| Jeffrey Masten - 1997 - 244 páginas
...merely resonant in this context of patriarchal author/ity - a use of mould in Paradise Lost x.744: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay To mould me Man." 42 Mould as a noun could mean "a hollow form or matrix into which fluid or plastic material is cast... | |
| Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 páginas
...succeeding, he damns himself. Frankenstein also is responsible for four homicides. "Learn from me," '"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — " (Pusioist /.osr, X. 743-45) he tells Walton,... | |
| 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 me man ? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me ?" Bovenmenselijke kennisdrang en (on) verantwoordelijkheid... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"13 To the point: Santarromana "moulds" himself through... | |
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