Mary Shelley
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 first edition) — spoken by the Creature
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Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 first edition) — spoken by the Creature
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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
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The Creature isn’t threatening Victor so much as reasoning with him — laying out, with cold logic, that a being with nothing left to fear has nothing left to hold him back. Shelley wrote it young and published Frankenstein anonymously, before the world was ready to credit the founding text of science fiction to a woman.
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Just in case you need a reminder. Be fearless.
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