Beloved I / Andy Warhol Presents Flesh For Frankenstein

Please post your longer responses here, and feel free to incorporate any of the secondary readings from last week (especially "How Deep is Your Goth?" if you're responding to the film), as well as Shelley's novel, the Hoffmann tale, etc. etc. if you like. If you'd like to stick to the respond to one sentence format, feel free, though I'd like these longer responses to be structured around a provisional argument or claim. 

Frankenstein II

So for Thursday, I ask that you look closely at Safie's story in pages 98-102. You are welcome to respond to it here, but you can also write about anything we read in class today, or the secondary readings for Thursday. You could also repeat the "respond to one sentence from Frankenstein" prompt. I asked you to think about two questions as you continue reading, one of which was to do with how Shelley negotiates her relationship to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Preface (1818) and Introduction (1831). Does anyone remember the other question? That is a real query...I don't! 

Late Espoused Saint

On his Deceas’d Wife

Methought I saw my late espoused Saint
Brought to me like Alcestis from the Grave,
Whom Jove’s great Son to her glad Husband gave,
Rescu’d from Death by Force though pale and faint.
Mine as whom wash’d from Spot of childbed Taint
Purification in the old Law did save,
And such, as yet once more I trust to have
Full Sight of her in Heav’n without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her Mind:
Her Face was veil’d, yet to my fancied Sight,
Love, Sweetness, Goodness in her Person shined
So clear, as in no Face with more Delight.
But O as to embrace me she inclin’d
I wak’d, she fled, and Day brought back my Night.

Frankenstein I