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The Creature hides in an old cottage which is inhabited by a married couple, Felix and Agatha, and Felix's elderly, blind father, De Lacey. The Creature comes to care for them and brings them food in secret. De Lacey finds and befriends the Creature and, over the course of a year, teaches him to speak, read and write.
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The book was nominated for an Agatha Award, [5] and Mystery Readers International Macavity Awards. [6] She subsequently wrote Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in 2018. [7] In 2020, Harkup published Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts. [8]
Lacey introduces his new friend to his granddaughter Agatha and her husband Felix. Terrified by the creature's appearance, Felix attacks him. In the ensuing struggle, the Creature kills Felix. Agatha, fleeing in terror, is struck by a carriage and dies. The Creature takes Agatha's body back to the laboratory, intent on asking Victor to revive her.
Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein is an 1823 play in three acts by Richard Brinsley Peake loosely based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. It is the first recorded theatrical adaptation of the novel [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and had 37 performances during its original run.
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The eight lines from "Mutability" which are quoted in Frankenstein occur in Chapter 10 when Victor Frankenstein climbs Glacier Montanvert in the Swiss Alps and encounters the Creature. Frankenstein recites: "We rest. – A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. – One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or ...
The Bride of Frankenstein appears in the 1973 British television film Frankenstein: The True Story portrayed by Jane Seymour. This incarnation of the Bride is created using the head of a peasant girl named Agatha and a body created by the evil Dr. Polidori while using a chemical reanimation process.