She died on the first approach of cold weather, at the beginning of this last winter. I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.M. The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy. M. Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. It also shows that the creature knows he can opt to end life and that he sympathizes with others, one of the most unique human qualities. I have prevented his encountering the inconveniences and perhaps dangers of so long a journey, yet how often have I regretted not being able to perform it myself! The allusion to this series of biographies is important to the novel because it determines the basis for the monster's moral fiber. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses; I became the same happy creature who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care. And the first thing that the monster learns is English through a book that describes the failures and faults of empires. Justine, you may remember, was a great favourite of yours; and I recollect you once remarked, that if you were in an ill-humour, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for the same reason that Ariosto gives concerning the beauty of Angelica—she looked so frank-hearted and happy. This passage contains two allusions: the first to the Old English legend of Lady Godiva, who rode naked in protest of excessive taxation, and Tom of Coventry, the man who was struck blind for “peeping” on her, and the second to the family tomb of Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare’s This is an allusion to the character Sancho Panza from Miguel de Cervantes’s novel This is an allusion to a story recounted in Washington Irving’s This is an allusion to Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin, and his experiments and theories of “spontaneous evolution.”This is an allusion to the Judeo-Christian allegory of God and the creation of the world.This is an allusion to Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin’s grandfather, and his experiments and theories of “spontaneous evolution.”This is an allusion to the ancient mariner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”This is an allusion to Satan’s words in John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost”: “The world was all before them, where to choose / Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.”Italian for “slaves always fretting,” this is a reference to the Italians who rebelled under the Austrian domination of Italy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.This quote contains two allusions: one is to the medieval French hero and military leader Roland, who died at Roncesvalles, and the second is to King Arthur, the legendary King of Britain, and his Knights of the Round Table.This is an allusion to Cornelius Agrippa, a sixteenth-century German physician who was persecuted for his occult beliefs.This is an allusion to the Romantic writer Charles Lamb’s poem “The Old Familiar Faces.”The phrase “Angel of Destruction” is an allusion to Milton’s Satan in “Paradise Lost,” who is presented as a fallen archangel of God who pledges to destroy God’s new creation: man.This is an allusion to the chimera, a female monster in Greek mythology that had a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail, and breathed fire.This is an allusion to the Arabian sailor Sinbad of This is an allusion to Dante Alighieri’s (1265–1321) depiction of the circles of Hell in his long narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.”This is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”This is an allusion to the stubborn schoolmaster in Oliver Goldsmith’s novel This is an allusion to Orlando from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem “Orlando Furioso” (1532), who becomes fascinated with the beauty of the married Angelica.This is an allusion to the phrase “the palaces of nature,” which is taken from Lord Byron’s narrative poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (1812).Though the reference is to the actual mountain in Europe, these lines also contain an allusion to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Mont Blanc,” in which the author uses the mountain to represent the actuating power of the universe.This is an allusion to Pandæmonium, the new kingdom Satan and his troops build in Hell in Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”This is an allusion to the Aesop fable of the ass and the lapdog, in which the lapdog is rewarded for fawning over its master but the ass is punished for doing so.This is an allusion to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Mutability,” in which the line “the path of its departure still is free” appears.This is an allusion to the ancient Roman myth of Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome and to Theseus, the mythical king and founder of Athens.This is a biblical allusion to Adam, the father of man.This is an allusion to Milton’s Satan of “Paradise Lost,” who looks upon Adam and Eve with envy for still having God’s love.This is an allusion to Milton’s Satan in “Paradise Lost,” who falls to Hell with his army of rebel angels.This is an allusion to Adam’s request to God in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” to make him a companion.This is an allusion to Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” who pronounces, “Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.”This is an allusion to a quote from the poem “Rimini” by the Romantic poet Leigh Hunt, but it is also a subtle allusion to the work of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, who was proclaimed the “Poet of Nature” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley’s husband.This is an allusion to King Charles I, whose authoritarian rule led to his execution in 1649.This is an allusion to two royalists—Viscount Falkland and George Baron Goring—who supported King Charles I in the seventeenth century.This is an allusion to John Hampden, a seventeenth-century parliamentarian and patriot who famously challenged the authority of King Charles I and was killed defending his beliefs.This is an allusion to Eve’s eating of the forbidden apple and her and Adam’s subsequent banishment from Eden.These words are an allusion to Jesus’s proclamation to God before his crucifixion during which he asks, “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”This is an allusion to the deliverance of more than ten thousand Greeks who were led to safety after their Persian rebel leader was defeated.This is an allusion to Milton’s Satan in “Paradise Lost,” who was condemned to dwell in eternal “adamantine chains” in Hell.This is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” when the figures Death and Life-in-Death cast dice for the mariner regarding his fate.This is an allusion to Milton’s Satan in “Paradise Lost,” who declares, “Evil, be thou my good” after he is cast from heaven.This is an allusion to Milton’s Satan in “Paradise Lost,” who still had the support of a legion of rebel angels who fell along with him as he was cast out of heaven.SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble.
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