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1  If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
2  I had a persuasion that I should be supposed mad, and this in itself would forever have chained my tongue.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  For they had called me mad, and during many months, as I understood, a solitary cell had been my habitation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  My tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  I am not mad," I cried energetically; "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
6  I remembered, shuddering, the mad enthusiasm that hurried me on to the creation of my hideous enemy, and I called to mind the night in which he first lived.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
9  But to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation of mind had much the appearance of madness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
10  Memory brought madness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
11  My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2
12  After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
13  I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4