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[SOFT RAIN PATTERING]
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[CROW CALLING]
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[PENCIL WRITING]
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[MARY BREATHING SOFTLY]
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[DISTANT CROWS CALLS]
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[WRITING CONTINUES]
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[MARY WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
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[WRITING CONTINUES]
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[GENTLE DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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[WRITING STOPS]
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MARY:
Scarcely had the demon cast
his burning stare upon her.
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Scarcely had...
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...the demon cast
his burning stare upon her...
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...leaving his face
entirely without symmetry...
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...leaving his face entirely without form...
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...and as her fingertips
touched upon his lips...
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...he melted into her.
- [THUNDER RUMBLES]
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[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
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[HORSE WHINNIES]
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- She's looking for you.
- [MUSIC FADES]
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WILLIAM: Next time you run off to read
ghost stories, take me with you.
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Who says I was reading ghost stories?
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- It's thrilling, isn't it?
- My heart was racing, I was so scared.
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If I were you, I'd be more scared
of your father catching you reading it.
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I don't know how he vexes so.
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People liked his Gothic novels.
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Your father is in the bookshop working.
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Claire has been tending to the house.
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I have spent all hours
going through the ledgers.
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Where were you today that you couldn't
relieve your father for a few hours?
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I completed my work for today.
I just went out for some fresh air.
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I know where you were.
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Look who has returned, my dear.
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I just went out for a walk.
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[DISTANT CHATTER ON THE STREET]
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GODWIN: Glad to see you devoting
yourself to these great works, Mary.
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[BELL ON DOOR JINGLES]
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"To love reading is to have
everything within your reach."
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[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
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MAN: Payment is over-due, Mr. Godwin.
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Need I remind you
of the conditions of your loan?
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GODWIN: Business has been very poor.
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Allow me one more month.
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MAN: Another month? It's six months already.
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Now, weren't you asking for a ghost story?
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- Is it a new one?
- MAN: Another month. Understand?
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[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
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MARY: I will rise from the grave...
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...to tell the tale of the treachery
I have suffered.
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And to seek my revenge!
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[GIGGLING]
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[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
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MARY:
Scarcely had the demon cast...
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...his burning stare upon her...
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...in her icy cheeks...
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[CLAIRE WHIMPERING]
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[FRETTING INDISTINCTLY]
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Claire, Claire. Claire!
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It's just a nightmare.
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It's all right.
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Go back to sleep.
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- It's all right.
- [CLAIRE WHIMPERS]
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Go back to sleep.
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[CLOCK BELLS RINGING IN THE DISTANCE]
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[QUIET, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
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GODWIN: You can't sleep?
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Do you miss her?
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GODWIN: She was so full of passion.
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So full of defiance.
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As if she were at war constantly
with everyone and everything.
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And enjoying every moment of the battle.
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Warriors like your mother
are never long for this world.
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[DISTANT CHATTER ON THE STREET]
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MARY:
The Devil's claws
lunged at the maiden's neck.
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Sinking his talons...
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...deep, deep into her ripe, pale skin.
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Blood dripped...
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...like tracks in milky snow.
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- MRS. GODWIN: Mary?
- MARY:
She screamed.
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MRS. GODWIN: Where are you?
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[FOOTSTEPS]
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No one watching the shop, and you
back here scribbling away like a child.
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Let's see what's so important that it's
kept you from your work, shall we?
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- It is private.
- [SCOFFS]
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What thoughts haunt the daughter
of these esteemed writers?
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- Let go!
- [GASPING]
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- Mary.
- She pushed me!
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- Did you not see her...
- I didn't do anything.
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- You all right?
- I can't live with someone like this.
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There's not a grain of respect in her.
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- MARY: I didn't do anything!
- That's enough. That's enough.
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GODWIN: [VOICEOVER]
He's an old friend.
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Mr. Baxter is as firm a believer
in education as I am.
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You'll find his house very comfortable.
- MARY:
Scotland?
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GODWIN:
I'm sending you away
because I love you, Mary.
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And because I sincerely hope that you'll
find the refuge that you need there.
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[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
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Also that the solitude
will give you time for introspection.
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Your writing...
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...this is the work of an imitator.
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Rid yourself of the thoughts
and words of other people, Mary.
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Find your own voice.
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[WHIMPERING]
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[BIRDS SINGING]
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Mary! Welcome. Oh, my God,
you look so much like your mother.
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And, thank the Lord, not a thing
like your father. I'm William Baxter.
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This is my daughter Isabel.
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We'll do our best to keep you
amused out here, Mary.
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It may not be as bustling as London...
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...but I'm sure we can find
some ways to pass the time.
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The night is so different here.
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How do people sleep with all this silence?
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Come on, I know just where to go.
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ISABEL:
I've thought of trying to summon my mother...
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- ...by séance.
- [BRANCHES CRACKLING]
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But she suffered so long with illness...
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...what if she has finally
found peace at last?
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Wouldn't it be cruel to disturb her?
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MARY: Do you think it could really work...
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...reaching the dead?
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[INSECTS CHIRPING]
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I already feel her presence.
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I miss her so much.
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Not a day goes by when I don't think of her.
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Would you ever consider trying
to contact your mother?
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Maybe she wouldn't want me to.
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Given I was the one who killed her.
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She died just days after I was born.
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Oh, Mary.
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- [WIND RUSTLES]
- [MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
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[WATER RUSHING]
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[PLEASANT, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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I love it in Scotland.
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- Nothing is as I expected it would be.
- [LAUGHS]
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You've only been here
a few weeks. Give it time.
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In London it's not often we have
occasion to picnic by the river.
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Your mistake is waiting for an occasion.
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[GIGGLES]
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[WIND RUSTLING]
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COLERIDGE: [RECITING] I looked upon
the rotting sea and drew my eyes away
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I looked upon the rotting deck
And there the dead men lay
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I looked to Heaven and tried to pray
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But before a prayer had gushed
A wicked whisper came...
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BAXTER: Come in. Come in.
You must be freezing.
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If I could just give you
a couple of my essays.
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[WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
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My contribution
to this evening's entertainment.
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- BAXTER: How are you?
- SHELLEY: Good. How's the party?
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Isabel... who is that?
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Oh, that's Shelley.
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Beautiful, isn't he? He's a radical poet.
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He thinks poetry should reform society,
and so he's often in trouble.
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MARY: Sounds like quite a catch.
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- Let me introduce you to some friends.
- BAXTER: There's someone I'd like you to meet.
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Good luck.
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- Percy, may I present Mary. Mary...
- COLERIDGE: Baxter! Come and join us!
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Oh, it's Coleridge. Mary, could you
put these nameplates out, please?
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Let me get those for you.
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I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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I am Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin.
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Of course. Baxter mentioned
you'd be joining the family here.
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I am a great admirer
of both your parents' work.
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MARY: I hope I can entrust you
to this task, Mr. Shelley.
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- Or will you try to incite me to revolution?
- SHELLEY: My reputation precedes me.
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Won't you welcome a change
from the deafening quiet?
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MARY: I've grown accustomed to it.
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In London I spend most
of my time in my father's bookshop.
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So the deafening quiet is not
as dramatic as you may think.
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Baxter does his best for these gatherings.
Any lover of poetry will surely find a...
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...great thrill in the work
that is being presented here.
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So surely you are a writer yourself?
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Not really. Nothing substantial.
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I hope to, someday.
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And what, may I ask, would you constitute
as "substantial" in your eyes?
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Anything that curdles the blood...
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...and quickens the beatings of the heart.
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BAXTER: Ah, perfect!
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Now may I steal Mr. Shelley away?
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- We would love a poem, sir.
- Certainly, sir.
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Without an audience,
ideas remain mere words on a page.
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- SERVANT WOMAN: Mr. Shelley, your essay.
- Oh, I have no need for those.
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Thank you. I shall trust
in the spark of new found inspiration.
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[GUESTS CHATTERING]
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Oh, not the visioned poet in his dreams...
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...when silvery clouds float
through the wildered brain...
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...when every sight of lovely,
wild and grand...
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...astonishes...
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...enraptures...
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...elevates...
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...so bright...
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...so fair, so wild a shape...
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...hath ever yet beheld as that
which reined the coursers of the air...
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...and poured the magic of her gaze...
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...upon the maiden's sleep.
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[DRAMATIC, ROMANTIC MUSIC]
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[GUESTS CHATTER]
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COLERIDGE: [RECITING]
Alone, alone, all alone...
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...upon the wide, wide sea...
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...and God will not take pity...
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- ...on my soul in agony.
- [MAN LAUGHING]
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- This weather.
- Ah, stop complaining.
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- It's Scotland, what do you expect?
- So I say to you...
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...if all things come from God
and we all come from God...
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...are we not part of God?
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When we think, do we not behold
the very thoughts of God?
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- Can't say I feel like much of a god.
- Your body is tired, Baxter...
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...but your spirit, it longs to soar.
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What of you, Miss Godwin?
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Do you think you are of God...
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...like the great poet Coleridge?
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[BIRDS CHIRPING]
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I'll admit...
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...I thought Coleridge was much more
captivating when I was a child.
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There you go.
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I'm surprised you can remember back that far.
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COLERIDGE:
Behold the majesty of God's creation...
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Well, just how old are you then...
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...dear ancient one?
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Old enough to know why you are asking.
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Ah.
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COLERIDGE:
It's inspirational, don't you think?
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- I'm 16.
- Hmm.
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- How about you?
- 21.
225
00:17:48,273 --> 00:17:50,546
- A wise old man indeed.
- [LAUGHTER]
226
00:17:55,764 --> 00:17:59,162
SHELLEY:
As mountain springs
under the morning sun...
227
00:17:59,242 --> 00:18:01,497
...we shall become the same...
228
00:18:01,577 --> 00:18:04,850
...we shall be one spirit
within two frames...
229
00:18:05,431 --> 00:18:08,313
...oh, wherefore two?
230
00:18:08,393 --> 00:18:11,424
One passion in twin hearts
which grows and grew...
231
00:18:11,505 --> 00:18:14,319
...till like two meteors
of expanding flame...
232
00:18:14,399 --> 00:18:18,123
...those spheres instinct with it
become the same...
233
00:18:18,203 --> 00:18:22,670
...touch, mingle
are transfigured ever still...
234
00:18:22,750 --> 00:18:26,364
- [KNOCK ON THE DOOR]
-
...burning, yet inconsumable...
235
00:18:26,445 --> 00:18:28,541
[GENTLE, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
236
00:18:33,719 --> 00:18:35,264
Mary...
237
00:18:36,361 --> 00:18:39,167
...I'm afraid I have some
terrible news from London.
238
00:18:40,826 --> 00:18:42,847
It's your sister Claire.
239
00:18:47,122 --> 00:18:48,739
MARY:
May I ask you...
240
00:18:48,819 --> 00:18:51,698
...could you tell Mr. Shelley I said goodbye?
241
00:18:53,371 --> 00:18:54,814
Of course.
242
00:19:08,729 --> 00:19:10,807
[CHATTER]
243
00:19:13,909 --> 00:19:16,181
Was Scotland everything I said it would be?
244
00:19:16,261 --> 00:19:18,033
Were you happy?
245
00:19:18,113 --> 00:19:19,926
MARY: I was.
246
00:19:22,908 --> 00:19:25,974
You will live again, Mary.
You have your mother's spirit.
247
00:19:26,054 --> 00:19:28,114
You won't be confined for long.
248
00:19:38,048 --> 00:19:40,742
She's been like this for weeks.
249
00:19:56,542 --> 00:19:57,989
Claire?
250
00:19:59,237 --> 00:20:01,851
Thank God! You're finally back!
251
00:20:07,077 --> 00:20:09,025
So you aren't dying?
252
00:20:10,148 --> 00:20:12,244
Only from boredom.
253
00:20:14,169 --> 00:20:16,207
You mean you weren't sick at all?
254
00:20:18,023 --> 00:20:21,052
Well... maybe a little bit.
255
00:20:22,636 --> 00:20:24,700
[CHATTER]
256
00:20:24,930 --> 00:20:27,208
[LIGHT MUSIC]
257
00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:34,317
SHELLEY:
Poor captive bird!
258
00:20:34,397 --> 00:20:37,437
Who, from thy narrow cage
pourest such music...
259
00:20:37,517 --> 00:20:41,917
...that it might assuage the rugged hearts
of those who prisoned thee...
260
00:20:42,698 --> 00:20:45,661
...were they not deaf towards sweet melody...
261
00:20:45,741 --> 00:20:48,138
...this song shall be thy rose...
262
00:20:48,218 --> 00:20:53,103
...its petals pale are dead, indeed...
263
00:20:53,183 --> 00:20:55,795
...my adored Nightingale!
264
00:20:57,663 --> 00:21:00,224
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
- [CHATTER]
265
00:21:02,751 --> 00:21:07,593
It seems my mother's latest reverie
is a young protégé for your father.
266
00:21:07,673 --> 00:21:11,336
We are all to be on our best behavior
at dinner tonight to win him over.
267
00:21:11,416 --> 00:21:14,030
He's wealthy, evidently.
268
00:21:14,505 --> 00:21:18,778
She's a woman of indomitable hope,
I can't deny her that.
269
00:21:21,902 --> 00:21:23,830
[GODWIN CLEARS HIS THROAT]
270
00:21:27,676 --> 00:21:32,758
GODWIN: Mr. Percy Shelley,
may I present Mrs. Godwin, my wife.
271
00:21:33,499 --> 00:21:38,091
And our children, William, Claire and Mary.
272
00:21:38,712 --> 00:21:40,299
Delighted.
273
00:21:42,317 --> 00:21:44,555
My husband tells me
you're a poet, Mr. Shelley.
274
00:21:44,635 --> 00:21:47,032
He speaks very highly of your work.
275
00:21:47,112 --> 00:21:50,385
Well, I am humbled
by his praise, Mrs. Godwin.
276
00:21:50,466 --> 00:21:53,729
I must admit, though,
my work is not yet widely known.
277
00:21:53,809 --> 00:21:57,736
Although I have just completed my
second volume which awaits publication.
278
00:21:57,816 --> 00:22:00,506
GODWIN: Very impressive achievement
for such a young man.
279
00:22:00,586 --> 00:22:02,514
SHELLEY: Any achievement of mine
falls within the shadow...
280
00:22:02,604 --> 00:22:05,125
- ...of your influence, Mr. Godwin.
- You flatter me.
281
00:22:05,205 --> 00:22:09,037
SHELLEY: Hope you will consider my proposal
to take me on as your protégé.
282
00:22:09,117 --> 00:22:12,037
I have a considerable allowance
at my disposal...
283
00:22:12,578 --> 00:22:16,627
...and would gladly reimburse you
for any time you might spare.
284
00:22:17,207 --> 00:22:20,841
Well, I feel duty bound to...
285
00:22:20,921 --> 00:22:24,526
...foster such ability.
286
00:22:25,776 --> 00:22:27,499
Well, then, that's settled.
287
00:22:29,429 --> 00:22:33,528
How fortunate we are to be
in the presence of two great minds.
288
00:22:34,910 --> 00:22:37,433
MRS. GODWIN:
You must see our bookshop, Mr. Shelley.
289
00:22:37,513 --> 00:22:40,794
GODWIN: I have a copy
of "The Iliad" in the original Greek.
290
00:22:41,525 --> 00:22:42,696
Hmm.
291
00:22:42,776 --> 00:22:45,807
Perhaps Mary will show it
to you after dinner.
292
00:22:49,124 --> 00:22:51,012
How are you here?
293
00:22:51,702 --> 00:22:56,237
Does it seem so strange that I would seek out
the tutelage of the great William Godwin?
294
00:22:58,909 --> 00:23:01,756
Clearly I'm not only here to see your father.
295
00:23:02,853 --> 00:23:04,883
Then why are you here?
296
00:23:07,007 --> 00:23:10,431
To once again feel
the curdling of my blood...
297
00:23:10,511 --> 00:23:13,915
...and the quickening
of the beatings of my heart.
298
00:23:17,828 --> 00:23:19,240
Mary?
299
00:23:20,145 --> 00:23:22,043
Mr. Shelley?
300
00:23:23,023 --> 00:23:25,487
Your father would like to see Mr. Shelley.
301
00:23:27,903 --> 00:23:29,700
Thank you.
302
00:23:29,780 --> 00:23:35,439
I will be with him momentarily.
I'm quite enjoying the, uh, collection.
303
00:23:36,730 --> 00:23:38,585
So I see.
304
00:23:39,915 --> 00:23:41,963
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
305
00:23:42,753 --> 00:23:48,002
As I was saying, both your parents
are a great source of inspiration to me.
306
00:23:48,098 --> 00:23:50,522
My mother died when I was ten days old.
307
00:23:51,086 --> 00:23:53,182
I'm sorry, I had no idea.
308
00:23:54,179 --> 00:23:55,769
Don't be sorry.
309
00:23:55,849 --> 00:23:58,070
I love to talk about her.
310
00:23:58,268 --> 00:24:01,197
Even if I never truly knew her.
311
00:24:01,937 --> 00:24:05,611
All of the contradictions she embodied.
312
00:24:05,691 --> 00:24:07,914
All anyone ever talks about...
313
00:24:08,153 --> 00:24:10,701
...now is how she wanted to go off...
314
00:24:10,781 --> 00:24:14,037
...and live with a married man and his wife...
315
00:24:14,117 --> 00:24:16,338
...in a ménage à trois.
316
00:24:16,495 --> 00:24:18,424
And what do you think about...
317
00:24:18,872 --> 00:24:20,293
...all that?
318
00:24:20,373 --> 00:24:22,595
I have no problem with it.
319
00:24:23,752 --> 00:24:26,599
People should live and love as they wish.
320
00:24:27,798 --> 00:24:29,970
But one thing I've never understood is...
321
00:24:30,050 --> 00:24:32,763
...why did two radicals
such as your parents...
322
00:24:32,843 --> 00:24:34,433
...succumb to marriage?
323
00:24:34,513 --> 00:24:37,193
To legitimize me.
324
00:24:40,976 --> 00:24:42,549
Meet me...
325
00:24:42,896 --> 00:24:44,408
...tomorrow.
326
00:24:44,923 --> 00:24:46,794
Just tell me where.
327
00:24:50,028 --> 00:24:52,333
There is a place I go alone.
328
00:24:53,907 --> 00:24:55,996
I'm not sure what you'll make of it.
329
00:24:56,076 --> 00:24:58,499
[DELICATE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
330
00:24:58,579 --> 00:25:01,175
MARY:
My sanctuary of sorts.
331
00:25:02,998 --> 00:25:06,010
SHELLEY:
Then it will be my sanctuary, too.
332
00:25:19,264 --> 00:25:21,445
I come here whenever I can.
333
00:25:22,643 --> 00:25:25,156
Just to feel her embrace.
334
00:25:27,898 --> 00:25:29,863
My father taught me to read...
335
00:25:29,943 --> 00:25:32,115
...by tracing the letters of her name.
336
00:25:32,195 --> 00:25:34,000
[WIND BLOWING]
337
00:25:36,575 --> 00:25:39,421
I don't know what it is I'm waiting for here.
338
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,425
Maybe you're just waiting
for someone to reach out and...
339
00:25:45,208 --> 00:25:47,677
...return your embrace.
340
00:25:53,341 --> 00:25:56,139
- [THUNDER ROLLING]
- [MARY PANTING]
341
00:25:56,219 --> 00:25:58,483
I thought we would never escape the rain.
342
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,978
I think I'd rather suffer the deluge outside.
343
00:26:03,058 --> 00:26:04,855
If God is everywhere...
344
00:26:04,935 --> 00:26:07,693
...then why must Man erect temples to Him?
345
00:26:07,773 --> 00:26:09,485
Because it is your imagination...
346
00:26:09,565 --> 00:26:11,530
...that is the instrument of moral good...
347
00:26:11,610 --> 00:26:14,290
...not these four walls.
348
00:26:17,365 --> 00:26:20,080
Let's see if the Great Creator
strikes us down.
349
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,963
[GRUNTS]
350
00:26:24,204 --> 00:26:28,839
You shall fear the Lord your God.
351
00:26:28,919 --> 00:26:31,006
Thrones, altars...
352
00:26:31,086 --> 00:26:32,718
...judgement seats, and prisons...
353
00:26:32,798 --> 00:26:37,097
...they are all part of one
gigantic, despotic system...
354
00:26:37,177 --> 00:26:41,776
...designed to crush the soul of Man.
355
00:26:42,766 --> 00:26:46,110
Their empty covenant has no power over us.
356
00:26:48,854 --> 00:26:50,901
I fear not of God...
357
00:26:50,981 --> 00:26:52,653
...or His henchmen on Earth.
358
00:26:52,733 --> 00:26:54,581
Hmm.
359
00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:57,826
[DISTANT THUD]
360
00:26:57,906 --> 00:26:59,244
Someone's here.
361
00:26:59,324 --> 00:27:01,246
[DISTANT THUD]
362
00:27:01,326 --> 00:27:03,038
Percy.
363
00:27:03,118 --> 00:27:04,673
Percy.
364
00:27:06,081 --> 00:27:08,953
SHELLEY:
So the Judgment Day is upon us already.
365
00:27:10,335 --> 00:27:11,734
DEACON: Hello?
366
00:27:14,715 --> 00:27:16,643
Is anyone there?
367
00:27:17,593 --> 00:27:19,854
[LAUGHING QUIETLY]
368
00:27:34,024 --> 00:27:36,089
[MUSIC SWELLS]
369
00:27:51,209 --> 00:27:52,172
[MUSIC FADES]
370
00:27:52,252 --> 00:27:55,759
Oh, Mr. Shelley, it is a real book.
371
00:27:55,839 --> 00:28:00,013
Your name looks so good
in that gold typeface.
372
00:28:00,093 --> 00:28:01,181
I'm sure it will be more popular...
373
00:28:01,261 --> 00:28:04,190
...than your treatise
on the virtues of atheism.
374
00:28:05,015 --> 00:28:07,187
GODWIN: Ghost stories and romance
novels might sell, my dear...
375
00:28:07,267 --> 00:28:10,041
...but it's books that challenge
the common doctrine and superstition...
376
00:28:10,121 --> 00:28:12,317
...that will truly endure.
377
00:28:12,397 --> 00:28:15,010
We rely on brave works like this...
378
00:28:15,090 --> 00:28:18,048
...to push the world
out of its misery and delusion.
379
00:28:18,128 --> 00:28:19,974
Well done, sir.
380
00:28:20,551 --> 00:28:22,375
I hope you like it, Miss Godwin.
381
00:28:24,224 --> 00:28:26,104
I'm sure I will.
382
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:36,915
SHELLEY: [WHISPERING]
Read it when you're alone.
383
00:28:50,726 --> 00:28:52,623
- Oh, give it to me!
- [LAUGHS]
384
00:28:52,703 --> 00:28:55,792
Give it to me. Please, Mary. Mary.
385
00:28:57,175 --> 00:28:59,990
"The sunlight clasp the Earth...
386
00:29:00,070 --> 00:29:02,493
...and the moonbeams kiss the sea...
387
00:29:02,573 --> 00:29:04,685
...what are all these kissings worth..."
388
00:29:04,765 --> 00:29:06,778
CLAIRE: "If thou kiss not me?"
389
00:29:07,961 --> 00:29:09,744
HARRIET: Miss Godwin?
390
00:29:10,163 --> 00:29:11,710
Yes?
391
00:29:13,083 --> 00:29:16,557
I am Mrs. Shelley. Harriet Shelley.
392
00:29:17,037 --> 00:29:20,469
And this is Ianthe, our daughter.
393
00:29:20,549 --> 00:29:22,631
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
394
00:29:26,472 --> 00:29:29,570
How can I help you, Mrs. Shelley?
395
00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:32,038
I am searching for my husband.
396
00:29:35,088 --> 00:29:36,951
He's not here.
397
00:29:37,297 --> 00:29:39,205
My father works alone today.
398
00:29:40,285 --> 00:29:42,758
I cannot help you any further.
399
00:29:42,838 --> 00:29:44,691
Miss Godwin!
400
00:29:47,267 --> 00:29:49,145
Stay away from Percy.
401
00:29:51,787 --> 00:29:56,547
I have not seen him in weeks
but I have heard rumors.
402
00:29:56,627 --> 00:30:00,901
Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
would be impervious to gossip?
403
00:30:00,981 --> 00:30:05,004
Evidently you are a stranger
to scandal, Miss Godwin.
404
00:30:07,220 --> 00:30:10,660
Did you know I ran away
with Percy when I was a girl?
405
00:30:12,017 --> 00:30:15,281
Idealism and love give us courage.
406
00:30:16,462 --> 00:30:20,712
But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice
required to love a man like Percy.
407
00:30:23,862 --> 00:30:26,681
Your husband is my father's student.
408
00:30:27,491 --> 00:30:29,580
Nothing more.
409
00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:33,589
If I see Mr. Shelley,
I will let him know you are looking for him.
410
00:30:34,329 --> 00:30:36,177
Goodbye, Mrs. Shelley.
411
00:30:43,507 --> 00:30:45,570
[BELL ON DOOR CHIMES]
412
00:30:49,813 --> 00:30:51,468
Claire?
413
00:30:54,017 --> 00:30:55,224
[MUSIC FADES]
414
00:31:05,986 --> 00:31:08,259
Your wife is very pretty, Mr. Shelley.
415
00:31:08,524 --> 00:31:10,770
Oh, I didn't know you were married.
416
00:31:12,327 --> 00:31:13,865
Yes.
417
00:31:16,014 --> 00:31:19,051
Yes, I've been married for five years now.
418
00:31:20,335 --> 00:31:22,163
MRS. GODWIN: Well, well.
419
00:31:23,253 --> 00:31:25,176
We look forward to meeting Mrs. Shelley.
420
00:31:26,216 --> 00:31:28,779
Perhaps she would like to join us
for dinner one evening?
421
00:31:28,859 --> 00:31:31,006
SHELLEY:
Your offer is most kind, Mrs. Godwin.
422
00:31:31,086 --> 00:31:35,504
However, Mrs. Shelley and I
are man and wife in name... only.
423
00:31:35,584 --> 00:31:39,970
I continue to provide for Harriet and my
daughter Ianthe financially but that is all.
424
00:31:40,771 --> 00:31:42,853
It is an intolerable tyranny...
425
00:31:43,233 --> 00:31:46,532
...to bind husband
and wife to cohabitation...
426
00:31:46,612 --> 00:31:49,335
...after the decay of their affection.
427
00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:53,044
Yeah.
428
00:31:53,719 --> 00:31:56,783
I remember saying something
like that when I was young.
429
00:32:04,555 --> 00:32:06,677
How could you do such a thing?
430
00:32:06,757 --> 00:32:09,404
- What did I do?
- You told her.
431
00:32:09,985 --> 00:32:11,788
I had to.
432
00:32:25,190 --> 00:32:28,378
How could you not speak
of Harriet and Ianthe?
433
00:32:28,459 --> 00:32:33,078
My marriage was a mistake. I believed
that I'd found in Harriet a kindred spirit.
434
00:32:33,158 --> 00:32:36,714
But time revealed only an empty, heartless
cynicism that consumed the both of us...
435
00:32:36,794 --> 00:32:39,399
...in a spiral of hate and anguish.
436
00:32:40,165 --> 00:32:42,145
But when I met you...
437
00:32:42,225 --> 00:32:45,726
...for the first time since
my marriage, I felt alive.
438
00:32:45,806 --> 00:32:49,695
And had you known I was married, propriety
would have gotten the better of you.
439
00:32:49,775 --> 00:32:51,850
Propriety has never been a concern of mine.
440
00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:56,401
I promise you it can be very easy to say that,
but it can be very different to live it.
441
00:32:56,482 --> 00:32:59,500
- Which is what I challenge you to do now.
- You challenge me to what?
442
00:32:59,580 --> 00:33:02,648
- To do what your heart is telling you to do...
- [SHUSHING]
443
00:33:03,428 --> 00:33:05,410
...and to come away with me.
444
00:33:05,491 --> 00:33:07,318
And let us both find...
445
00:33:08,869 --> 00:33:12,050
...new air to fill our lungs.
446
00:33:12,130 --> 00:33:14,185
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
447
00:33:15,075 --> 00:33:18,125
A new sun to warm our faces.
448
00:33:18,704 --> 00:33:23,771
See a new life that is actually
worth the living...
449
00:33:24,918 --> 00:33:26,481
...together.
450
00:33:37,848 --> 00:33:42,137
MARY: The air in this house was
stifling long before Shelley...
451
00:33:42,217 --> 00:33:46,055
...but the fact that he comes here
every day makes it even less bearable.
452
00:33:48,341 --> 00:33:50,597
Feels like I'm suffocating.
453
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,383
I just want to get away.
454
00:33:56,957 --> 00:33:59,205
CLAIRE: At least you went to Scotland.
455
00:33:59,728 --> 00:34:01,566
I've never been anywhere.
456
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,488
Next time we'll go somewhere together.
457
00:34:09,821 --> 00:34:11,900
We'll set off around the world...
458
00:34:12,481 --> 00:34:14,318
...just you and me.
459
00:34:15,552 --> 00:34:17,849
And we'll meet amazing people...
460
00:34:18,530 --> 00:34:20,735
...and go to wonderful places.
461
00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:23,522
And none of this...
462
00:34:23,602 --> 00:34:26,457
...or any of these people,
will matter at all.
463
00:34:28,331 --> 00:34:30,402
They won't mean a thing.
464
00:34:32,135 --> 00:34:34,006
I promise.
465
00:34:34,653 --> 00:34:37,266
I can't imagine anything more wonderful.
466
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:40,454
[CHATTER]
467
00:34:40,534 --> 00:34:42,770
[CLOCK TOWER BELL RINGING]
468
00:34:46,164 --> 00:34:48,104
Done so soon, Mr. Shelley?
469
00:34:48,184 --> 00:34:51,690
I thought you and Mr. Godwin would
be working through the afternoon.
470
00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:55,268
I'm afraid I don't feel up to much
of anything today, Mrs. Godwin.
471
00:35:06,570 --> 00:35:10,640
Mr. Shelley seems to be suffering
from some sort of emotional anguish.
472
00:35:12,776 --> 00:35:15,323
Perhaps he was disappointed to find that...
473
00:35:15,403 --> 00:35:20,052
...you do not cultivate the same public feats
of wantonness as your dear departed mother.
474
00:35:21,493 --> 00:35:24,653
I would ask that you not
speak ill of my mother.
475
00:35:24,733 --> 00:35:26,559
Oh, but of course.
476
00:35:27,023 --> 00:35:29,755
How dare anyone utter one word out of turn...
477
00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:32,649
...about a deceased person
of such eminent merit?
478
00:35:33,714 --> 00:35:36,995
At least you have not inherited
that strange deficit of hers.
479
00:35:37,075 --> 00:35:40,948
That foolish impulsiveness which mistook
wretchedness with emancipation.
480
00:35:42,222 --> 00:35:46,104
I have inherited nothing
but a fire in my soul...
481
00:35:46,184 --> 00:35:50,358
...and I will no longer allow you,
or anyone else, to contain it.
482
00:35:50,439 --> 00:35:53,492
Are you really involved
with that whoremonger?
483
00:35:53,572 --> 00:35:55,797
I hope those rumors prove to be false.
484
00:35:56,277 --> 00:35:58,825
Just when we have found
an avenue for our salvation...
485
00:35:58,905 --> 00:36:02,085
...you go and turn our fortunes
into yet another scandal.
486
00:36:02,165 --> 00:36:05,749
Do you believe I care at all
for my reputation?
487
00:36:05,829 --> 00:36:08,743
Or yours? I fear nothing...
488
00:36:08,823 --> 00:36:13,656
...but letting your meaningless words
scare me away from my desires.
489
00:36:17,257 --> 00:36:19,287
[PANTING]
490
00:36:19,367 --> 00:36:21,422
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
491
00:36:36,026 --> 00:36:38,782
SHELLEY:
The sunlight clasps the Earth
492
00:36:38,862 --> 00:36:41,935
And the moonbeams kiss the sea
493
00:36:42,616 --> 00:36:45,163
What are all these kissings worth
494
00:36:45,243 --> 00:36:48,115
If thou kiss not me?
495
00:37:01,468 --> 00:37:02,955
SHELLEY: Mary.
496
00:37:19,903 --> 00:37:22,220
What do you mean? But you're already married.
497
00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:26,254
We love each other.
We don't need to be married.
498
00:37:26,334 --> 00:37:28,474
MRS. GODWIN: I told you your warped
ideals would come back to haunt us.
499
00:37:28,554 --> 00:37:29,948
Mrs. Godwin, please.
500
00:37:30,028 --> 00:37:33,904
- We are only living by your beliefs.
- What do you know of living your beliefs?
501
00:37:33,984 --> 00:37:36,247
You had no problem with my mother
wanting to live out of wedlock.
502
00:37:36,327 --> 00:37:40,167
GODWIN:
Do you really think you can
withstand the consequences of this?
503
00:37:41,216 --> 00:37:44,621
Your mother was tortured by her impulses.
504
00:37:46,262 --> 00:37:49,264
The very passions she thought were
holding her together were working...
505
00:37:49,344 --> 00:37:52,656
...just as diligently to tear her apart.
506
00:37:53,386 --> 00:37:55,626
Don't let them get the better of you, Mary.
507
00:37:56,256 --> 00:37:58,977
And you, forget whatever fantasy
you've woven with my daughter.
508
00:37:59,057 --> 00:38:03,463
Are you really suggesting I could only be
with your daughter if we were married?
509
00:38:04,072 --> 00:38:08,725
How dare you? Come into my house,
you accept my hospitality...
510
00:38:08,805 --> 00:38:11,542
- ...and seduce my 16 year old daughter!
- Is it not you accepting my money?
511
00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,443
Go back to your wife!
512
00:38:13,957 --> 00:38:16,204
Never set foot in this house again.
513
00:38:16,585 --> 00:38:19,221
My love, I will return for you.
514
00:38:22,107 --> 00:38:25,547
If you ever see Mr. Shelley again...
515
00:38:26,027 --> 00:38:29,050
...prepare to lose
the love of a father, forever.
516
00:38:31,182 --> 00:38:33,245
[MUSIC FADES]
517
00:38:48,074 --> 00:38:49,360
CLAIRE: [WHISPERING] Mary!
518
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:53,808
Mary!
519
00:38:55,165 --> 00:38:59,615
Don't look back, Mary.
Remember, once you are gone...
520
00:39:00,420 --> 00:39:04,689
...none of this, or any
of these people, will matter at all.
521
00:39:06,435 --> 00:39:09,281
But please, Mary, take me with you.
522
00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:13,060
You promised next time we would go together.
523
00:39:26,738 --> 00:39:28,751
[DOG BARKING]
524
00:39:33,704 --> 00:39:35,571
[CARRIAGE APPROACHING]
525
00:39:35,651 --> 00:39:37,874
I hope I haven't kept you waiting long!
526
00:39:37,954 --> 00:39:39,816
[MYSTERIOUS, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
527
00:39:48,785 --> 00:39:52,000
- I guess you come as a pair.
- I couldn't leave her.
528
00:39:52,958 --> 00:39:55,186
- SHELLEY: Come!
- MARY: Where are we going?
529
00:39:55,266 --> 00:39:57,127
To St. Pancras.
530
00:39:59,896 --> 00:40:01,951
[LAUGHING]
531
00:40:05,902 --> 00:40:07,707
[JOYFUL SCREAMING]
532
00:40:12,267 --> 00:40:14,072
It's down here.
533
00:40:14,152 --> 00:40:16,691
- [LAUGHS]
- [MARY SQUEALS]
534
00:40:20,183 --> 00:40:21,295
Thank you.
535
00:40:22,794 --> 00:40:23,939
- Oh!
- [GENTLE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
536
00:40:26,381 --> 00:40:29,070
It is temporary, of course.
537
00:40:29,751 --> 00:40:31,556
CLAIRE: Well, where will I sleep?
538
00:40:32,988 --> 00:40:35,141
Try through there. [CHUCKLES]
539
00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:43,050
I am going to find us a house...
540
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,688
...and I intend it to be perfect.
541
00:40:47,736 --> 00:40:49,641
It already is perfect.
542
00:40:50,806 --> 00:40:52,702
I have you.
543
00:40:53,730 --> 00:40:56,238
Wherever we're together is where I belong.
544
00:41:08,023 --> 00:41:09,869
Are you sure, Mary?
545
00:41:11,009 --> 00:41:13,272
Only if you are ready, my love.
546
00:41:19,851 --> 00:41:21,889
[AIRY, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
547
00:41:41,367 --> 00:41:43,654
MARY:
I'm free to write what I please.
548
00:41:43,734 --> 00:41:46,923
Like a torrent of light
poured into a dark world.
549
00:41:47,003 --> 00:41:50,736
All around me I see bliss,
'cause I now know what it is to love...
550
00:41:50,816 --> 00:41:53,447
- SHELLEY:
Its very essence is liberty.
- MARY:
...and be loved.
551
00:41:53,527 --> 00:41:57,217
SHELLEY:
It is comparable neither
with obedience, jealousy nor fear.
552
00:41:57,297 --> 00:42:01,121
It is there, most pure,
perfect and unlimited.
553
00:42:02,002 --> 00:42:04,500
...close round the dying girl.
554
00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:06,777
[PRETENDING TO CHOKE]
555
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:10,522
Out and in they hurry and spin...
556
00:42:11,202 --> 00:42:14,701
...and dance, through the dance.
557
00:42:14,781 --> 00:42:18,439
They dance through the weary Whirl.
558
00:42:18,839 --> 00:42:22,473
Patience, patience,
though my heart is breaking.
559
00:42:22,553 --> 00:42:25,178
God, there is no question-making...
560
00:42:25,258 --> 00:42:29,215
...of thy body thou art quit and free.
561
00:42:29,295 --> 00:42:33,035
Heaven keep thy soul eternally!
562
00:42:38,772 --> 00:42:41,569
I trust you've enjoyed
the last of the claret?
563
00:42:45,679 --> 00:42:49,552
Would it be unwise to ask how it went today?
564
00:42:51,918 --> 00:42:53,990
My publishers are fools.
565
00:42:56,197 --> 00:42:58,253
Don't let them upset you.
566
00:42:58,834 --> 00:43:00,205
They're not worth it.
567
00:43:00,285 --> 00:43:02,807
But their advance is worth everything, Mary.
568
00:43:07,375 --> 00:43:09,776
My father has cut me off.
569
00:43:10,671 --> 00:43:15,153
He says I've disgraced his name
because of the scandal that surrounds us.
570
00:43:18,203 --> 00:43:19,627
So now you know.
571
00:43:28,119 --> 00:43:30,192
[CROWD CHATTERING]
572
00:43:39,616 --> 00:43:42,594
GODWIN: This one. Is that of any interest?
573
00:43:43,479 --> 00:43:44,841
No?
574
00:43:44,921 --> 00:43:47,819
Not interested in those.
What else do you have?
575
00:43:49,292 --> 00:43:51,882
Well, 'Iliad' by Homer in the original Greek.
576
00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:53,608
Father?
577
00:43:54,706 --> 00:43:56,511
It's been weeks.
578
00:44:01,362 --> 00:44:03,168
You're selling it?
579
00:44:03,248 --> 00:44:04,680
Yes.
580
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,369
There comes a time when we all have
to let go of the things we hold dear.
581
00:44:18,955 --> 00:44:22,554
It's your decision, Mary,
and you must live with it.
582
00:44:22,634 --> 00:44:25,640
He claims to love humanity
yet forsakes his child.
583
00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:31,804
I wish nothing more
than that you should thrive.
584
00:44:33,495 --> 00:44:36,158
But, look at you.
585
00:44:39,776 --> 00:44:42,865
VENDOR: So, do you want to sell it?
586
00:44:48,043 --> 00:44:49,589
No.
587
00:45:03,041 --> 00:45:06,347
- SHELLEY: Erasmus Darwin once wrote...
- CLAIRE: Who is Erasmus Darwin?
588
00:45:06,427 --> 00:45:09,393
SHELLEY: A poet and a physician. He once
wrote that a man who has never tried...
589
00:45:09,474 --> 00:45:12,086
...an experiment in his life is a fool.
590
00:45:14,169 --> 00:45:16,236
[FAINT CONVERSATION]
591
00:45:20,375 --> 00:45:24,124
- SHELLEY: ...on my sister's cat.
- CLAIRE: Oh, Shelley, you didn't! [GIGGLES]
592
00:45:24,204 --> 00:45:27,880
SHELLEY: No, I didn't. I have
the claw marks to prove it. [LAUGHTER]
593
00:45:29,551 --> 00:45:31,356
What's going on?
594
00:45:31,437 --> 00:45:35,556
I remembered a debt unpaid.
I know how much you love science, Mary.
595
00:45:35,636 --> 00:45:38,484
Watch this. Whoa!
596
00:45:38,564 --> 00:45:40,640
[LAUGHS]
597
00:45:42,631 --> 00:45:44,627
MARY: This is incredible.
598
00:45:45,909 --> 00:45:48,540
SHELLEY: And this is for you.
599
00:45:48,620 --> 00:45:49,807
MARY: Shelley.
600
00:45:53,166 --> 00:45:55,756
You shouldn't have spent money on dresses.
601
00:45:55,836 --> 00:45:58,311
Don't be silly, Mary, it's beautiful.
602
00:45:58,722 --> 00:46:00,185
That is not all.
603
00:46:00,265 --> 00:46:04,237
Tomorrow we move
to our new house in Bloomsbury.
604
00:46:05,709 --> 00:46:08,702
- The servants will meet us there.
- Servants!
605
00:46:08,782 --> 00:46:13,398
Because how can we write if we are forced
to tend to such domestic mundanities...
606
00:46:13,479 --> 00:46:15,955
...as the shopping and the cleaning.
607
00:46:16,565 --> 00:46:19,646
You make everything seem possible.
608
00:46:28,243 --> 00:46:32,854
- It's a step up from St. Pancras.
- Welcome home, Mary.
609
00:46:32,934 --> 00:46:34,503
[GIGGLES] Stop. [LAUGHS]
610
00:46:36,384 --> 00:46:38,214
CLAIRE: Wait for me!
611
00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:43,704
[DRAMATIC, ROMANTIC MUSIC]
612
00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:49,316
[SOFT MOANING]
613
00:47:01,893 --> 00:47:04,348
MARY:
A day devoted to love and idleness...
614
00:47:04,905 --> 00:47:07,123
...but despite my earthly paradise...
615
00:47:07,830 --> 00:47:10,380
...I feel a frustration born of guilt.
616
00:47:10,461 --> 00:47:14,484
A constant whisper that I am
no closer to achieving my dreams.
617
00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:19,972
Excuse me, are you the poet Shelley?
618
00:47:20,996 --> 00:47:23,540
Yes. Yes, I am.
619
00:47:23,620 --> 00:47:26,261
- Would you sign my pocketbook?
- Of course.
620
00:47:26,552 --> 00:47:28,394
Our friends will be terribly jealous.
621
00:47:29,921 --> 00:47:31,509
SHELLEY: There.
622
00:47:32,708 --> 00:47:34,596
Well, have a good day.
623
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,141
MARY: My love, I have news.
624
00:47:42,092 --> 00:47:43,769
Oh, my Mary.
625
00:47:43,849 --> 00:47:46,494
Hey, a baby.
626
00:47:47,898 --> 00:47:49,352
What news!
627
00:47:49,433 --> 00:47:51,904
- You're happy?
- Of course I'm happy.
628
00:47:52,578 --> 00:47:54,474
Why? Aren't you?
629
00:47:56,206 --> 00:47:58,072
I've never had a mother.
630
00:47:58,661 --> 00:48:02,532
- What if I fail?
- You think we can only learn by example?
631
00:48:03,580 --> 00:48:05,699
What of pure instinct?
632
00:48:05,779 --> 00:48:07,829
Of the inherent good that lies in all of us?
633
00:48:07,909 --> 00:48:10,961
And that, my darling, you have in abundance.
634
00:48:11,321 --> 00:48:14,445
- As will our little girl.
- You think it's a girl?
635
00:48:14,525 --> 00:48:17,379
She will be our very own prodigy.
636
00:48:17,953 --> 00:48:19,891
HARRIET: Ianthe, come here.
637
00:48:21,139 --> 00:48:22,894
Good girl.
638
00:48:24,275 --> 00:48:26,130
[QUIET, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
639
00:48:35,529 --> 00:48:37,333
Come, we have to go.
640
00:48:37,831 --> 00:48:39,376
Now.
641
00:48:50,401 --> 00:48:53,133
CLAIRE'S VOICE: [ECHOING]
Take me with you, please, take me.
642
00:48:53,213 --> 00:48:56,019
Please, Mary, take me with you.
643
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:58,377
Take me with you.
644
00:49:04,586 --> 00:49:06,632
[BABY CRYING]
645
00:49:15,994 --> 00:49:17,774
There is someone in my room.
646
00:49:17,854 --> 00:49:19,942
Someone? Did you see him?
647
00:49:21,099 --> 00:49:23,304
No. They...
648
00:49:27,230 --> 00:49:30,471
- No one, nothing.
- MARY: It's one of your nightmares, Claire.
649
00:49:30,941 --> 00:49:34,850
- I will sit with her.
- SHELLEY: No, no, I will take her to bed.
650
00:49:34,930 --> 00:49:37,471
You need to rest. Think of the baby.
651
00:49:37,551 --> 00:49:38,685
Claire, come on.
652
00:49:38,765 --> 00:49:40,853
[QUIET, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
653
00:50:15,095 --> 00:50:18,059
She sleeps. Finally.
654
00:50:18,139 --> 00:50:19,645
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
655
00:50:19,725 --> 00:50:21,588
And you should, too.
656
00:50:26,882 --> 00:50:28,778
I love you, Mary.
657
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:35,536
[DISHES CLATTERING]
658
00:50:35,616 --> 00:50:37,496
- Allow me to do it.
- [LAUGHTER]
659
00:50:38,076 --> 00:50:40,145
CLAIRE: Absolutely no clue.
660
00:50:40,526 --> 00:50:42,619
SHELLEY: I can't tell if you're
telling the truth or not.
661
00:50:42,699 --> 00:50:46,096
- CLAIRE: I am telling the truth.
- Who's paying for it? I'm paying for it?
662
00:50:46,176 --> 00:50:49,349
SHELLEY: You're gonna ruin me,
Claire Clairmont. You're gonna ruin me.
663
00:50:49,429 --> 00:50:52,989
- MARY: What's all this for?
- Oh, there you are. Guess what?
664
00:50:53,069 --> 00:50:56,147
Tonight we are having a dinner party.
665
00:50:59,673 --> 00:51:02,979
Come here. Don't we deserve a little fun?
666
00:51:03,059 --> 00:51:05,854
My dear, dear friend
Thomas Hogg is in town...
667
00:51:05,934 --> 00:51:10,504
...and has just published his first book.
So I thought we would throw him a party...
668
00:51:10,584 --> 00:51:13,657
Ma'am, how many guests
are we expecting this evening?
669
00:51:14,237 --> 00:51:16,159
Maybe 10.
670
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,040
10 or...
671
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,554
...12? 12. 12.
672
00:51:20,634 --> 00:51:22,924
Did the publisher's advance come in?
673
00:51:26,182 --> 00:51:28,354
I borrowed against my father's estate.
674
00:51:28,435 --> 00:51:31,911
Percy, there's no way
we can afford to pay it back.
675
00:51:31,991 --> 00:51:35,086
Come on. Come here. Come.
676
00:51:37,285 --> 00:51:39,461
[LAUGHING]
677
00:51:39,541 --> 00:51:41,609
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
678
00:51:49,998 --> 00:51:53,212
I'm sorry it's not much
of a celebration, Mr. Hogg.
679
00:51:54,978 --> 00:51:57,901
It appears we're even more
scandalous than we realized.
680
00:51:57,981 --> 00:51:59,498
HOGG: Don't trouble yourself, Mary.
681
00:51:59,578 --> 00:52:02,514
Shelley and I have a long history
of courting trouble.
682
00:52:02,594 --> 00:52:06,960
We began writing a novel together back at
Oxford but publishers deemed it too subversive.
683
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,071
We had more success with our treatise
which we wrote anonymously...
684
00:52:10,151 --> 00:52:13,685
- '...The Necessity of Atheism'.
- Because it was published?
685
00:52:13,765 --> 00:52:16,158
Because it resulted
in our expulsion from Oxford.
686
00:52:16,238 --> 00:52:17,854
[LAUGHTER]
687
00:52:17,934 --> 00:52:20,716
I'm beginning to suspect you have
a penchant for being anonymous.
688
00:52:20,796 --> 00:52:25,079
What's the point of being published if you
don't have your name on it? Why bother?
689
00:52:25,159 --> 00:52:27,396
I assume you also write?
690
00:52:28,411 --> 00:52:30,481
It's not anything like my parents.
691
00:52:30,561 --> 00:52:34,211
Soon Mary will produce a work
that will surpass all of us.
692
00:52:35,852 --> 00:52:40,093
How about you, Miss Clairmont? Do you write
or are there other tricks you perform?
693
00:52:40,173 --> 00:52:42,643
I have my own talents.
694
00:52:42,723 --> 00:52:47,550
- Claire is an accomplished singer.
- So she says. I'm yet to hear it.
695
00:52:48,740 --> 00:52:50,628
HOGG: Will you sing for us?
696
00:52:51,435 --> 00:52:53,790
I will sing, and...
697
00:52:53,870 --> 00:52:56,660
...if you happen to overhear...
698
00:52:56,740 --> 00:52:59,220
...I suppose, it can't be helped.
699
00:53:00,201 --> 00:53:03,274
She has spirit this one,
I can see why you keep her.
700
00:53:04,506 --> 00:53:09,084
# A sweet scented courtier
did give me a kiss #
701
00:53:09,164 --> 00:53:13,635
# And promised me rightly
that I would be his #
702
00:53:13,715 --> 00:53:17,120
# But I'll not believe him
for it is too true #
703
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:21,267
# Courtiers promise much more than they do #
704
00:53:21,347 --> 00:53:26,206
# My thing is my own
that I'll keep it so still #
705
00:53:26,286 --> 00:53:30,317
# Other young lassies can do what they will #
706
00:53:32,751 --> 00:53:34,434
[DOOR KNOCKS]
707
00:53:35,195 --> 00:53:38,694
Ma'am, Mr. Hogg... is here to see you.
708
00:53:38,774 --> 00:53:40,529
Mr. Hogg?
709
00:53:40,609 --> 00:53:42,680
Thank you, Eliza.
710
00:53:44,365 --> 00:53:46,634
Shelley will be sorry to have missed you.
711
00:53:47,070 --> 00:53:50,353
- Would you care to wait?
- I should like that very much, Mary.
712
00:53:50,434 --> 00:53:53,182
- Are you hungry?
- I'm fine, thank you.
713
00:53:54,164 --> 00:53:55,827
You're writing?
714
00:53:55,916 --> 00:53:59,798
Ledgers. But it might as well be Latin.
715
00:53:59,878 --> 00:54:04,144
- Are you schooled in Latin?
- Yes, my father insisted upon it.
716
00:54:04,224 --> 00:54:05,879
Why don't you sit down?
717
00:54:05,959 --> 00:54:09,123
I fear my Latin is not
what it was when I was at Oxford.
718
00:54:10,872 --> 00:54:13,861
May I... practice upon you, Mary?
719
00:54:14,585 --> 00:54:17,056
I'm not sure I'd be of much use to you.
720
00:54:18,229 --> 00:54:21,044
My mind is all over the place these days.
721
00:54:21,124 --> 00:54:23,179
[QUIET, OMINOUS MUSIC]
722
00:54:23,359 --> 00:54:26,566
Perhaps you should practice upon me.
723
00:54:32,644 --> 00:54:35,834
CLAIRE: I cannot believe you fired
the servant for that, Shelley.
724
00:54:35,914 --> 00:54:37,998
- Who do you think you are?
- [LAUGHTER]
725
00:54:40,911 --> 00:54:42,957
[LAUGHTER]
726
00:54:45,941 --> 00:54:47,487
Mary?
727
00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:51,198
What's wrong? Is it the baby?
728
00:54:51,847 --> 00:54:54,967
Claire, could you please leave us?
729
00:55:04,092 --> 00:55:06,138
Hogg came to the house.
730
00:55:07,996 --> 00:55:09,809
And then...
731
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,300
...he made an advance...
732
00:55:13,380 --> 00:55:15,484
- ...but I didn't, I...
- So you did not comply?
733
00:55:16,438 --> 00:55:19,742
Of course not. I would never...
734
00:55:20,892 --> 00:55:23,724
Mary. Hey.
735
00:55:24,304 --> 00:55:27,707
I have no quarrel with you
and Thomas becoming lovers.
736
00:55:29,175 --> 00:55:31,247
Isn't this what we believe in?
737
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,125
Unconventional approaches to living?
738
00:55:34,931 --> 00:55:38,046
After all, why should we not have such
an arrangement? I do not own you.
739
00:55:38,126 --> 00:55:40,402
You are free to be with whomever you please.
740
00:55:41,797 --> 00:55:44,351
Oh, but I don't want to be with anyone else.
741
00:55:45,959 --> 00:55:48,807
Don't you believe that love is free?
742
00:55:49,037 --> 00:55:50,663
Yes.
743
00:55:50,743 --> 00:55:53,687
- Free to be with one person...
- That is poor logic, Mary.
744
00:55:55,586 --> 00:55:57,713
Your choice means nothing to me.
745
00:55:57,793 --> 00:56:01,202
What disappoints me is that you
wouldn't even consider it.
746
00:56:03,351 --> 00:56:05,532
Leads me to question how much
you value your beliefs...
747
00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:08,644
...when you will not even make
an attempt to live them.
748
00:56:10,325 --> 00:56:13,705
I believe, with all my heart...
749
00:56:13,785 --> 00:56:16,552
...there are all sorts of ways of living.
750
00:56:16,632 --> 00:56:20,455
And I will fight for
anyone's right to live accordingly.
751
00:56:21,978 --> 00:56:26,085
But my truth is that there
is no one else for me.
752
00:56:33,515 --> 00:56:36,112
Do you wish to be with someone else?
753
00:56:37,268 --> 00:56:41,878
I merely suggest that you do not offer me
the same freedoms I offer you.
754
00:56:44,676 --> 00:56:46,528
You're a hypocrite.
755
00:56:46,916 --> 00:56:48,781
Like your father.
756
00:56:50,616 --> 00:56:52,504
And you...
757
00:56:52,584 --> 00:56:56,188
...are nothing close to the man
that I thought you were.
758
00:57:07,783 --> 00:57:10,316
MARY:
Wanting for my 'happily ever after'...
759
00:57:10,396 --> 00:57:12,566
...I lowered my defenses...
760
00:57:12,646 --> 00:57:14,884
...forgetting the first lesson
I was taught...
761
00:57:15,415 --> 00:57:18,271
...that I was brought into
this world to be abandoned.
762
00:57:18,351 --> 00:57:20,582
That I am irrevocably alone.
763
00:57:23,565 --> 00:57:25,620
[PENCIL WRITING]
764
00:57:32,958 --> 00:57:35,010
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
765
00:57:39,330 --> 00:57:40,860
SHELLEY: Mary.
766
00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:50,928
Are you not cold, Mary?
767
00:57:52,594 --> 00:57:55,044
My hypocrisy keeps me warm.
768
00:57:55,305 --> 00:57:57,802
As does my cloak of disappointment.
769
00:57:59,300 --> 00:58:02,123
I'm going to tell Hogg
not to call here again.
770
00:58:02,203 --> 00:58:04,492
I already told him with my fist.
771
00:58:06,274 --> 00:58:08,696
You have to understand, Mary, that...
772
00:58:10,821 --> 00:58:12,825
...I have always lived this way...
773
00:58:13,753 --> 00:58:15,709
...to a fault.
774
00:58:18,403 --> 00:58:22,919
And I thought this was something
we both believed in.
775
00:58:26,294 --> 00:58:28,374
An ideal we shared.
776
00:58:29,990 --> 00:58:34,242
But had I truly considered it, and I let
myself fully understand what I was doing...
777
00:58:34,322 --> 00:58:36,804
...I would never let anything...
778
00:58:38,999 --> 00:58:41,030
...anything come between us.
779
00:58:46,607 --> 00:58:48,410
I have a surprise for you.
780
00:58:50,677 --> 00:58:52,351
We're going out.
781
00:58:54,698 --> 00:58:56,703
[DOOR KNOCKS]
782
00:58:58,001 --> 00:58:59,897
Well, what are you waiting for?
783
00:59:03,329 --> 00:59:05,369
[CHATTER]
784
00:59:07,293 --> 00:59:09,234
Phantasmagoria.
785
00:59:09,314 --> 00:59:12,318
Starring Claire Clairmont, yours truly.
786
00:59:14,660 --> 00:59:16,523
It's Lord Byron.
787
00:59:18,363 --> 00:59:20,242
Let us go and talk to him.
788
00:59:22,425 --> 00:59:24,447
Lord Byron!
789
00:59:26,897 --> 00:59:32,255
My Lord... may I introduce to you
the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley...
790
00:59:32,335 --> 00:59:34,730
...and a great admirer of your work.
791
00:59:35,230 --> 00:59:37,101
I know Mr. Shelley.
792
00:59:37,185 --> 00:59:39,045
I enjoyed "Queen Mab".
793
00:59:39,666 --> 00:59:42,524
- Credit to you.
- Thank you.
794
00:59:49,470 --> 00:59:53,960
And now our final act,
Mr. Brycison the Galvanizer.
795
00:59:55,228 --> 00:59:59,432
Who amongst you has ever wondered
if the dead could return to life?
796
01:00:00,221 --> 01:00:02,488
Thanks to scientific discovery...
797
01:00:02,568 --> 01:00:06,856
...mankind is on the cusp
of conquering mortality.
798
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:14,706
Using this frog and an electrical current...
799
01:00:19,850 --> 01:00:22,954
...I will demonstrate how muscular
stimulation is possible...
800
01:00:23,034 --> 01:00:25,313
...via electrical means.
801
01:00:26,558 --> 01:00:30,334
Ladies and gentlemen,
may I introduce you to the process of...
802
01:00:31,185 --> 01:00:32,688
...galvanism.
803
01:00:32,771 --> 01:00:35,334
- [CROWD GASPS]
- [AIRY, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
804
01:01:35,734 --> 01:01:39,994
Is that really possible?
That the dead could come back to life?
805
01:01:40,243 --> 01:01:42,318
There is every possibility.
806
01:01:43,074 --> 01:01:45,321
That has brought you back to life.
807
01:01:52,312 --> 01:01:55,543
Oh, Clara, you are so beautiful...
808
01:01:56,144 --> 01:02:00,197
...and tiny. Did you ever see
such tiny hands?
809
01:02:01,376 --> 01:02:03,018
She's so beautiful.
810
01:02:03,098 --> 01:02:05,575
SHELLEY: Almost as beautiful as you, my love.
811
01:02:06,865 --> 01:02:08,945
Mary, can I get you anything?
812
01:02:09,551 --> 01:02:11,422
I have all I need.
813
01:02:13,074 --> 01:02:15,359
And what a trio we will be.
814
01:02:17,142 --> 01:02:19,046
Yes, she agrees.
815
01:02:20,070 --> 01:02:23,159
SHELLEY: You agree? We're gonna be a trio.
816
01:02:23,532 --> 01:02:27,390
You're gonna be our special
little prodigy. Yeah.
817
01:02:27,471 --> 01:02:29,568
[LIGHT, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
818
01:02:51,518 --> 01:02:53,882
[MARY SINGING QUIETLY]
819
01:02:53,962 --> 01:02:57,285
MARY:
I can scarcely believe that
one small being can be responsible...
820
01:02:57,365 --> 01:02:59,178
...for such joy.
821
01:02:59,701 --> 01:03:03,892
Is all that is truly required
is that we live well, be happy...
822
01:03:03,972 --> 01:03:05,818
...and make others so?
823
01:03:07,367 --> 01:03:10,973
# Over the hills and far... #
824
01:03:14,349 --> 01:03:16,237
She's sleeping.
825
01:03:17,836 --> 01:03:19,750
[COOING]
826
01:03:19,830 --> 01:03:21,909
[RAINFALL]
827
01:03:38,874 --> 01:03:40,720
We must leave at once.
828
01:03:40,942 --> 01:03:42,389
What do you mean?
829
01:03:43,712 --> 01:03:45,467
What has happened?
830
01:03:46,432 --> 01:03:48,629
Creditors are coming.
831
01:03:48,709 --> 01:03:52,123
- Percy. Clara's not well.
- Mary, we do not have time to discuss this.
832
01:03:52,203 --> 01:03:54,585
- It's raining outside. We can't take her.
- [DOOR BANGING]
833
01:03:54,665 --> 01:03:56,887
- The doctor said she must keep warm.
- [CLARA CRYING]
834
01:03:56,967 --> 01:03:59,515
We have no choice. Claire, are you ready?
835
01:03:59,895 --> 01:04:01,433
MARY: Percy.
836
01:04:01,813 --> 01:04:04,035
SHELLEY: Eliza, do not tell them anything.
837
01:04:04,616 --> 01:04:06,129
- Claire.
- [CLARA CRYING]
838
01:04:06,209 --> 01:04:07,598
[POUNDING ON THE DOOR]
839
01:04:07,678 --> 01:04:10,141
Mary. Come.
840
01:04:11,990 --> 01:04:13,611
Please.
841
01:04:19,164 --> 01:04:21,202
We must get back to St. Pancras.
842
01:04:22,142 --> 01:04:23,980
They won't find us there.
843
01:04:26,822 --> 01:04:27,967
Mary!
844
01:04:28,072 --> 01:04:29,861
[CLARA COUGHING]
845
01:04:29,941 --> 01:04:31,778
Mary, please.
846
01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:42,782
[CLARA CRYING, COUGHING]
847
01:04:50,879 --> 01:04:52,959
She needs shelter now!
848
01:05:15,604 --> 01:05:17,108
SHELLEY: [WHISPERING] Mary...
849
01:05:18,624 --> 01:05:21,721
...it breaks my heart to see you like this.
850
01:05:22,636 --> 01:05:24,531
The doctor told you...
851
01:05:25,005 --> 01:05:27,618
...Clara was never for this world.
852
01:05:30,151 --> 01:05:32,031
What about your books?
853
01:05:32,963 --> 01:05:36,180
I mean, surely there is something
you would like to read?
854
01:05:37,133 --> 01:05:38,905
The books?
855
01:05:39,853 --> 01:05:43,109
The books survived
the creditors, didn't they?
856
01:05:45,141 --> 01:05:47,656
I miss her, too, Mary.
857
01:05:47,736 --> 01:05:49,248
Desperately.
858
01:05:50,188 --> 01:05:53,832
Desperately.
But I don't want to lose you as well.
859
01:06:01,166 --> 01:06:03,195
Leave me alone.
860
01:06:10,801 --> 01:06:12,889
[FIRE CRACKLING]
861
01:06:30,504 --> 01:06:32,383
[CHURCH BELLS]
862
01:06:34,015 --> 01:06:36,062
[MELANCHOLY DRAMATIC MUSIC]
863
01:06:44,568 --> 01:06:47,724
SHELLEY:
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead
864
01:06:48,505 --> 01:06:51,753
Are heaped for the beloved's bed
865
01:06:52,543 --> 01:06:54,687
And so thy thoughts
866
01:06:55,257 --> 01:06:57,501
When thou art gone
867
01:06:57,581 --> 01:07:01,638
Love itself shall slumber on
868
01:07:07,608 --> 01:07:12,803
MARY:
# Tommy was a piper's son #
869
01:07:12,883 --> 01:07:18,271
# He learned to play when he was young #
870
01:07:18,351 --> 01:07:20,867
# The only tune #
871
01:07:20,947 --> 01:07:24,351
# That he could play #
872
01:07:25,366 --> 01:07:27,448
[BABY WAILS]
873
01:07:28,128 --> 01:07:30,173
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS]
874
01:08:31,189 --> 01:08:33,877
MARY:
You'll come to me in dreams, my love.
875
01:08:34,401 --> 01:08:36,615
I will not ask a dearer bliss.
876
01:08:43,076 --> 01:08:45,287
I dreamed of her last night.
877
01:08:46,397 --> 01:08:48,920
That we lit a fire in the fireplace...
878
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,427
...and the fire's warmth
nursed her back to life.
879
01:08:52,508 --> 01:08:54,161
[DOOR CREAKS]
880
01:08:54,781 --> 01:08:58,713
CLAIRE: My love, I haven't
seen you smile at me in weeks.
881
01:08:59,911 --> 01:09:01,766
MAN: Oh, Claire.
882
01:09:21,699 --> 01:09:26,276
- He invited you to Geneva?
- No, Mary. Lord Byron has invited us.
883
01:09:27,420 --> 01:09:30,878
- Us?
- You, me and Shelley. All of us.
884
01:09:31,609 --> 01:09:35,001
Do you think you are the only one
who can attract a poet?
885
01:09:36,397 --> 01:09:38,369
No, Claire.
886
01:09:38,450 --> 01:09:41,847
In fact I am very aware of your abilities.
887
01:09:45,464 --> 01:09:48,231
But... we have to go.
888
01:09:49,827 --> 01:09:51,656
I am pregnant.
889
01:09:55,674 --> 01:09:57,487
Who's the father?
890
01:09:59,712 --> 01:10:03,668
Mary. Mary, it is Byron's, of course.
891
01:10:06,612 --> 01:10:09,960
I've been meeting him in secret
for quite some time now.
892
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:13,115
Don't you see? Geneva will give me
the chance to talk to him...
893
01:10:13,195 --> 01:10:15,031
...away from the crowds of London.
894
01:10:15,111 --> 01:10:19,126
I mean, you, of all people, should know
that this city loves a scandal.
895
01:10:19,206 --> 01:10:20,512
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
896
01:10:20,592 --> 01:10:24,090
Shelley, we've been invited
to Geneva by Lord Byron.
897
01:10:25,405 --> 01:10:28,601
Lord Byron? Oh, my word!
898
01:10:28,941 --> 01:10:30,997
This is an unmissable opportunity.
899
01:10:31,077 --> 01:10:34,259
This could help us immensely. Um...
900
01:10:34,339 --> 01:10:37,194
- CLAIRE: Well, he said...
- I'm not ready for this.
901
01:10:40,537 --> 01:10:41,799
Mary.
902
01:10:41,879 --> 01:10:46,102
Percy, I don't think
I'm ready for this. Please.
903
01:10:46,993 --> 01:10:50,007
- Not yet.
- Oh, Mary, I miss her too.
904
01:10:52,096 --> 01:10:54,345
Oh, I wish I could have saved her.
905
01:10:57,153 --> 01:10:59,634
I'm not asking you to let go of her, Mary.
906
01:11:00,623 --> 01:11:03,437
I'm just asking you
to raise above your grief.
907
01:11:04,176 --> 01:11:08,023
To raise her spirit
to the great heights she deserves.
908
01:11:18,525 --> 01:11:20,622
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]
909
01:11:32,539 --> 01:11:34,577
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
910
01:11:56,704 --> 01:11:58,500
Thank you.
911
01:12:01,358 --> 01:12:03,881
I was surprised to hear
you were staying here?
912
01:12:03,961 --> 01:12:05,797
Most tourists come to gawk at the place.
913
01:12:05,877 --> 01:12:08,985
We've become accustomed to prying
eyes ourselves. I'm sure we'll manage.
914
01:12:09,065 --> 01:12:10,583
Mr. Shelley!
915
01:12:26,326 --> 01:12:30,280
It is a pleasure to make
your acquaintance once more.
916
01:12:32,533 --> 01:12:36,006
I received Miss Clairmont's letter yesterday
alerting me of this impending arrival.
917
01:12:37,187 --> 01:12:39,580
My Lord, it is an honor.
918
01:12:39,660 --> 01:12:43,009
And may I introduce Miss
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin?
919
01:12:46,738 --> 01:12:48,616
Miss Godwin.
920
01:12:49,675 --> 01:12:53,890
Forgive me but there is a smile
hidden inside of you, I can see it.
921
01:12:54,354 --> 01:12:58,369
And it is beautiful and brutal.
922
01:12:59,250 --> 01:13:02,883
And I hope that before long
I can coax it outside of you.
923
01:13:04,364 --> 01:13:06,207
And there she is.
924
01:13:08,418 --> 01:13:11,357
- My Lord.
- Claire.
925
01:13:13,602 --> 01:13:15,626
[GIGGLES]
926
01:13:18,228 --> 01:13:21,759
Claire, I must remember next time
that to mention travel plans to you...
927
01:13:21,839 --> 01:13:23,870
...is tantamount to an invitation.
928
01:13:24,651 --> 01:13:28,248
My Lord, I apologize.
I fear there's been some confusion.
929
01:13:28,328 --> 01:13:31,261
If our visit is an imposition,
we will seek lodging elsewhere.
930
01:13:31,341 --> 01:13:33,664
Please, don't concern yourselves.
You must stay here as my guest.
931
01:13:33,744 --> 01:13:36,098
Things have been getting boring round here
and I will be grateful for the distraction.
932
01:13:36,178 --> 01:13:40,462
In fact there is the Duke
of Dulldom himself, Doctor Polidori.
933
01:13:41,242 --> 01:13:43,112
Come with me.
934
01:13:48,884 --> 01:13:52,237
Doctor Polidori, Miss Godwin.
She doesn't smile.
935
01:13:53,063 --> 01:13:54,874
Charmed, Miss Godwin.
936
01:13:56,563 --> 01:13:58,586
[LAUGHTER]
937
01:14:04,106 --> 01:14:06,178
Don't embarrass the servants.
938
01:14:06,258 --> 01:14:09,641
Are you a Doctor of Science, Doctor Polidori?
939
01:14:09,721 --> 01:14:13,119
- I'm sorry, but I'm a physician.*
- Science fascinates Mary.
940
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:17,314
Why is being a physician disappointing? You
save lives. You bring babies into the world.
941
01:14:17,394 --> 01:14:19,881
You help poets with their sleeping disorders.
942
01:14:19,961 --> 01:14:22,144
Doctor Polidori wrote
his thesis on the subject.
943
01:14:22,224 --> 01:14:25,580
And, conveniently, I've become quite
the somnambulist in his presence.
944
01:14:26,729 --> 01:14:29,652
Well, I hope we can liven
things up for you a little, My Lord.
945
01:14:29,732 --> 01:14:31,831
I'm sure you will try, Miss Clairmont.
946
01:14:34,154 --> 01:14:36,333
Would you like to join me
in the parlor, Mr. Shelley?
947
01:14:36,413 --> 01:14:38,242
Of course.
948
01:14:42,337 --> 01:14:46,811
Perhaps you'll be more comfortable conversing
with Claire and Doctor Polidori, my love.
949
01:14:52,923 --> 01:14:54,333
Byron...
950
01:15:08,464 --> 01:15:11,293
I must say, the decor is interesting.
951
01:15:11,774 --> 01:15:16,112
Byron likes to record his 'grand ideas'
on slips of paper...
952
01:15:16,192 --> 01:15:19,669
...and tack them up on the wall.
You should see the one in the parlor.
953
01:15:19,749 --> 01:15:24,149
Gets littered with paper when we have
company, or when he's stimulated.
954
01:15:24,229 --> 01:15:26,306
[GIGGLES]
955
01:15:29,025 --> 01:15:31,103
[AIRY, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
956
01:15:38,489 --> 01:15:41,999
BYRON: This is poetry, my brother.
957
01:15:42,079 --> 01:15:46,504
'On Death' by the incomparable yours truly.
958
01:15:46,584 --> 01:15:49,263
Third stanza! Summon the muse.
959
01:15:51,381 --> 01:15:53,308
[IMITATING MONKEY]
960
01:15:54,109 --> 01:15:58,015
The world is the nurse of all we know
961
01:15:58,095 --> 01:16:01,343
This world the mother of all we feel
962
01:16:01,423 --> 01:16:04,790
And the coming of death is a fearful blow
963
01:16:04,870 --> 01:16:08,494
To the brain unencompassed
with nerves of steel
964
01:16:08,574 --> 01:16:12,530
When all we know or feel or see
965
01:16:12,610 --> 01:16:15,890
Shall pass like an unreal mystery!
966
01:16:17,999 --> 01:16:20,088
POLIDORI: I found this article...
967
01:16:20,168 --> 01:16:22,171
...and recalled your interest in science.
968
01:16:29,010 --> 01:16:30,976
Is this possible?
969
01:16:31,056 --> 01:16:32,846
Reanimation?
970
01:16:34,215 --> 01:16:35,869
POLIDORI: That is the claim.
971
01:16:35,949 --> 01:16:39,353
Applying the principle of galvanism
to human corpses.
972
01:16:40,672 --> 01:16:43,250
Every lady in the land knows this.
973
01:16:44,442 --> 01:16:47,164
She walks in beauty like the night
974
01:16:47,244 --> 01:16:50,263
Of cloudless climes and starry skies
975
01:16:50,343 --> 01:16:53,387
And all that's bright of dark and light
976
01:16:53,468 --> 01:16:54,790
- What?
- Bright! Bright, bright...
977
01:16:54,870 --> 01:16:57,734
All that's best of dark and bright
meet in the aspect of her eyes
978
01:16:57,814 --> 01:17:01,829
That's mellow to thy tender light
which heaven to gaudy day deny
979
01:17:01,909 --> 01:17:04,303
POLIDORI:
I was sorry to hear about your baby.
980
01:17:08,709 --> 01:17:10,545
Her name was Clara.
981
01:17:11,603 --> 01:17:13,456
I don't mean to upset you.
982
01:17:14,305 --> 01:17:16,044
No.
983
01:17:16,124 --> 01:17:18,146
No, you haven't at all.
984
01:17:20,027 --> 01:17:22,321
I thank you for speaking of her.
985
01:17:26,677 --> 01:17:29,765
It's an unspeakable cruelty
for a woman to lose a child.
986
01:17:30,105 --> 01:17:32,792
I've seen it more times
than I care to remember.
987
01:17:35,051 --> 01:17:37,064
I'm in awe of you, Miss Godwin...
988
01:17:37,545 --> 01:17:39,571
...and your strength to survive it.
989
01:17:42,163 --> 01:17:43,656
Drink!
990
01:17:44,310 --> 01:17:46,672
Drink. Drink.
991
01:17:54,354 --> 01:17:57,216
SHELLEY:
Why? Why not? Why would I not be sure?
992
01:18:10,896 --> 01:18:14,124
It's called 'The Nightmare...
993
01:18:14,204 --> 01:18:16,378
...The Curse Of The Incubus'.
994
01:18:16,459 --> 01:18:21,611
The Angel fallen from grace
because of insatiable lust.
995
01:18:23,925 --> 01:18:26,003
You know the painter, don't you?
996
01:18:27,369 --> 01:18:29,248
Henry Fuseli.
997
01:18:31,041 --> 01:18:33,334
He was my mother's first love.
998
01:18:33,944 --> 01:18:37,108
She tried to kill herself
with an overdose of laudanum...
999
01:18:37,188 --> 01:18:38,908
...when he left her for another woman.
1000
01:18:41,788 --> 01:18:45,476
I've never reconciled how someone
as strong as my mother...
1001
01:18:45,556 --> 01:18:48,049
...was so vulnerable when it came to love.
1002
01:18:49,250 --> 01:18:52,679
Love will find its way through paths...
1003
01:18:52,759 --> 01:18:55,902
...where wolves would fear to prey.
1004
01:18:55,982 --> 01:18:59,356
MARY: But if she wasn't impervious
to the pain of heartbreak...
1005
01:19:00,136 --> 01:19:02,623
...what hope is there for the rest of us?
1006
01:19:05,257 --> 01:19:09,665
The great art of life is sensation.
1007
01:19:10,538 --> 01:19:13,999
To feel that you exist, even in pain.
1008
01:19:14,079 --> 01:19:16,146
I mean, would you not die for love?
1009
01:19:16,343 --> 01:19:21,229
After all, what is life
if it does not have love?
1010
01:19:22,609 --> 01:19:25,195
Nothing, according to you poets.
1011
01:19:27,429 --> 01:19:29,308
You are...
1012
01:19:32,168 --> 01:19:34,240
I've always believed that a woman...
1013
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:37,835
...should be intelligent enough to
understand what I'm saying but...
1014
01:19:37,915 --> 01:19:43,066
...not intelligent enough to be able
to form ideas or opinions of her own.
1015
01:19:43,596 --> 01:19:46,863
You, Miss Godwin,
have the chance to prove me wrong.
1016
01:19:46,943 --> 01:19:49,313
[PIANO CRASH]
1017
01:19:51,146 --> 01:19:52,989
Play us a tune, Shelley.
1018
01:20:00,135 --> 01:20:02,198
[REVELRY]
1019
01:20:04,290 --> 01:20:06,328
[THUNDER]
1020
01:20:14,185 --> 01:20:18,864
Oh, this infernal copying. I'm bored of it.
1021
01:20:19,666 --> 01:20:23,471
I can't transcribe another
word of these poems.
1022
01:20:30,092 --> 01:20:32,808
It's been raining like this for weeks.
1023
01:20:32,888 --> 01:20:36,987
We're all going to go insane. Can't
anyone think of ways to pass the time?
1024
01:20:37,067 --> 01:20:39,615
- Mary, please.
- No.
1025
01:20:39,695 --> 01:20:41,337
She's right.
1026
01:20:46,133 --> 01:20:47,670
- Listen.
- [WIND HOWLING]
1027
01:20:51,698 --> 01:20:54,577
There are witches in the wind.
1028
01:20:56,997 --> 01:20:58,823
I have an idea.
1029
01:21:02,233 --> 01:21:05,946
We are, each one of us...
1030
01:21:06,447 --> 01:21:08,530
...to write a story.
1031
01:21:10,282 --> 01:21:12,176
A ghost story.
1032
01:21:14,270 --> 01:21:17,077
It's a competition, of course.
1033
01:21:17,157 --> 01:21:19,659
Whoever writes the finest story...
1034
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,662
...shall win.
1035
01:21:26,398 --> 01:21:28,412
LORD BYRON: [VOICEOVER] Miss Clairmont...
1036
01:21:29,785 --> 01:21:31,296
...you...
1037
01:21:31,759 --> 01:21:33,577
...your job...
1038
01:21:33,657 --> 01:21:35,373
...is to transcribe them.
1039
01:21:37,202 --> 01:21:39,020
How dare you?
1040
01:21:39,796 --> 01:21:42,667
What right do you have to treat me like this?
1041
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:44,850
Your lover.
1042
01:21:46,168 --> 01:21:47,737
Claire...
1043
01:21:50,115 --> 01:21:52,181
...you are not my lover.
1044
01:21:53,885 --> 01:21:55,880
You are a dalliance.
1045
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:58,748
A lapse in judgment.
1046
01:21:59,507 --> 01:22:03,563
A silly little girl.
1047
01:22:13,038 --> 01:22:15,485
I'm sorry, have I caused a scene?
1048
01:22:19,602 --> 01:22:21,691
[AIRY, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1049
01:22:24,750 --> 01:22:28,107
Sir, I have an urgent message
arrived from London.
1050
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:35,390
Claire!
1051
01:22:50,942 --> 01:22:52,787
Is everything alright, sir?
1052
01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:04,949
Claire.
1053
01:23:06,007 --> 01:23:08,694
Why... why must they be so vile?
1054
01:23:16,092 --> 01:23:18,771
Don't let such cruelty wound you.
1055
01:23:19,721 --> 01:23:22,336
You're stronger than you realize...
1056
01:23:22,416 --> 01:23:24,826
...and you don't need anything from them.
1057
01:23:26,018 --> 01:23:28,653
You don't need anything from them.
1058
01:23:37,263 --> 01:23:39,258
Thank you, Mary.
1059
01:24:10,271 --> 01:24:13,029
- BYRON: No!
- I need to speak to you.
1060
01:24:13,109 --> 01:24:14,619
BYRON: No!
1061
01:24:39,241 --> 01:24:41,287
[THUNDER]
1062
01:25:31,127 --> 01:25:33,654
MARY:
I no longer see the world...
1063
01:25:33,734 --> 01:25:37,167
...and its works as they before
appeared to me.
1064
01:25:38,093 --> 01:25:40,329
But now misery has come home...
1065
01:25:40,728 --> 01:25:44,016
...and men appear to me as monsters...
1066
01:25:44,196 --> 01:25:46,600
...thirsting for each other's blood.
1067
01:25:48,410 --> 01:25:51,634
And I, a miserable spectacle
of wrecked humanity...
1068
01:25:51,714 --> 01:25:55,126
...pitiable to others
and intolerable to myself.
1069
01:25:58,489 --> 01:26:00,292
Has Claire risen?
1070
01:26:00,372 --> 01:26:03,868
She sent down word.
She is feeling unwell this morning.
1071
01:26:04,727 --> 01:26:06,543
Where is Shelley?
1072
01:26:08,105 --> 01:26:10,336
- I had assumed he was with you.
- [SHELLEY STUMBLING]
1073
01:26:11,217 --> 01:26:13,390
[LAUGHTER]
1074
01:26:13,471 --> 01:26:15,286
I think we've found him.
1075
01:26:16,623 --> 01:26:18,834
Mr. Shelley.
1076
01:26:20,661 --> 01:26:23,390
You look like you could do
with some breakfast.
1077
01:26:23,471 --> 01:26:25,356
Do I?
1078
01:26:26,382 --> 01:26:28,204
How were the taverns?
1079
01:26:28,785 --> 01:26:30,655
Disgusting.
1080
01:26:31,854 --> 01:26:33,720
I, uh...
1081
01:26:33,957 --> 01:26:36,003
...I started upon my story.
1082
01:26:36,401 --> 01:26:38,631
I've called it 'The Vampyre'.
1083
01:26:38,711 --> 01:26:41,884
BYRON:
Very well. Well, we have our first story.
1084
01:26:41,964 --> 01:26:43,858
A vampire.
1085
01:26:44,409 --> 01:26:47,824
I thought the challenge
was a... was a ghost story?
1086
01:26:48,304 --> 01:26:50,766
Not a childish superstition.
1087
01:26:51,232 --> 01:26:53,611
You do not believe in vampires, Mr. Shelley?
1088
01:26:53,691 --> 01:26:56,168
No more than I believe in physicians.
1089
01:26:56,679 --> 01:26:58,708
Percy, that's quite enough.
1090
01:27:05,412 --> 01:27:09,403
I thought you would know intimately
about the existence of nocturnal beings...
1091
01:27:09,484 --> 01:27:11,776
...who exploit the vulnerable.
1092
01:27:18,735 --> 01:27:20,040
[LAUGHTER]
1093
01:27:20,420 --> 01:27:24,090
- Did you just slap him?
- Madam, you have my sympathy.
1094
01:27:26,326 --> 01:27:29,641
BYRON: No story from Polidori.
1095
01:27:29,721 --> 01:27:31,068
How disappointing.
1096
01:27:32,139 --> 01:27:35,134
Whatever shall we do
to entertain ourselves now?
1097
01:27:41,273 --> 01:27:43,334
Well, I'm going to go riding.
1098
01:27:47,288 --> 01:27:50,029
I need something thick between my legs.
1099
01:27:53,579 --> 01:27:55,466
What's wrong with you?
1100
01:27:55,546 --> 01:27:57,433
You think I'm an idiot.
1101
01:27:57,924 --> 01:28:01,789
Oh, you claim no interest in Hogg.
That's alright. But the good doctor...
1102
01:28:01,869 --> 01:28:05,376
...oh, yes, he's more
to your liking, isn't he?
1103
01:28:05,457 --> 01:28:07,317
Where were you all night?
1104
01:28:07,397 --> 01:28:10,880
I do not have to justify myself
to you or to anyone!
1105
01:28:11,538 --> 01:28:15,361
- You have no idea the responsibilities I bear.
- What responsibilities?
1106
01:28:15,942 --> 01:28:17,853
She drowned herself, Mary.
1107
01:28:19,787 --> 01:28:23,675
Threw herself in the filthy
water at Battersea.
1108
01:28:23,755 --> 01:28:25,185
Who?
1109
01:28:27,119 --> 01:28:28,530
Harriet.
1110
01:28:30,181 --> 01:28:32,044
My wife.
1111
01:28:32,124 --> 01:28:34,203
[GENTLE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1112
01:28:44,571 --> 01:28:46,661
It's time that we left this place.
1113
01:28:52,620 --> 01:28:53,969
Claire?
1114
01:28:54,049 --> 01:28:56,291
He doesn't want me.
1115
01:28:57,475 --> 01:28:59,214
He said...
1116
01:28:59,294 --> 01:29:02,307
...he said that he will provide
for the baby...
1117
01:29:03,095 --> 01:29:04,961
...but that is all.
1118
01:29:11,598 --> 01:29:13,676
[CRYING]
1119
01:29:14,116 --> 01:29:16,597
It's been such a mistake.
1120
01:29:16,954 --> 01:29:18,507
Mary, it's...
1121
01:29:19,572 --> 01:29:21,382
...a mistake.
1122
01:29:53,940 --> 01:29:56,210
MARY: I wanted to say goodbye...
1123
01:29:57,853 --> 01:30:01,702
...to thank you for your hospitality.
1124
01:30:05,401 --> 01:30:07,497
I know what you must think of me...
1125
01:30:08,921 --> 01:30:12,401
...but I have never considered
myself one for fatherhood.
1126
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:16,597
I am under no illusions about your situation.
1127
01:30:17,855 --> 01:30:21,513
- Claire, unfortunately...
- I never loved her.
1128
01:30:22,193 --> 01:30:26,398
Nor did I pretend to love her.
Nor do I believe she loved me.
1129
01:30:27,407 --> 01:30:31,313
But a man is a man...
1130
01:30:31,393 --> 01:30:32,896
...and a girl is a girl.
1131
01:30:32,995 --> 01:30:37,645
And when a young girl comes prancing
to an old man at all hours...
1132
01:30:37,725 --> 01:30:40,404
...there is but one way.
1133
01:30:42,013 --> 01:30:44,854
There is always another way.
1134
01:30:46,702 --> 01:30:49,489
And when we make such choices...
1135
01:30:49,569 --> 01:30:52,146
...there are inevitably consequences.
1136
01:31:14,329 --> 01:31:17,401
Always see.
1137
01:31:23,839 --> 01:31:25,700
Safe travels, Mary.
1138
01:31:26,842 --> 01:31:29,477
I look forward to reading your work some day.
1139
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:31,856
GODWIN'S VOICE:
Rid yourself of the thoughts
and words of other people, Mary.
1140
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:36,771
Find your own voice.
1141
01:33:02,470 --> 01:33:05,914
MARY:
It was a dreary night of November...
1142
01:33:05,994 --> 01:33:07,497
...and...
1143
01:33:08,368 --> 01:33:11,232
It was a dreary night of November...
1144
01:33:12,013 --> 01:33:15,510
...that I beheld
the accomplishment of my toils.
1145
01:33:15,590 --> 01:33:17,614
[DRAMATIC MUSIC RISING]
1146
01:33:19,696 --> 01:33:22,530
Remember that I am thy creature.
1147
01:33:23,766 --> 01:33:26,241
I ought to be thy Adam...
1148
01:33:26,321 --> 01:33:29,125
...but I am rather the fallen angel...
1149
01:33:29,647 --> 01:33:33,120
...whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
1150
01:33:36,613 --> 01:33:38,956
Everywhere I see bliss...
1151
01:33:42,184 --> 01:33:43,990
...from which...
1152
01:33:44,070 --> 01:33:45,740
[MATCH STRIKE]
1153
01:33:45,822 --> 01:33:49,091
...from which, from which I alone...
1154
01:33:49,171 --> 01:33:51,795
...am irrevocably excluded.
1155
01:33:53,379 --> 01:33:55,996
I was benevolent and good...
1156
01:33:56,677 --> 01:33:59,105
...misery made me a fiend...
1157
01:33:59,185 --> 01:34:01,348
Make me happy.
1158
01:34:01,428 --> 01:34:04,834
And I shall again be virtuous.
1159
01:34:05,951 --> 01:34:08,838
"But soon", he cried...
1160
01:34:09,846 --> 01:34:11,869
"...I shall die...
1161
01:34:12,173 --> 01:34:14,694
...and what I now feel be no longer felt.
1162
01:34:18,764 --> 01:34:20,274
Soon...
1163
01:34:21,157 --> 01:34:23,404
...these burning miseries...
1164
01:34:23,886 --> 01:34:25,811
...will be extinct.
1165
01:34:35,262 --> 01:34:38,108
I shall ascend my funeral pyre...
1166
01:34:39,201 --> 01:34:40,815
...triumphantly...
1167
01:34:42,037 --> 01:34:45,696
...and exult in the agony
of the torturing flames.
1168
01:34:47,017 --> 01:34:50,454
My spirit will sleep in peace...
1169
01:34:50,534 --> 01:34:52,670
...or if it thinks...
1170
01:34:52,750 --> 01:34:55,174
...it will not surely think thus.
1171
01:34:57,209 --> 01:34:58,803
Farewell."
1172
01:35:05,502 --> 01:35:08,088
The End.
1173
01:36:12,519 --> 01:36:15,072
SHELLEY: [WHISPERING] Mary. Mary.
1174
01:36:18,900 --> 01:36:20,690
It is magnificent.
1175
01:36:21,878 --> 01:36:25,351
It exceeds even
what I believed you capable of.
1176
01:36:25,432 --> 01:36:27,727
It has so much potential.
1177
01:36:28,343 --> 01:36:30,311
I just have one question.
1178
01:36:30,928 --> 01:36:34,019
The doctor, he gets all these body parts...
1179
01:36:34,199 --> 01:36:37,789
...and he sews them together in order
to make the most perfect creature...
1180
01:36:37,869 --> 01:36:41,215
...but when he brings it to life, essentially
what he has created is a kind of monster.
1181
01:36:41,932 --> 01:36:43,339
Yes.
1182
01:36:43,884 --> 01:36:47,699
Well, couldn't it be something more...
something more hopeful?
1183
01:36:47,779 --> 01:36:51,105
Imagine if he could create the perfect being.
1184
01:36:51,185 --> 01:36:53,188
Um, an angel.
1185
01:36:53,744 --> 01:36:54,981
An angel?
1186
01:36:55,061 --> 01:36:58,469
Yes, and in doing so,
he could show what man can be.
1187
01:36:58,849 --> 01:37:02,072
He creates a version of ourselves
that shines with goodness...
1188
01:37:02,152 --> 01:37:05,631
...and thus, thus delivers
a message for mankind.
1189
01:37:06,188 --> 01:37:08,468
It is a message for mankind.
1190
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,633
Well, I mean a message
of hope and of perfection.
1191
01:37:12,713 --> 01:37:17,308
What would you... what would we
know of hope and perfection?
1192
01:37:21,697 --> 01:37:23,490
Look around you.
1193
01:37:24,816 --> 01:37:27,086
Look at the mess we've made.
1194
01:37:28,094 --> 01:37:29,980
Look at me.
1195
01:37:45,170 --> 01:37:47,206
It makes sense this way.
1196
01:37:50,492 --> 01:37:54,732
- I'll take it to my publisher and convince...
- No. I will go alone.
1197
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:04,565
[DOOR CLOSES]
1198
01:38:07,509 --> 01:38:09,323
PUBLISHER:
You are how old, Miss Godwin?
1199
01:38:11,904 --> 01:38:13,785
I am 18.
1200
01:38:13,865 --> 01:38:15,890
PUBLISHER: That really is quite young.
1201
01:38:17,118 --> 01:38:21,291
If I'm old enough to bear children,
I'm old enough to put pen to paper.
1202
01:38:21,371 --> 01:38:25,030
Curious subject matter
for a young lady, wouldn't you say?
1203
01:38:26,011 --> 01:38:29,756
And when that young lady
just happens to be the wife, uh...
1204
01:38:30,723 --> 01:38:32,347
...companion...
1205
01:38:33,475 --> 01:38:35,271
...of Mr. Shelley.
1206
01:38:37,347 --> 01:38:40,492
Are you suggesting the work
belongs to Mr. Shelley?
1207
01:38:40,892 --> 01:38:42,502
Well...
1208
01:38:42,582 --> 01:38:46,347
...perhaps there are some other writings
of yours that I could compare it to?
1209
01:38:46,427 --> 01:38:48,548
It is my story.
1210
01:38:48,628 --> 01:38:52,540
Did you ask this of Mr. Shelley
when he first presented his work to you?
1211
01:38:52,620 --> 01:38:55,693
Or do you save this insult for young women?
1212
01:38:55,833 --> 01:38:59,105
And you dare to question a woman's ability...
1213
01:38:59,185 --> 01:39:02,615
...to experience loss, death...
1214
01:39:03,114 --> 01:39:04,716
...betrayal.
1215
01:39:04,796 --> 01:39:07,586
All of which is present in this story.
1216
01:39:07,666 --> 01:39:09,476
In my story.
1217
01:39:11,231 --> 01:39:15,096
Which you would have realized if you'd
employed the time judging the work...
1218
01:39:15,176 --> 01:39:17,254
...instead of judging me.
1219
01:39:22,142 --> 01:39:24,694
- [CHATTER]
- [CARRIAGE PASSING]
1220
01:39:31,026 --> 01:39:33,052
[DOOR CLOSES]
1221
01:39:35,497 --> 01:39:37,445
Did you finish it?
1222
01:39:39,191 --> 01:39:40,710
Yes.
1223
01:39:41,719 --> 01:39:43,763
It chilled me to the bone.
1224
01:39:45,841 --> 01:39:48,828
It's good to enjoy
a ghost story now and then.
1225
01:39:50,002 --> 01:39:52,421
We both know this is no ghost story.
1226
01:39:55,642 --> 01:40:00,095
I've never read such
a perfect encapsulation...
1227
01:40:00,977 --> 01:40:03,598
...of what it feels to be abandoned.
1228
01:40:05,918 --> 01:40:08,237
I seethed with your monster's rage.
1229
01:40:09,847 --> 01:40:11,891
I lusted for his revenge.
1230
01:40:14,761 --> 01:40:16,849
Because it was my own.
1231
01:40:16,929 --> 01:40:19,008
[GENTLE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1232
01:40:25,362 --> 01:40:26,768
I wonder...
1233
01:40:26,848 --> 01:40:30,712
...how many souls will sympathize
with your creature's torments?
1234
01:40:33,195 --> 01:40:36,282
More than should, I expect.
1235
01:40:42,022 --> 01:40:44,058
It is time I moved home.
1236
01:40:45,842 --> 01:40:48,679
You must get your story published, Mary.
1237
01:40:55,852 --> 01:40:58,866
[ECHOING VOICES]
Dear Madam, thank you
for sending us your manuscript...
1238
01:40:58,946 --> 01:41:01,352
'...Frankenstein or A Modern Prometheus'.
1239
01:41:01,433 --> 01:41:03,864
Unfortunately, this is not
a piece that interests us.
1240
01:41:03,944 --> 01:41:06,539
- MARY:
You regret to inform me...
- MAN: ...that we shall not be publishing...
1241
01:41:06,619 --> 01:41:08,985
-
...your manuscript.
- MARY:
...our taste in judgment alike...
1242
01:41:09,065 --> 01:41:12,293
-
This subject is not to...
-
...taste of our readers from a female author.
1243
01:41:12,373 --> 01:41:16,317
MAN:
In fact, it strikes us as hardly an
appropriate subject for a young lady...
1244
01:41:16,397 --> 01:41:22,082
MAN 2:
We do not deny that the work has
merit but we are cautious in proceeding.
1245
01:41:22,162 --> 01:41:26,576
MAN 3:
The truth is you have
nowhere else to go with your story.
1246
01:41:46,687 --> 01:41:51,388
The Lackington Group will publish it.
500 copies will be printed.
1247
01:41:52,092 --> 01:41:56,558
It will be published anonymously,
provided you write the introduction.
1248
01:41:57,338 --> 01:42:00,610
Well, of course. I'd be delighted.
1249
01:42:03,620 --> 01:42:05,282
So everyone will think you wrote it.
1250
01:42:05,362 --> 01:42:08,049
Provided it's published, what does it matter?
1251
01:42:09,917 --> 01:42:11,746
What does it matter?
1252
01:42:13,395 --> 01:42:16,891
How is it possible
that you still don't understand?
1253
01:42:17,484 --> 01:42:21,337
You want me to abandon my claim to it
because my gender might spoil its success.
1254
01:42:21,417 --> 01:42:24,060
- I never said that.
- You don't have to.
1255
01:42:24,150 --> 01:42:27,739
Not once do you ever think about
the consequences of your actions!
1256
01:42:27,819 --> 01:42:30,833
You bear just as much
responsibility for our life as I.
1257
01:42:30,913 --> 01:42:35,230
I'm not some grand architect
of our misery, Mary.
1258
01:42:35,310 --> 01:42:37,883
You bear the responsibility.
1259
01:42:37,963 --> 01:42:41,617
I bear the responsibility
of ever believing in you!
1260
01:42:56,031 --> 01:42:58,069
[BANGING]
1261
01:43:01,653 --> 01:43:03,731
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
1262
01:44:13,766 --> 01:44:15,788
[THUMPING OUTSIDE]
1263
01:44:18,871 --> 01:44:21,372
- POLIDORI: Thank you.
- John!
1264
01:44:29,081 --> 01:44:32,752
- You look...
- Like I've seen better days?
1265
01:44:33,545 --> 01:44:35,608
Mr. Godwin said the same.
1266
01:44:35,688 --> 01:44:37,331
You saw my father?
1267
01:44:39,234 --> 01:44:42,697
Yes. His shop is stocking my work.
1268
01:44:43,630 --> 01:44:46,634
- You finished it.
- Not quite.
1269
01:44:48,774 --> 01:44:52,133
- Lord Byron?
- I'd all but forgotten about it until...
1270
01:44:52,213 --> 01:44:56,060
...Byron's publisher somehow
got ahold of it and printed it as his.
1271
01:44:57,377 --> 01:45:00,765
I tried to assert my rights as
the true author but in response...
1272
01:45:00,845 --> 01:45:02,603
...I've only been called a plagiarist.
1273
01:45:02,683 --> 01:45:05,822
I will write to Byron and appeal
to him to tell the truth.
1274
01:45:05,902 --> 01:45:07,735
He has already tried.
1275
01:45:07,815 --> 01:45:09,760
He despises the story.
1276
01:45:09,840 --> 01:45:12,684
The public just has no interest in the truth.
1277
01:45:13,626 --> 01:45:16,355
What about your mysterious masterpiece?
1278
01:45:16,436 --> 01:45:18,860
The absence of your name was notable.
1279
01:45:18,940 --> 01:45:20,586
It is ironic, isn't it?
1280
01:45:20,666 --> 01:45:23,158
I write a story lampooning Byron...
1281
01:45:23,238 --> 01:45:27,494
...the blood-sucking devourer
of souls and he gets all the credit.
1282
01:45:27,574 --> 01:45:31,748
While you wrote about a desperately
lonely and abandoned creature.
1283
01:45:31,828 --> 01:45:34,366
Abandoned by
an irresponsible narcissist and...
1284
01:45:34,447 --> 01:45:36,796
Shelley gets all the credit.
1285
01:45:38,935 --> 01:45:41,714
Nonetheless, congratulations.
1286
01:45:43,173 --> 01:45:45,152
Shelley must be pleased.
1287
01:45:45,232 --> 01:45:47,502
I haven't seen Shelley in months.
1288
01:45:54,767 --> 01:45:56,247
It's for you.
1289
01:46:00,716 --> 01:46:03,377
We have created monsters, Mary.
1290
01:46:04,736 --> 01:46:06,789
But let's not let them devour us.
1291
01:46:37,409 --> 01:46:39,098
[STREET CHATTER]
1292
01:46:55,678 --> 01:46:57,764
[AUDIENCE TALKING]
1293
01:47:10,611 --> 01:47:12,482
[DOORBELL RINGS]
1294
01:47:26,878 --> 01:47:29,514
Gentlemen, welcome. Thank you for coming.
1295
01:47:30,071 --> 01:47:33,180
We're here to celebrate the...
1296
01:47:33,260 --> 01:47:36,372
...the success of 'Frankenstein;
Or The Modern Prometheus'.
1297
01:47:36,453 --> 01:47:39,976
It's a remarkable story
asserting, as it does, the...
1298
01:47:40,056 --> 01:47:43,013
...absolute human necessity for connection.
1299
01:47:43,093 --> 01:47:46,717
From the moment Doctor Frankenstein's
creature opens its eyes...
1300
01:47:46,797 --> 01:47:49,346
...it seeks the touch of its creator.
1301
01:47:49,427 --> 01:47:51,398
But he recoils in terror...
1302
01:47:51,579 --> 01:47:56,443
...leaving the creature to its first
of many experiences of neglect...
1303
01:47:56,523 --> 01:47:58,419
...and isolation.
1304
01:47:58,500 --> 01:48:03,313
And if only Frankenstein had been
able to bestow upon his creation...
1305
01:48:04,540 --> 01:48:08,013
...a compassionate touch. A kind word.
1306
01:48:08,744 --> 01:48:11,005
What a tragedy might have been avoided.
1307
01:48:11,597 --> 01:48:14,263
But it is a credit to the writer...
1308
01:48:14,343 --> 01:48:18,544
...that it is these very thoughts
that continue to run through our minds...
1309
01:48:18,624 --> 01:48:22,034
...long after we've turned
the final page of this book...
1310
01:48:22,114 --> 01:48:27,722
...which I know you all agree
is one of the most complete and...
1311
01:48:28,605 --> 01:48:32,007
...certainly one of the most
original publications of our age.
1312
01:48:34,711 --> 01:48:35,935
As...
1313
01:48:37,238 --> 01:48:39,131
[CROWD APPLAUDING]
1314
01:48:43,770 --> 01:48:45,656
SHELLEY: Thank you.
1315
01:48:46,313 --> 01:48:48,182
Thank you.
1316
01:48:50,661 --> 01:48:52,276
I know many of you wonder...
1317
01:48:52,356 --> 01:48:54,796
...who could have written
this horrific tale...
1318
01:48:54,876 --> 01:48:57,403
...and why was it published anonymously.
1319
01:48:57,784 --> 01:49:01,391
I see some of you suggest
that the work belongs to me.
1320
01:49:01,822 --> 01:49:06,666
Indeed, you could say that the work
would not even exist without my contribution.
1321
01:49:12,073 --> 01:49:13,918
But to my shame...
1322
01:49:15,843 --> 01:49:20,117
...the only claim I remotely
have to this work...
1323
01:49:20,197 --> 01:49:22,486
...is inspiring the desperate loneliness...
1324
01:49:22,566 --> 01:49:25,625
...that defines Frankenstein's creature.
1325
01:49:28,605 --> 01:49:33,982
The author of 'Frankenstein;
Or A Modern Prometheus' is, of course...
1326
01:49:34,062 --> 01:49:36,649
...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
1327
01:49:36,729 --> 01:49:38,178
[CROWD MURMURS]
1328
01:49:38,258 --> 01:49:40,335
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
1329
01:49:43,721 --> 01:49:47,969
It is a work of singular genius
and she is indebted to no one...
1330
01:49:48,049 --> 01:49:50,094
...in its creation.
1331
01:50:03,183 --> 01:50:04,776
MARY: Percy.
1332
01:50:05,936 --> 01:50:07,346
Mary.
1333
01:50:13,075 --> 01:50:15,820
I really thought you'd left for good.
1334
01:50:22,418 --> 01:50:25,481
I never promised you a life without misery...
1335
01:50:27,023 --> 01:50:30,831
...but I underestimated
the depths of despair...
1336
01:50:31,311 --> 01:50:34,524
...and the weight of regret
we were to endure.
1337
01:50:36,608 --> 01:50:39,620
I lost everything to be with you, Percy.
1338
01:50:42,705 --> 01:50:45,942
Always set out to create
something wonderful...
1339
01:50:47,828 --> 01:50:49,751
...something beautiful.
1340
01:50:51,231 --> 01:50:54,476
But something volatile seethed within us.
1341
01:50:57,278 --> 01:50:58,856
Behold...
1342
01:51:00,823 --> 01:51:03,893
...the monster galvanized...
1343
01:51:06,688 --> 01:51:09,789
...but if I had not learned to fight...
1344
01:51:09,869 --> 01:51:11,827
...through the anguish...
1345
01:51:12,728 --> 01:51:15,180
I would not have found this voice again.
1346
01:51:17,014 --> 01:51:19,671
My choices made me who I am.
1347
01:51:22,670 --> 01:51:25,518
And I regret nothing.
1348
01:51:25,998 --> 01:51:28,027
[MUSIC SWELLS]
1349
01:53:10,252 --> 01:53:12,875
MARY:
You were soon
borne away by the waves...
1350
01:53:13,355 --> 01:53:14,987
...and lost...
1351
01:53:15,067 --> 01:53:17,471
...in darkness and distance.
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