His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!— Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;... The Quarterly Review - Página 3781818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Mary Shelley - 1994 - 260 páginas
...form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different... | |
| Frances Ferguson - 1992 - 198 páginas
...His limbs were in proportion and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes."[52] One might argue (as Victor nearly does) that Victor is a poor technician or that his inexperience... | |
| Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 1993 - 354 páginas
..."His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath" (p. 56). In many ways Frankenstein retells the tragedy of the French Revolution, chronicling how initially... | |
| Judith Halberstam - 1995 - 236 páginas
...empathy and the possibility of a female monster. Visual Horror and Narrative Beautiful! — Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. (57) Frankenstein's monster's skin barely covers... | |
| Barbara Claire Freeman - 2023 - 220 páginas
...beautiful. Beautiful! Great God!" (52). And Victor proceeds to chronicle the Monster's various atrocities: "his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the sunken white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips" (52).... | |
| Anne Powling, John O'Connor, Geoff Barton - 1996 - 166 páginas
...form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. The different... | |
| George J. Annas - 1997 - 308 páginas
..."His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness." Victor's burst of emotion at achieving his goal quickly changes to horror, however, as he gazes at... | |
| Jennifer Ham, Matthew Senior - 1997 - 280 páginas
...because, in its style, it echoes the description of Frankenstein's monster, published a few years before: His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a... | |
| David J. Skal - 1998 - 380 páginas
..."His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips." The monster's creator seeks escape in real sleep,... | |
| Tilottama Rajan, Julia M. Wright - 1998 - 316 páginas
...of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs . . . Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, [and] straight black lips . . . [B]y the dim and yellow light of the moon,... | |
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