 | William Lyon Mackenzie King - 1918 - 582 pàgines
...creator to misery, and pursued him to irremediable ruin. "All my speculations and hopes," he cries, "are as nothing; and like the archangel who aspired...to Omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell!" What is this weird tale but a parable, all too realistic, of the War that has destroyed so large a... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 pàgines
...I could not rank myself with the herd of common pro30 jectors. But this feeling, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only...imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and ceived the idea, and executed the creation of a man. Even now I cannot recollect, without passion,... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 pàgines
...creator of a man, Frankenstein plays the role of God. But Frankenstein also compares himself to Satan: "All my speculations and hopes are as nothing, and...aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell" (1oo). The narrator Walton describes Frankenstein in terms that clearly recall the fallen Lucifer of... | |
 | Peter Bock - 1993 - 356 pàgines
...grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures. . . . All my speculations and hope are as nothing and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained to an eternal hell. We can say the monster is claiming that he was the improper subject of a poorly... | |
 | Charles R. Lewis - 2000 - 166 pàgines
...... I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors. But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust. Alt my speculations and hopes are as nothing My imagination was vivid, my powers of analysis and application... | |
 | Ronald Chrisley, Sander Begeer - 2000 - 464 pàgines
...useless grief those talents that might be useful to my fellow creatures ... all my speculations and hope are as nothing and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained to an eternal hell. (P. 256.) We can say the monster is claiming that he was the improper subject of... | |
 | François Flahault - 2003 - 216 pàgines
...Victor Frankenstein, too, in his own envy of God's creative power, likewise compares himself to Satan: 'like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell'. Earlier, Milton had shown Satan spying on Adam and Eve. The couple at the dawn of time present an ideal... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 2004 - 294 pàgines
...animal, I could not rank myself with the herd of common projectors. But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only...my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like 252 the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell. My imagination was vivid,... | |
 | Eyal Chowers - 2004 - 278 pàgines
...face of one's own world-transforming reason. "All my speculations and hopes are as nothing," he cries, "and like the arch-angel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell." 20 In her critique of reason-based order, Mary Shelley exemplifies a profound affinity with hyper-order... | |
 | Eyal Chowers - 2004 - 278 pàgines
...face of one's own world-transforming reason. "All my speculations and hopes are as nothing," he cries, "and like the arch-angel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell."20 In her critique of reason-based order, Mary Shelley exemplifies a profound affinity with hyper-order... | |
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My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense ; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea, and executed the creation of a man. 
