“Treat a person ill and he will become wicked. Requite affection with scorn; let one being be selected for whatever cause as the refuse of his kind - divide him, a social being, from society, and you impose upon him the irresistible obligations - malevolence and selfishness. It is thus that too often in society those who are best qualified to be its benefactors and its ornaments are branded by some accident with scorn, and changed by neglect and solitude of heart into a scourge and a curse."This series has been transferred to the Riskail Blog where it will continue onwards with a tour of the grounds, a rogues' gallery of the Grim Cabal and much, much more. We hope that you'll come check it out...
"On Frankenstein" (1818), Percy B. Shelley