A few nights later Mary had a dream and explained it by saying: Night waned upon this talk; and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. ... Based on her dream, Shelley developed one of the greatest stories of all time. ...
After all of the time Victor has spent slaving over his dream of creating life, he throws it all away because of what he sees when his experiment awakes. "The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."" ... Frankenstein has treated this experiment as he would his own child for countless nights, and now that he's seen the true face of his "child-, he becomes the negligent parent of an innocent child. ...
A few nights later Mary had a dream and explained it by saying: Night waned upon this talk; and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. ... Based on her dream, Shelley developed one of the greatest stories of all time. ...
The result of Victor's experiment banished any hopes of the "beauty of the dream" that Victor had of his creature. ... He worked with objects that is viewed as revolting and spent days and nights in churchyards, charnel houses and vaults, collecting remains of dead bodies, in places of dark and ghostly atmosphere. ... He stretches the limits of conventions, and pursues a dream that seems to be too extraordinary to achieve, and when he does, he is miserable and guilty. ...
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. ... HADFIELD The essence of the Frankenstein...
