - 2007 - 50 pages
...He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs — SOURCE NOTES 16 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1831 edition; repr., Charlottesville:... | |
 | Sara Emilie Guyer - 2007 - 392 pages
...He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear. (39-4o)26 The monsters first words may or may not be words; they are produced neither in the mouth... | |
 | Susan Tyler Hitchcock - 2007 - 412 pages
...He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks." Frankenstein flees, then descends into a months-long illness that today might be considered depression,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1960 - 346 pages
...He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds,...out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained... | |
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