 | Jennifer DeVere Brody - 1998 - 276 páginas
...claimed their humanity (which, in both cases, was manufactured). Dr. Moreau and the Evils of Vivisection Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — John Milton, Paradise Lost quoted as prologue to Frankenstein I wanted to find out the extreme... | |
 | Hendrik van Gorp - 1998 - 124 páginas
...die de frontpagina sieren en waar Frankenstein als schepper wordt aangeklaagd door zijn schepsel : "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould...man ? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me ?" Bovenmenselijke kennisdrang en (on) verantwoordelijkheid worden meteen in het brandpunt van de intrige... | |
 | David J. Skal - 1998 - 380 páginas
...of Paradise Lost falls heavily across the narrative, with a quote from Milton used as an epigraph: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay /To mould me man? Did I solicit thee/From Darkness to promote me? — " Frankenstein ambiguously conflates the archetypal characters... | |
 | John Sutherland - 1999 - 276 páginas
...is to be found in the epigraph from Milton's Paradise Lost (x. 743—5) on the novel's title-page: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — As commentators have often noted, Mary Shelley's novel conforms closely to Milton's epic as source... | |
 | Daniel Katz - 1999 - 232 páginas
...depiction of Adam's refusal of oedipal debt. "Darkness" also calls up these lines of the first son: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — This passage serves as the epigraph for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book which Moran's tale... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - 1999 - 566 páginas
...forgiveness. There is no self-criticism, no charity. Unsurprisingly, he soon turns to blame and accuse God: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man, did I solicit thee [...]." (PL 1 0: 743-44) The figure of speech here works to focus on the unremitting self-interest... | |
 | Veikko Launis, Juhani Pietarinen, Juha Räikkä - 1999 - 224 páginas
...The Modern Prometheus - deliberately. Together with the motto from Milton, Paradise Lost (x.743-745: "Did I request thee. Maker, from my clay / To mould Me man? Did l solicit thee / From darkness to promote me? -") a context of earlier Great narratives is cited that... | |
 | Jon-Christian Suggs - 2009 - 416 páginas
...published Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus with this epigraph from book 10 of Paradise Lost: Did I request thee. Maker, from my clay To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee From Darkness to promote me?The novel turned on the desire of man to breathe life into dead or nonhuman form, to make out of... | |
 | Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster - 2000 - 238 páginas
...The first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opens with a quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould...man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"13 To the point: Santarromana "moulds" himself through the act of creation; he "moulds" me (his... | |
 | Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, Susan Leigh Foster - 2000 - 238 páginas
...first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opens with a quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did 1 request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"1i To the point: Santarromana "moulds" himself through the act of creation; he "moulds" me (his... | |
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