Frankenstein

"I have reached their acme" (Shelley, 146). Acme is defined as "the highest point or stage". Victor Frankenstein believe...

"The cup of life poisoned forever...I saw nothing around me but a dense and frightful darkness" (Shelley, 134). Ever since Victor ...

"...with a devouring maladie du pays" (Shelley, 134). Maladie du pays means homesickness in French. Victor is homesick for his old...

"We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden.. that patriot fell" (Shelley, 117). John Hampden was a decedent of royal blood in...

"The memory of that unfortunate king... the insolent Goring" (Shelley, 116). Lord George Goring was another Royalist during the ci...

"The memory of that unfortunate king... the amiable Falkland" (Shelley, 116). Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, took part in th...

"The sounding cataract... Unborrow'd from the eye" (Shelley, 113). This allusion is taken out of the poem Tintern Abbey , by...