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Frankenstein
| Author: | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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| Tags: | Classics English Fiction Fiction / Classics Frankenstein Horror - General Literature - Classics / Criticism Literature: Classics Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 | |
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| Language: | English | |
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| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/84 | |
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... The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced. She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad. This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble emulation for virtue....