...spirit of the Alps, as if it were a compassionate as well as a natural parent: "Wandering spirits . . . allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life." But Frankenstein's belief in natural benevolence, like his earlier confidence in the benevolence of...

...blindness with respect to Satan, the exclusion of the other that this political blindness allows): I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance,...with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices of ice . . . He approached . . . [an] unearthly ugliness . . . almost too horrible for human eyes ....

...of Mont Blanc produces a brief sense of euphoria: "My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed — 'Wandering...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life'" (95). At this moment the monster again appears, a "wandering spirit" indeed who moves at "superhuman...

...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed — "Wandering...as your companion, away from the joys of life." As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman...

...Victor has traveled from the Frankensteins' house in Belrive, he again glimpses the unwelcome presence: I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. ... I was troubled: a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faintness seize me. (95) 16. In Genette's...

...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed - 'Wandering...as your companion, away from the joys of life.' As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman...

...of the natural landscape, when suddenly that power of the gaze is infiltrated by this 'other': ... I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance,...superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed...

...Alpine valleys. He climbed a mountain and the sorrow was gone for a moment. Full of joy Victor screamed "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life" (MS, 101). In the same second he saw a man coming towards him with superhuman speed. Victor was full...

...calls upon the dead and presents them with an alternative — give me happiness or death. He exclaims: "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not...me, as your companion, away from the joys of life" (76). The apostrophe sets out with admitted uncertainty about the place and the nature of its object....

...glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed - 'Wandering...take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.1 As I said this, I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me...