...lines on the title page from Milton's Paradise Lost, where Adam is addressing God — is important: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould...Man, did I solicit thee /From darkness to promote me? Mary Shelley's novel is more "relevant" today than it was when she wrote it - a testament to her far-seeing...

...Valdonega. 1,200 copies, Dante type, [see bibliography no. 34] OK, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS. IN THREE VOLUMES. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? PARADISE LOST. VOL. III. PENNYROYAL 92. Pennyroyal Press (Barry Moser); Northampton, Massachusetts...

...Dedication 9 Preface 1 1 FRANKENSTEIN 15 Afterword 269 Further Reading 279 Biography 279 FRANKENSTEIN Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Paradise Lost, x, 743-5 TO WILLIAM GODWIN author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, etc. this volume...

...life worth living. I have asked the Miltonic questions Shelley poses in the epigraph of her novel: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould...man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" With one voice, her monster and I answer "no" without debasing ourselves, for we have done the hard...

...novel, borrowed three verses from John Milton's Paradise Lost to serve as a motto on the title page: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould...man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"28 In quite similar words in a reproach against Victor Frankenstein, his creator, the creature...

...consciousness, argued Habermas, one that echoes Milton in Paradise Lost, quoted by Mary Shelley in Frankenstein: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould...man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?" Similarly, the eugenic intervention in genes and traits constitutes a position of power — and a culprit....

...parallel to Adam's accusation in Milton's Paradise Lost which she used as a frontispiece in Frankenstein: ,,Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee / From 14 darkness to promote me?-"18 All three creatures, Adam, the monster in Frankenstein and the ghost...

...will. Enlightened, Adam asks questions that cut to the heart of the human condition: O fleeting joys Of Paradise dear bought with lasting woes! Did I request Thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me Man? Did I solicit Thee From darkness to promote me or here place In this delicious garden?...

...Frankenstein's creation of his Monster (an outsize parody of the homunculus) and the genesis of Adam: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? [Shelley 1996, p. 3] The Monster, too, compares his own creation to that of Adam. "Remember, that I...