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  2. Mutability (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The eight lines from "Mutability" which are quoted in Frankenstein occur in Chapter 10 when Victor Frankenstein climbs Glacier Montanvert in the Swiss Alps and encounters the Creature. Frankenstein recites: "We rest. – A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. – One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or ...

  3. Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously ...

  4. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    "Frankenstein" Horror Show: Iced Earth: Frankenstein: Mary Shelley [100] "Franz Kafka" Scäb: The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka: A fictional rock opera by the fictional band Scäb from the cartoon series Home Movies. [101] "From the Underworld" Paradise Lost: The Herd: Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice: Loosely based on the Greek legend of Orpheus and ...

  5. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah - Wikipedia

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    The nyah-nyah tune features a descending minor third. Play ⓘ "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah" is the lexigraphic representation of a common children's chant.It is a rendering of one common vocalization for a six-note musical figure [note 1] that is usually associated with children and found in many European-derived cultures, and which is often used in taunting.

  6. Frankenstein in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein, a play adapted by Christine Davey, premiered at La Mama Courthouse in 2023. This production updates the original story to explore the themes of gender rights, wealth, class and the patriarchy. [37] Frankenstein, a play adaptation by Shake & Stair Theatre Co, premiered at Queensland Performing Arts Centre in 2023. [38]

  7. Gothic aspects in Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Max Duperray explains that the choice of the term "horror" served to distinguish a later school within the Gothic movement, which Frankenstein is partly part of: "[...] whereas the early novels separate good and evil with an insurmountable barrier," he writes, "the later ones usher in the era of moral ambiguity, involving the reader more deeply in the mysteries of the transgressive ...

  8. Johann Konrad Dippel - Wikipedia

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    In his book Frankenstein: The First 200 Years, Christopher Frayling refers to a passage in Mary's diaries later in her life in which she expresses a desire to return to the region surrounding Castle Frankenstein to take in more of its folklore—implying that she is already familiar with at least some of the local legends. [18]

  9. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, chapter 5, Victor Frankenstein quotes the lines: "Like one, that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread / And, having once turned round, walks on / And turns no more his head / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread" (Penguin Popular Classic 1968 page 57, cited from Rime, 1817 ...