{"product_id":"therefore-shelley-frankenstein-1818-journal","title":"Therefore — Shelley Frankenstein (1818) Journal","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Shelley was eighteen when she began \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, a guest in a rented villa on Lake Geneva during the coldest summer in recorded history. The Creature's words in this line aren't a threat — they're a declaration from something that had just learned it had the right to make one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Creature doesn't threaten Victor with violence — he reasons with him. You abandoned me. Fear was the last thing keeping me in check, and it's gone now. What's left is clarity. Shelley understood that the most destabilizing thing a person can become is someone who has nothing left to lose — not in a desperate sense, but in a decided one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFEARLESS, and POWERFUL. dominate the cover in bold solid type. BEWARE; sits above them in gray outline — large, but carrying less weight, the way a warning carries less weight than the thing it's warning about. No rules, no ornaments. The cover holds both the warning and the thing that makes it necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same declaration lives on the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/therefore-shelley-frankenstein-1818-t-shirt\"\u003eTherefore Tee\u003c\/a\u003e. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/mary-shelley\"\u003efull Mary Shelley collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Journal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 5.5″ × 8.5″ — fits a bag, opens flat on a desk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover — holds up to daily use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLined pages — ruled, ready for whatever you’re working through\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLay-flat binding — no fighting the spine mid-thought\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElastic closure — keeps it shut between sessions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe person who has stopped explaining themselves. Who writes to work through what they actually think — not to perform thinking. Who knows what it feels like to reach the conclusion the Creature reached, and wants to keep a record of getting there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrite your conclusion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1797–1851, daughter of two of the most radical thinkers of the era (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBegan \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e at eighteen, on a dare during a storm-bound summer in Geneva; published it at twenty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished it anonymously at first — the book was widely assumed to have been written by Percy Shelley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Creature’s argument is Shelley’s sharpest: power doesn’t come from force, it comes from the removal of fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42641030185054,"sku":"7475434_16952","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Therefore_Journal_Mary_Shelley.png?v=1776048697","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/therefore-shelley-frankenstein-1818-journal","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}