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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:39,970 --> 00:00:41,973 [SOFT RAIN PATTERING] 2 00:00:48,185 --> 00:00:50,216 [CROW CALLING] 3 00:00:59,822 --> 00:01:01,918 [PENCIL WRITING] 4 00:01:07,372 --> 00:01:09,426 [MARY BREATHING SOFTLY] 5 00:01:10,207 --> 00:01:12,254 [DISTANT CROWS CALLS] 6 00:01:12,334 --> 00:01:14,374 [WRITING CONTINUES] 7 00:01:15,255 --> 00:01:17,259 [MARY WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY] 8 00:01:20,886 --> 00:01:22,914 [WRITING CONTINUES] 9 00:01:25,347 --> 00:01:27,412 [GENTLE DRAMATIC MUSIC] 10 00:01:28,494 --> 00:01:30,522 [WRITING STOPS] 11 00:01:43,158 --> 00:01:48,432 MARY: Scarcely had the demon cast his burning stare upon her. 12 00:01:49,605 --> 00:01:51,409 Scarcely had... 13 00:01:52,024 --> 00:01:55,872 ...the demon cast his burning stare upon her... 14 00:01:57,087 --> 00:02:01,146 ...leaving his face entirely without symmetry... 15 00:02:02,327 --> 00:02:06,567 ...leaving his face entirely without form... 16 00:02:07,347 --> 00:02:11,063 ...and as her fingertips touched upon his lips... 17 00:02:11,143 --> 00:02:13,026 - ...he melted into her. - [THUNDER RUMBLES] 18 00:02:43,469 --> 00:02:45,513 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 19 00:02:57,773 --> 00:02:59,731 [HORSE WHINNIES] 20 00:03:08,869 --> 00:03:10,879 - She's looking for you. - [MUSIC FADES] 21 00:03:13,706 --> 00:03:17,237 WILLIAM: Next time you run off to read ghost stories, take me with you. 22 00:03:17,317 --> 00:03:19,965 Who says I was reading ghost stories? 23 00:03:20,045 --> 00:03:23,511 - It's thrilling, isn't it? - My heart was racing, I was so scared. 24 00:03:23,591 --> 00:03:26,420 If I were you, I'd be more scared of your father catching you reading it. 25 00:03:26,501 --> 00:03:28,740 I don't know how he vexes so. 26 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:32,060 People liked his Gothic novels. 27 00:03:32,983 --> 00:03:35,355 Your father is in the bookshop working. 28 00:03:35,436 --> 00:03:38,200 Claire has been tending to the house. 29 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,119 I have spent all hours going through the ledgers. 30 00:03:41,827 --> 00:03:44,432 Where were you today that you couldn't relieve your father for a few hours? 31 00:03:44,512 --> 00:03:48,577 I completed my work for today. I just went out for some fresh air. 32 00:03:51,211 --> 00:03:53,056 I know where you were. 33 00:03:57,082 --> 00:03:59,463 Look who has returned, my dear. 34 00:04:00,903 --> 00:04:02,959 I just went out for a walk. 35 00:04:05,508 --> 00:04:07,571 [DISTANT CHATTER ON THE STREET] 36 00:04:10,538 --> 00:04:15,167 GODWIN: Glad to see you devoting yourself to these great works, Mary. 37 00:04:15,561 --> 00:04:17,582 [BELL ON DOOR JINGLES] 38 00:04:19,047 --> 00:04:23,337 "To love reading is to have everything within your reach." 39 00:04:25,736 --> 00:04:27,951 [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES] 40 00:04:28,031 --> 00:04:30,994 MAN: Payment is over-due, Mr. Godwin. 41 00:04:31,074 --> 00:04:34,299 Need I remind you of the conditions of your loan? 42 00:04:34,379 --> 00:04:36,601 GODWIN: Business has been very poor. 43 00:04:37,523 --> 00:04:39,665 Allow me one more month. 44 00:04:39,985 --> 00:04:42,115 MAN: Another month? It's six months already. 45 00:04:42,195 --> 00:04:45,355 Now, weren't you asking for a ghost story? 46 00:04:45,436 --> 00:04:48,514 - Is it a new one? - MAN: Another month. Understand? 47 00:04:48,594 --> 00:04:50,640 [MYSTERIOUS MUSIC] 48 00:04:56,602 --> 00:04:59,230 MARY: I will rise from the grave... 49 00:05:00,939 --> 00:05:04,446 ...to tell the tale of the treachery I have suffered. 50 00:05:07,978 --> 00:05:10,178 And to seek my revenge! 51 00:05:10,258 --> 00:05:11,401 [GIGGLING] 52 00:05:11,482 --> 00:05:13,545 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 53 00:05:21,166 --> 00:05:24,622 MARY: Scarcely had the demon cast... 54 00:05:25,796 --> 00:05:29,002 ...his burning stare upon her... 55 00:05:29,943 --> 00:05:32,958 ...in her icy cheeks... 56 00:05:33,038 --> 00:05:35,110 [CLAIRE WHIMPERING] 57 00:05:36,692 --> 00:05:38,213 [FRETTING INDISTINCTLY] 58 00:05:38,293 --> 00:05:40,476 Claire, Claire. Claire! 59 00:05:40,556 --> 00:05:42,451 It's just a nightmare. 60 00:05:42,631 --> 00:05:44,461 It's all right. 61 00:05:45,691 --> 00:05:47,521 Go back to sleep. 62 00:05:47,986 --> 00:05:49,862 - It's all right. - [CLAIRE WHIMPERS] 63 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,853 Go back to sleep. 64 00:06:05,836 --> 00:06:07,931 [CLOCK BELLS RINGING IN THE DISTANCE] 65 00:06:23,421 --> 00:06:25,504 [QUIET, MELANCHOLY MUSIC] 66 00:06:30,779 --> 00:06:32,859 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 67 00:06:37,893 --> 00:06:39,729 GODWIN: You can't sleep? 68 00:06:47,177 --> 00:06:49,107 Do you miss her? 69 00:06:56,705 --> 00:06:58,760 GODWIN: She was so full of passion. 70 00:07:00,050 --> 00:07:02,063 So full of defiance. 71 00:07:04,463 --> 00:07:08,513 As if she were at war constantly with everyone and everything. 72 00:07:11,069 --> 00:07:13,357 And enjoying every moment of the battle. 73 00:07:15,205 --> 00:07:18,252 Warriors like your mother are never long for this world. 74 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:27,971 [DISTANT CHATTER ON THE STREET] 75 00:07:30,363 --> 00:07:33,628 MARY: The Devil's claws lunged at the maiden's neck. 76 00:07:35,010 --> 00:07:37,063 Sinking his talons... 77 00:07:38,814 --> 00:07:42,721 ...deep, deep into her ripe, pale skin. 78 00:07:42,801 --> 00:07:44,642 Blood dripped... 79 00:07:45,609 --> 00:07:47,901 ...like tracks in milky snow. 80 00:07:47,981 --> 00:07:50,285 - MRS. GODWIN: Mary? - MARY: She screamed. 81 00:07:50,365 --> 00:07:51,767 MRS. GODWIN: Where are you? 82 00:07:51,847 --> 00:07:53,532 [FOOTSTEPS] 83 00:07:53,612 --> 00:07:58,537 No one watching the shop, and you back here scribbling away like a child. 84 00:07:58,617 --> 00:08:01,772 Let's see what's so important that it's kept you from your work, shall we? 85 00:08:01,852 --> 00:08:03,655 - It is private. - [SCOFFS] 86 00:08:04,565 --> 00:08:07,448 What thoughts haunt the daughter of these esteemed writers? 87 00:08:07,528 --> 00:08:09,374 - Let go! - [GASPING] 88 00:08:12,848 --> 00:08:16,027 - Mary. - She pushed me! 89 00:08:16,109 --> 00:08:18,939 - Did you not see her... - I didn't do anything. 90 00:08:19,019 --> 00:08:23,078 - You all right? - I can't live with someone like this. 91 00:08:23,158 --> 00:08:25,270 There's not a grain of respect in her. 92 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:28,206 - MARY: I didn't do anything! - That's enough. That's enough. 93 00:08:34,527 --> 00:08:35,890 GODWIN: [VOICEOVER] He's an old friend. 94 00:08:35,970 --> 00:08:40,279 Mr. Baxter is as firm a believer in education as I am. 95 00:08:40,359 --> 00:08:43,447 - You'll find his house very comfortable. - MARY: Scotland? 96 00:08:44,203 --> 00:08:47,050 GODWIN: I'm sending you away because I love you, Mary. 97 00:08:48,208 --> 00:08:51,823 And because I sincerely hope that you'll find the refuge that you need there. 98 00:08:51,903 --> 00:08:53,991 [MELANCHOLY MUSIC] 99 00:08:55,297 --> 00:08:59,046 Also that the solitude will give you time for introspection. 100 00:09:00,061 --> 00:09:01,958 Your writing... 101 00:09:02,179 --> 00:09:04,356 ...this is the work of an imitator. 102 00:09:04,437 --> 00:09:09,486 Rid yourself of the thoughts and words of other people, Mary. 103 00:09:10,863 --> 00:09:12,674 Find your own voice. 104 00:09:24,536 --> 00:09:26,260 [WHIMPERING] 105 00:09:42,012 --> 00:09:44,048 [BIRDS SINGING] 106 00:09:51,212 --> 00:09:55,887 Mary! Welcome. Oh, my God, you look so much like your mother. 107 00:09:55,967 --> 00:09:58,907 And, thank the Lord, not a thing like your father. I'm William Baxter. 108 00:09:58,987 --> 00:10:01,126 This is my daughter Isabel. 109 00:10:01,206 --> 00:10:03,961 We'll do our best to keep you amused out here, Mary. 110 00:10:04,041 --> 00:10:06,081 It may not be as bustling as London... 111 00:10:06,161 --> 00:10:09,025 ...but I'm sure we can find some ways to pass the time. 112 00:10:26,598 --> 00:10:28,604 The night is so different here. 113 00:10:28,684 --> 00:10:31,356 How do people sleep with all this silence? 114 00:10:32,237 --> 00:10:34,712 Come on, I know just where to go. 115 00:10:39,695 --> 00:10:42,509 ISABEL: I've thought of trying to summon my mother... 116 00:10:42,789 --> 00:10:44,652 - ...by séance. - [BRANCHES CRACKLING] 117 00:10:46,852 --> 00:10:49,297 But she suffered so long with illness... 118 00:10:50,330 --> 00:10:53,185 ...what if she has finally found peace at last? 119 00:10:53,984 --> 00:10:56,054 Wouldn't it be cruel to disturb her? 120 00:10:57,695 --> 00:10:59,967 MARY: Do you think it could really work... 121 00:11:00,047 --> 00:11:01,358 ...reaching the dead? 122 00:11:01,439 --> 00:11:02,829 [INSECTS CHIRPING] 123 00:11:02,909 --> 00:11:04,997 I already feel her presence. 124 00:11:06,722 --> 00:11:08,526 I miss her so much. 125 00:11:10,091 --> 00:11:12,346 Not a day goes by when I don't think of her. 126 00:11:16,256 --> 00:11:19,496 Would you ever consider trying to contact your mother? 127 00:11:21,578 --> 00:11:23,808 Maybe she wouldn't want me to. 128 00:11:24,740 --> 00:11:27,014 Given I was the one who killed her. 129 00:11:29,324 --> 00:11:31,999 She died just days after I was born. 130 00:11:35,066 --> 00:11:36,921 Oh, Mary. 131 00:11:41,172 --> 00:11:43,720 - [WIND RUSTLES] - [MYSTERIOUS MUSIC] 132 00:11:50,723 --> 00:11:52,813 [WATER RUSHING] 133 00:11:54,394 --> 00:11:56,467 [PLEASANT, DRAMATIC MUSIC] 134 00:11:58,048 --> 00:12:00,202 I love it in Scotland. 135 00:12:00,282 --> 00:12:02,973 - Nothing is as I expected it would be. - [LAUGHS] 136 00:12:03,454 --> 00:12:06,859 You've only been here a few weeks. Give it time. 137 00:12:07,933 --> 00:12:11,529 In London it's not often we have occasion to picnic by the river. 138 00:12:11,609 --> 00:12:14,495 Your mistake is waiting for an occasion. 139 00:12:14,956 --> 00:12:17,017 [GIGGLES] 140 00:12:21,504 --> 00:12:23,336 [WIND RUSTLING] 141 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,294 COLERIDGE: [RECITING] I looked upon the rotting sea and drew my eyes away 142 00:12:33,374 --> 00:12:36,839 I looked upon the rotting deck And there the dead men lay 143 00:12:36,919 --> 00:12:39,676 I looked to Heaven and tried to pray 144 00:12:40,256 --> 00:12:42,763 But before a prayer had gushed A wicked whisper came... 145 00:12:42,843 --> 00:12:45,432 BAXTER: Come in. Come in. You must be freezing. 146 00:12:45,512 --> 00:12:47,825 If I could just give you a couple of my essays. 147 00:12:47,905 --> 00:12:48,910 [WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] 148 00:12:48,990 --> 00:12:50,962 My contribution to this evening's entertainment. 149 00:12:51,042 --> 00:12:52,664 - BAXTER: How are you? - SHELLEY: Good. How's the party? 150 00:12:52,744 --> 00:12:55,807 Isabel... who is that? 151 00:12:56,832 --> 00:12:59,703 Oh, that's Shelley. 152 00:13:00,126 --> 00:13:02,865 Beautiful, isn't he? He's a radical poet. 153 00:13:02,945 --> 00:13:06,268 He thinks poetry should reform society, and so he's often in trouble. 154 00:13:06,348 --> 00:13:08,555 MARY: Sounds like quite a catch. 155 00:13:08,635 --> 00:13:12,217 - Let me introduce you to some friends. - BAXTER: There's someone I'd like you to meet. 156 00:13:12,367 --> 00:13:14,194 Good luck. 157 00:13:14,274 --> 00:13:18,565 - Percy, may I present Mary. Mary... - COLERIDGE: Baxter! Come and join us! 158 00:13:18,645 --> 00:13:23,110 Oh, it's Coleridge. Mary, could you put these nameplates out, please? 159 00:13:26,694 --> 00:13:28,550 Let me get those for you. 160 00:13:30,563 --> 00:13:32,910 I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley. 161 00:13:34,770 --> 00:13:37,258 I am Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin. 162 00:13:37,338 --> 00:13:41,745 Of course. Baxter mentioned you'd be joining the family here. 163 00:13:42,535 --> 00:13:46,410 I am a great admirer of both your parents' work. 164 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:55,727 MARY: I hope I can entrust you to this task, Mr. Shelley. 165 00:13:55,807 --> 00:14:00,106 - Or will you try to incite me to revolution? - SHELLEY: My reputation precedes me. 166 00:14:00,687 --> 00:14:03,860 Won't you welcome a change from the deafening quiet? 167 00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:05,995 MARY: I've grown accustomed to it. 168 00:14:06,677 --> 00:14:10,125 In London I spend most of my time in my father's bookshop. 169 00:14:10,706 --> 00:14:14,286 So the deafening quiet is not as dramatic as you may think. 170 00:14:14,366 --> 00:14:18,309 Baxter does his best for these gatherings. Any lover of poetry will surely find a... 171 00:14:18,389 --> 00:14:21,643 ...great thrill in the work that is being presented here. 172 00:14:23,835 --> 00:14:26,608 So surely you are a writer yourself? 173 00:14:28,724 --> 00:14:31,979 Not really. Nothing substantial. 174 00:14:32,519 --> 00:14:34,807 I hope to, someday. 175 00:14:35,387 --> 00:14:39,230 And what, may I ask, would you constitute as "substantial" in your eyes? 176 00:14:40,877 --> 00:14:43,875 Anything that curdles the blood... 177 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:46,938 ...and quickens the beatings of the heart. 178 00:14:48,318 --> 00:14:50,707 BAXTER: Ah, perfect! 179 00:14:50,787 --> 00:14:54,185 Now may I steal Mr. Shelley away? 180 00:14:54,516 --> 00:14:57,997 - We would love a poem, sir. - Certainly, sir. 181 00:14:59,762 --> 00:15:04,586 Without an audience, ideas remain mere words on a page. 182 00:15:08,989 --> 00:15:12,546 - SERVANT WOMAN: Mr. Shelley, your essay. - Oh, I have no need for those. 183 00:15:12,626 --> 00:15:17,299 Thank you. I shall trust in the spark of new found inspiration. 184 00:15:17,379 --> 00:15:18,973 [GUESTS CHATTERING] 185 00:15:30,385 --> 00:15:34,350 Oh, not the visioned poet in his dreams... 186 00:15:34,431 --> 00:15:38,564 ...when silvery clouds float through the wildered brain... 187 00:15:38,644 --> 00:15:43,801 ...when every sight of lovely, wild and grand... 188 00:15:43,881 --> 00:15:45,512 ...astonishes... 189 00:15:45,592 --> 00:15:47,530 ...enraptures... 190 00:15:47,610 --> 00:15:49,222 ...elevates... 191 00:15:50,237 --> 00:15:51,752 ...so bright... 192 00:15:52,032 --> 00:15:55,112 ...so fair, so wild a shape... 193 00:15:55,192 --> 00:15:59,341 ...hath ever yet beheld as that which reined the coursers of the air... 194 00:15:59,421 --> 00:16:02,713 ...and poured the magic of her gaze... 195 00:16:02,793 --> 00:16:05,088 ...upon the maiden's sleep. 196 00:16:08,214 --> 00:16:10,245 [DRAMATIC, ROMANTIC MUSIC] 197 00:16:11,927 --> 00:16:14,131 [GUESTS CHATTER] 198 00:16:34,825 --> 00:16:38,414 COLERIDGE: [RECITING] Alone, alone, all alone... 199 00:16:38,495 --> 00:16:41,158 ...upon the wide, wide sea... 200 00:16:41,238 --> 00:16:43,509 ...and God will not take pity... 201 00:16:43,589 --> 00:16:46,025 - ...on my soul in agony. - [MAN LAUGHING] 202 00:16:47,963 --> 00:16:51,011 - This weather. - Ah, stop complaining. 203 00:16:51,091 --> 00:16:54,124 - It's Scotland, what do you expect? - So I say to you... 204 00:16:54,204 --> 00:16:57,308 ...if all things come from God and we all come from God... 205 00:16:57,388 --> 00:16:59,452 ...are we not part of God? 206 00:16:59,532 --> 00:17:02,673 When we think, do we not behold the very thoughts of God? 207 00:17:02,753 --> 00:17:06,025 - Can't say I feel like much of a god. - Your body is tired, Baxter... 208 00:17:06,105 --> 00:17:08,578 ...but your spirit, it longs to soar. 209 00:17:10,944 --> 00:17:13,091 What of you, Miss Godwin? 210 00:17:13,171 --> 00:17:15,469 Do you think you are of God... 211 00:17:15,549 --> 00:17:17,803 ...like the great poet Coleridge? 212 00:17:17,883 --> 00:17:19,938 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 213 00:17:20,019 --> 00:17:21,766 I'll admit... 214 00:17:21,846 --> 00:17:26,416 ...I thought Coleridge was much more captivating when I was a child. 215 00:17:26,497 --> 00:17:27,481 There you go. 216 00:17:27,561 --> 00:17:29,670 I'm surprised you can remember back that far. 217 00:17:29,750 --> 00:17:31,510 COLERIDGE: Behold the majesty of God's creation... 218 00:17:31,590 --> 00:17:33,929 Well, just how old are you then... 219 00:17:34,009 --> 00:17:36,096 ...dear ancient one? 220 00:17:36,176 --> 00:17:38,258 Old enough to know why you are asking. 221 00:17:38,338 --> 00:17:39,635 Ah. 222 00:17:39,715 --> 00:17:41,745 COLERIDGE: It's inspirational, don't you think? 223 00:17:41,825 --> 00:17:43,897 - I'm 16. - Hmm. 224 00:17:43,977 --> 00:17:47,052 - 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. 104379