Presumption or the fate of frankenstein free download

She inculcated in Safie an independence and intelligence that Islam prevented Turkish women from cultivating. Safie was eager to marry a European man and thereby escape the near-slavery that awaited her in Turkey.

They then moved into the cottage in Germany upon which the monster has stumbled. While foraging for food in the woods around the cottage one night, the monster finds an abandoned leather satchel containing some clothes and books.

Eager to learn more about the world than he can discover through the chink in the cottage wall, he brings the books back to his hovel and begins to read.

Unaware that Paradise Lost is a work of imagination, he reads it as a factual history and finds much similarity between the story and his own situation. With his newfound ability to read, he soon understands the horrific manner of his own creation and the disgust with which his creator regarded him. Dismayed by these discoveries, the monster wishes to reveal himself to the cottagers in the hope that they will see past his hideous exterior and befriend him. He decides to approach the blind De Lacey first, hoping to win him over while Felix, Agatha, and Safie are away.

He believes that De Lacey, unprejudiced against his hideous exterior, may be able to convince the others of his gentle nature. The perfect opportunity soon presents itself, as Felix, Agatha, and Safie depart one day for a long walk. The monster nervously enters the cottage and begins to speak to the old man. Just as he begins to explain his situation, however, the other three return unexpectedly. Felix drives the monster away, horrified by his appearance.

In the wake of this rejection, the monster swears to revenge himself against all human beings, his creator in particular. Journeying for months out of sight of others, he makes his way toward Geneva. On the way, he spots a young girl, seemingly alone; the girl slips into a stream and appears to be on the verge of drowning.

When the monster rescues the girl from the water, the man accompanying her, suspecting him of having attacked her, shoots him. When William mentions that his father is Alphonse Frankenstein, the monster erupts in a rage of vengeance and strangles the boy to death with his bare hands. The monster tells Victor that it is his right to have a female monster companion.

He tells Victor that all of his evil actions have been the result of a desperate loneliness. He promises to take his new mate to South America to hide in the jungle far from human contact. With the sympathy of a fellow monster, he argues, he will no longer be compelled to kill. Convinced by these arguments, Victor finally agrees to create a female monster. After his fateful meeting with the monster on the glacier, Victor puts off the creation of a new, female creature.

He realises that the project will require him to travel to England to gather information. His father notices that his spirits are troubled much of the time—Victor, still racked by guilt over the deaths of William and Justine, is now newly horrified by the task in which he is about to engage—and asks him if his impending marriage to Elizabeth is the source of his melancholy. Victor assures him that the prospect of marriage to Elizabeth is the only happiness in his life.

Victor refuses, unwilling to marry Elizabeth until he has completed his obligation to the monster. He asks Alphonse if he can first travel to England, and Alphonse consents. Victor and Alphonse arrange a two-year tour, on which Henry Clerval, eager to begin his studies after several years of unpleasant work for his father in Geneva, will accompany Victor. After travelling for a while, they reach London.

Victor and Henry spend the winter in London, touring that city and making plans to visit the rest of England. The visit delights Henry, while Victor broods and only visits the philosophers who have the latest scientific information. The two go to Oxford, and a friend invites them to visit Scotland. Here, Victor suggests they part ways; he carries on with his plan, unknown to Henry, and fixes upon a poor, relatively uninhabited island in the Orkney Island chain.

Here, Victor can finish his work in solitude and out of sight of anyone who may suspect his intentions. He gathers the latest information about the advances in his field but remains a depressed soul with the thought of what he must do again.

To Victor, this whole odyssey is like torture, as he must gather the raw materials for a second creature. Henry is not aware of Victor's determined efforts and carries out his part of the tour with joy. Victor sets about his work, creating a second female monster. After following Victor and Henry through mainland Europe and England, the monster comes near Victor's workshop in Scotland to see his mate. In a fit of anger and guilt, Victor destroys the half-finished creation in front of the monster and tells the monster he will not continue.

The threat the monster makes is an ominous one: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night. Victor now contemplates who will be the creature's next victim.

He receives a letter from Henry Clerval urging him to come back to London to begin planning a journey to India. Victor rushes to leave his island within two days, once he dismantles the laboratory and hides the remains.

He sets out in a boat around or a. Once the task is complete, he lays down in the boat to rest when the rising sun and wind awaken him. A storm pushes the sailboat out to sea, and Victor finds himself in a dire situation. He fabricates a sail from his own clothes to steer him toward a town near shore. Surprised to find the local folk hostile towards him, he asks, "Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably.

Kirwin, to await sentencing. Victor goes along peacefully. A body has washed ashore; the method of death is familiar, the black marks of fingers on the neck. Since Victor appears around this same time, several people put him near the scene of a crime even though he had not been present. At least two witnesses saw a large creature deposit the body of Henry Clerval on the beach and leave.

Kirwin, the local magistrate, suggests that the whole entourage go to see the body. Victor becomes violently ill and passes two months near death: "The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.

At the trial, Kirwin offers a spirited defence of Victor and manages to secure Victor's release when the court learns of Victor's residence on the Orkney Islands. The time of the murder and Victor's presence in his lab in the Orkney's proves that he did not commit the crime. Alphonse takes Victor home. On their way home, father and son stop in Paris, where Victor rests to recover his strength. Just before leaving again for Geneva, Victor receives a letter from Elizabeth.

He believes that the monster intends to attack him and resolves that he will fight back. Whichever one of them is destroyed, his misery will at last come to an end. Eventually, Victor and his father arrive home and begin planning the wedding. Elizabeth is still worried about Victor, but he assures her that all will be well after the wedding. He has a terrible secret, he tells her, that he can only reveal to her after they are married.

As the wedding day approaches, Victor grows more and more nervous about his impending confrontation with the monster. Finally, the wedding takes place, and Victor and Elizabeth depart for a family cottage to spend the night.

He tells her to retire for the night. He begins to search for the monster in the house, when suddenly he hears Elizabeth scream and realises that it was never his death that the monster had been intending this night.

Shocked by the tragic end of what should have been a joyous day, his father dies a few days later. Victor finally breaks his secrecy and tries to convince a magistrate in Geneva that an unnatural monster is responsible for the death of Elizabeth, but the magistrate does not believe him.

Victor resolves to devote the rest of his life to finding and destroying the monster. Victor leaves Geneva forever, goaded on by the monster's laughter. This edition presents both the full text and relevant contexts of the play, including a comprehensive introduction and extensive notes by the editor, two of the sources of the play, The Gipsy Prince. Published here for the first time, The Gipsy Prince Haymarket, 24 July , was the collaboration of Thomas Moore who composed the libretto and lyrics and Michael Kelly who provided the musical score.

Though it had the Includes text of both pantomime and melodrama, and The Fall of Robespierre. This edition provides an annotated text of the play, supplemented by a wide range of literary and journalistic materials that offer contexts in which to understand the work's place in You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.

Beauty Vs. Search for:. Cover of Presumption. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Felix have gone after Mr. Since this play is a melodramatic adaptation there is more emphasis and amplification of love and relationships as a whole.

Essentially, the play is overly emotional and sentimental, hence the love songs and love confessions. The romances in Peake's play bring forth critiques of marriage and domesticity.

The only married couple is the lower class couple Fritz and Ninon. There is a distinct difference in how they speak to each other in comparison to how Frankenstein talks with Agatha, Felix with Safie, and Clerval and Elizabeth. For example, Ninon yells, "Fritz! Where is my stupid husband? Meanwhile, the unmarried couples speak to their loves with highly poetic language.

For instance, Safie says to Felix, "Fi, Felix! Marriage is present in Mary Shelley's novel with the betrothal of Victor to Elizabeth.

The fact that Victor chooses to stay away and not see Elizabeth in the novel suggests that he was pushing away domesticity as a whole. This is not the case in Peake's play. Frankenstein clearly wants to be with Agatha, as he says, "Agatha, you shall be mine! This play was a popular success at The English Opera House. In a review from July 30, , the London Morning Post stated, "The representation of this play on the stage is of astonishing, of enchanting, interest" Behrendt, First Reviews.

After attending the play herself, Mary Shelley is quoted in a letter saying, "But lo and behold!