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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, nascida Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , mais conhecida por Mary Shelley, foi uma escritora britânica, filha do filósofo William Godwin e da feminista e escritora Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Shelley foi autora de contos, dramaturga, ensaísta, biógrafa e escritora de literatura de viagens, mais conhecida por seu romance gótico, Frankenstein: ou O Moderno Prometeu . Ela também editou e promoveu os trabalhos de seu marido, o poeta romântico e filósofo Percy Bysshe Shelley, com quem se casou em 1816, após o suicídio de sua primeira esposa.

A mãe de Mary morreu após 10 dias do seu nascimento; ela e sua meia-irmã, Fanny Imlay, foram criadas por seu pai. Quando Mary tinha quatro anos, Godwin casou-se com uma vizinha, Mary Jane Clairmont. Godwin deu à sua filha uma rica e informal educação, encorajando-a a aderir às suas teorias políticas liberais. Em 1814, Mary Godwin iniciou um relacionamento amoroso com um dos seguidores políticos de seu pai, o casado Percy Bysshe Shelley. Junto com a irmã adotiva de Mary, Claire Clairmont, eles partem para a França e viajam pela Europa; uma vez retornando a Inglaterra, Mary fica grávida de Percy. Durante os próximos dois anos, ela e Percy enfrentam o ostracismo, dívidas e a morte da filha prematura. Eles se casaram em 1816 após o suicídio da primeira mulher de Percy Shelley, Harriet.

Em 1816, o famoso casal passou o verão com Lord Byron, John William Polidori, e Claire Clairmont próximos de Genebra, Suíça, onde Mary concebe a ideia de seu romance Frankenstein. Os Shelleys deixam a Grã-Bretanha em 1818 e vão para a Itália, onde o segundo e o terceiro filhos morrem antes do nascimento de seu último e único sobrevivente filho, Percy Florence. Em 1822, seu marido afogou-se quando seu barco afundou durante uma tempestade na Baía de La Spezia. Um ano depois, Mary Shelley retornou a Inglaterra, devotando-se, desde então à educação de seu filho e à carreira como autora profissional. A última década de sua vida foi marcada pela doença, provavelmente causada pelo tumor cerebral que a iria matar aos 53 anos de idade.

Até os anos 70, Mary Shelley era conhecida principalmente por seus esforços em publicar os trabalhos de Percy Shelley e pelo romance Frankenstein, que permanece sendo lido mundialmente e tendo inspirado muitas peças de teatro e adaptações para o cinema. Os estudos atuais renderam uma visão mais abrangente das realizações de Mary Shelley. Estudiosos demonstraram mais interesse em sua carreira literária, particularmente seus romances, que incluem romances históricas Valperga e The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck , o romance apocalíptico The Last Man , e seus últimos dois romances, Lodore e Falkner . Estudos de seus últimos trabalhos conhecidos como o livro de viagens Rambles in Germany and Italy e os artigos biográficos de Dionysius Lardner's, Cabinet Cyclopaedia , serviram de base e visualização de que Mary Shelley permaneceu uma política radical por toda a vida. O trabalho de Mary Shelley frequentemente discute que essa cooperação e simpatia, particularmente praticada pelas mulheres na família, eram maneiras de se reformar a sociedade civil. Esta visão foi um desafio direto ao caráter romântico individualista promovido por Percy Shelley e as teorias políticas iluministas articuladas por seu pai, William Godwin. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Agosto 1797 – 1. Fevereiro 1851   •   Outros nomes ਮੇਰੀ ਸ਼ੈਲੀ
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Mary Shelley Frases famosas

“O mundo precisa de justiça, não de caridade.”

Mary Shelley

“Nada contribui tanto para tranqüilizar a mente quanto um objetivo claro - um ponto sobre o qual a alma possa fixar seu olhar intelectual.”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus‎ - Página 4 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=5twBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA4, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - 280 páginas

“A mesma energia de carácter que transforma um homem num vilão perigoso poderia reverter a bem da sociedade se esta estivesse bem organizada.”

Mary Shelley

“Decidido a deixar para sempre este mundo e suas misérias, por fim, passei a vagar por estas montanhas, galgando suas escarpas, consumido por um anseio que somente você pode satisfazer. Você não deve ir embora antes de me prometer o que vou lhe pedir. Sinto-me só e miserável. O ser humano jamais aceitará minha companhia, mas alguém tão deformado e horrendo como eu não se negará a isso. Minha companheira deve ser da mesma espécie e ter os mesmos defeitos. Você tem de criar esse ser.”

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley frases e citações

“O começo é sempre hoje.”

Mary Shelley

“Nada, exceto o mutável, pode perdurar!”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Frankenstein

“Inventar, deve-se admitir humildemente, não consiste em criar algo do nada, mas sim do caos.”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Frankenstein

De cães

“Tudo deve ter um início; e esse início deve estar ligado a algo que já existiu antes.”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Frankenstein

“Se o estudo ao qual a pessoa se dedica tende a enfraquecer seus afetos e a destruir o gosto por aqueles prazeres simples que não se deveriam deixar contaminar, nesse caso tal estudo é decerto injustificado, ou seja, impróprio à mente humana.”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Estude , De pessoas , De prazer

“Nada é mais doloroso para a alma humana do que a lassidão, o trágico
marasmo, que sobrevêm à rápida seqüência de fatos e sentimentos tumultuosos,
como a paisagem desoladora da floresta após a passagem destruidora da
tormenta”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Alma

“A minha alimentação não é a dos homens. Não tenho que matar cordeiros e cabras para saciar o meu apetite; as glandes e as bagas bastam-me.”

Mary Shelley Frankenstein

My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus‎ - Página 79 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=5twBAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA79, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 - 280 páginas

De homens

“A invenção, devo modestamente admiti-lo, não consiste em criar disciplinadamente, mas sim em criar a partir do caos.”

Mary Shelley
De cães

Mary Shelley: Frases em inglês

“I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Fonte: The Journals of Mary Shelley

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”

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Fonte: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”

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The monster to Robert Walton
Frankenstein (1818)
Fonte: Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
Contexto: I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!”

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Fonte: Frankenstein

“Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The Last Man

Fonte: The Last Man

“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”

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“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

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Fonte: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories." Still I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air—the indulging in waking dreams—the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents. My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein, quoted by Robert Walton in "Letter 4"
Frankenstein (1818)

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”

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Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 3
Frankenstein (1818)

“The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me…”

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Journal entry on the writing of her science-fiction novel The Last Man (14 May 1824)

“My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”

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The monster in Ch. 15
Frankenstein (1818)

“The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will be of the same nature as myself and will be content with the same fare. We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food. The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty.”

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The monster to Victor Frankenstein in Ch. 17
Frankenstein (1818)

“I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me—"How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?"”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“I busied myself to think of a story, — a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name.”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.”

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Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

“One thing I will add: if I have ever found kindness, it has not been from Liberals; to disengage myself from them was the first act of my freedom.”

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Letter to Edward Trelawny (27 January 1837). Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=ED9bAAAAMAAJ&dq=if%20i%20have%20ever%20found%20kindness%2C%20it%20has%20not%20been%20from%20the%20liberals&pg=PA283#v=onepage&q=if%20i%20have%20ever%20found%20kindness,%20it%20has%20not%20been%20from%20the%20liberals&f=false

“At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone … & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world….”

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Journal (15 May 1824)