F #8

“I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead” (p.31). In the novel The Arabian Nights, an Arabian is given a wife, but soon after she dies. In this country one is supposed to be buried with their spouse, so this Arabian was buried with her, although he eventually escapes after discovering some light above him. Mary Shelley addresses Frankenstein and how he is like this man; having had discovered a “passage to life,” but was troubled as to actually getting to it.
“Links.” My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 30 Aug. 2009. http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/frankenstein/literaryworks.html