Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

‘Hateful day when I received life!’ I exclaimed in agony. ‘Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.’

I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.

he’s just like me fr

“Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.”