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- Scarcely had the demon cast
- his burning stare upon her.
- 2
- 00:01:49,585 --> 00:01:51,389
- Scarcely had...
- 3
- 00:01:52,004 --> 00:01:55,852
- ...the demon cast
- his burning stare upon her...
- 4
- 00:01:57,067 --> 00:02:01,126
- ...leaving his face
- entirely without symmetry...
- 5
- 00:02:02,307 --> 00:02:06,547
- ...leaving his face entirely without form...
- 6
- 00:02:07,327 --> 00:02:11,043
- ...and as her fingertips
- touched upon his lips...
- 7
- 00:02:11,123 --> 00:02:13,006
- ...he melted into her.
- 8
- 00:03:08,849 --> 00:03:10,859
- She's looking for you.
- 9
- 00:03:13,686 --> 00:03:17,217
- Next time you run off to read
- ghost stories, take me with you.
- 10
- 00:03:17,297 --> 00:03:19,945
- Who says I was reading ghost stories?
- 11
- 00:03:20,025 --> 00:03:23,491
- - It's thrilling, isn't it?
- - My heart was racing, I was so scared.
- 12
- 00:03:23,571 --> 00:03:26,401
- If I were you, I'd be more scared
- of your father catching you reading it.
- 13
- 00:03:26,481 --> 00:03:28,720
- I don't know how he vexes so.
- 14
- 00:03:29,620 --> 00:03:32,040
- People liked his Gothic novels.
- 15
- 00:03:32,963 --> 00:03:35,335
- Your father is in the bookshop working.
- 16
- 00:03:35,416 --> 00:03:38,180
- Claire has been tending to the house.
- 17
- 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:41,099
- I have spent all hours
- going through the ledgers.
- 18
- 00:03:41,807 --> 00:03:44,412
- Where were you today that you couldn't
- relieve your father for a few hours?
- 19
- 00:03:44,492 --> 00:03:48,557
- I completed my work for today.
- I just went out for some fresh air.
- 20
- 00:03:51,191 --> 00:03:53,036
- I know where you were.
- 21
- 00:03:57,062 --> 00:03:59,443
- Look who has returned, my dear.
- 22
- 00:04:00,883 --> 00:04:02,939
- I just went out for a walk.
- 23
- 00:04:10,518 --> 00:04:15,147
- Glad to see you devoting yourself
- to these great works, Mary.
- 24
- 00:04:19,027 --> 00:04:23,317
- "To love reading is to have
- everything within your reach."
- 25
- 00:04:28,011 --> 00:04:30,974
- Payment is over-due, Mr. Godwin.
- 26
- 00:04:31,054 --> 00:04:34,279
- Need I remind you
- of the conditions of your loan?
- 27
- 00:04:34,359 --> 00:04:36,581
- Business has been very poor.
- 28
- 00:04:37,503 --> 00:04:39,645
- Allow me one more month.
- 29
- 00:04:39,965 --> 00:04:42,095
- Another month? It's six months already.
- 30
- 00:04:42,175 --> 00:04:45,335
- Now, weren't you asking for a ghost story?
- 31
- 00:04:45,416 --> 00:04:48,494
- - Is it a new one?
- - Another month. Understand?
- 32
- 00:04:56,582 --> 00:04:59,210
- I will rise from the grave...
- 33
- 00:05:00,919 --> 00:05:04,426
- ...to tell the tale of the treachery
- I have suffered.
- 34
- 00:05:07,958 --> 00:05:10,158
- And to seek my revenge!
- 35
- 00:05:21,146 --> 00:05:24,602
- Scarcely had the demon cast...
- 36
- 00:05:25,776 --> 00:05:28,982
- ...his burning stare upon her...
- 37
- 00:05:29,923 --> 00:05:32,938
- ...in her icy cheeks...
- 38
- 00:05:38,273 --> 00:05:40,456
- Claire, Claire. Claire!
- 39
- 00:05:40,536 --> 00:05:42,431
- It's just a nightmare.
- 40
- 00:05:42,611 --> 00:05:44,441
- It's all right.
- 41
- 00:05:45,671 --> 00:05:47,501
- Go back to sleep.
- 42
- 00:05:47,966 --> 00:05:49,842
- It's all right.
- 43
- 00:05:52,020 --> 00:05:53,833
- Go back to sleep.
- 44
- 00:06:37,873 --> 00:06:39,709
- You can't sleep?
- 45
- 00:06:47,157 --> 00:06:49,087
- Do you miss her?
- 46
- 00:06:56,685 --> 00:06:58,740
- She was so full of passion.
- 47
- 00:07:00,030 --> 00:07:02,043
- So full of defiance.
- 48
- 00:07:04,443 --> 00:07:08,493
- As if she were at war constantly
- with everyone and everything.
- 49
- 00:07:11,049 --> 00:07:13,337
- And enjoying every moment of the battle.
- 50
- 00:07:15,185 --> 00:07:18,232
- Warriors like your mother
- are never long for this world.
- 51
- 00:07:30,343 --> 00:07:33,608
- The Devil's claws lunged
- at the maiden's neck.
- 52
- 00:07:34,990 --> 00:07:37,043
- Sinking his talons...
- 53
- 00:07:38,794 --> 00:07:42,701
- ...deep, deep into her ripe, pale skin.
- 54
- 00:07:42,781 --> 00:07:44,622
- Blood dripped...
- 55
- 00:07:45,589 --> 00:07:47,881
- ...like tracks in milky snow.
- 56
- 00:07:47,961 --> 00:07:50,265
- - Mary?
- - She screamed.
- 57
- 00:07:50,345 --> 00:07:51,747
- Where are you?
- 58
- 00:07:53,592 --> 00:07:58,517
- No one watching the shop, and you
- back here scribbling away like a child.
- 59
- 00:07:58,597 --> 00:08:01,752
- Let's see what's so important that it's
- kept you from your work, shall we?
- 60
- 00:08:01,832 --> 00:08:03,635
- It is private.
- 61
- 00:08:04,545 --> 00:08:07,428
- What thoughts haunt the daughter
- of these esteemed writers?
- 62
- 00:08:07,508 --> 00:08:09,354
- Let go!
- 63
- 00:08:12,828 --> 00:08:16,007
- - Mary.
- - She pushed me!
- 64
- 00:08:16,089 --> 00:08:18,919
- - Did you not see her...
- - I didn't do anything.
- 65
- 00:08:18,999 --> 00:08:23,058
- - You all right?
- - I can't live with someone like this.
- 66
- 00:08:23,138 --> 00:08:25,250
- There's not a grain of respect in her.
- 67
- 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:28,186
- - I didn't do anything!
- - That's enough. That's enough.
- 68
- 00:08:34,507 --> 00:08:35,870
- He's an old friend.
- 69
- 00:08:35,950 --> 00:08:40,259
- Mr. Baxter is as firm a believer
- in education as I am.
- 70
- 00:08:40,339 --> 00:08:43,427
- - You'll find his house very comfortable.
- - Scotland?
- 71
- 00:08:44,183 --> 00:08:47,030
- I'm sending you away
- because I love you, Mary.
- 72
- 00:08:48,188 --> 00:08:51,803
- And because I sincerely hope that you'll
- find the refuge that you need there.
- 73
- 00:08:55,277 --> 00:08:59,026
- Also that the solitude
- will give you time for introspection.
- 74
- 00:09:00,041 --> 00:09:01,938
- Your writing...
- 75
- 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:04,336
- ...this is the work of an imitator.
- 76
- 00:09:04,417 --> 00:09:09,466
- Rid yourself of the thoughts
- and words of other people, Mary.
- 77
- 00:09:10,843 --> 00:09:12,654
- Find your own voice.
- 78
- 00:09:51,192 --> 00:09:55,867
- Mary! Welcome. Oh, my God,
- you look so much like your mother.
- 79
- 00:09:55,947 --> 00:09:58,887
- And, thank the Lord, not a thing
- like your father. I'm William Baxter.
- 80
- 00:09:58,967 --> 00:10:01,106
- This is my daughter Isabel.
- 81
- 00:10:01,186 --> 00:10:03,941
- We'll do our best to keep you
- amused out here, Mary.
- 82
- 00:10:04,021 --> 00:10:06,061
- It may not be as bustling as London...
- 83
- 00:10:06,141 --> 00:10:09,005
- ...but I'm sure we can find
- some ways to pass the time.
- 84
- 00:10:26,578 --> 00:10:28,584
- The night is so different here.
- 85
- 00:10:28,664 --> 00:10:31,336
- How do people sleep with all this silence?
- 86
- 00:10:32,217 --> 00:10:34,692
- Come on, I know just where to go.
- 87
- 00:10:39,675 --> 00:10:42,489
- I've thought of trying to summon my mother...
- 88
- 00:10:42,769 --> 00:10:44,632
- ...by séance.
- 89
- 00:10:46,832 --> 00:10:49,277
- But she suffered so long with illness...
- 90
- 00:10:50,310 --> 00:10:53,165
- ...what if she has finally
- found peace at last?
- 91
- 00:10:53,964 --> 00:10:56,034
- Wouldn't it be cruel to disturb her?
- 92
- 00:10:57,675 --> 00:10:59,947
- Do you think it could really work...
- 93
- 00:11:00,027 --> 00:11:01,338
- ...reaching the dead?
- 94
- 00:11:02,889 --> 00:11:04,977
- I already feel her presence.
- 95
- 00:11:06,702 --> 00:11:08,506
- I miss her so much.
- 96
- 00:11:10,071 --> 00:11:12,326
- Not a day goes by when I don't think of her.
- 97
- 00:11:16,236 --> 00:11:19,476
- Would you ever consider trying
- to contact your mother?
- 98
- 00:11:21,558 --> 00:11:23,788
- Maybe she wouldn't want me to.
- 99
- 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,994
- Given I was the one who killed her.
- 100
- 00:11:29,304 --> 00:11:31,979
- She died just days after I was born.
- 101
- 00:11:35,046 --> 00:11:36,901
- Oh, Mary.
- 102
- 00:11:58,028 --> 00:12:00,182
- I love it in Scotland.
- 103
- 00:12:00,262 --> 00:12:02,953
- Nothing is as I expected it would be.
- 104
- 00:12:03,434 --> 00:12:06,839
- You've only been here
- a few weeks. Give it time.
- 105
- 00:12:07,913 --> 00:12:11,509
- In London it's not often we have
- occasion to picnic by the river.
- 106
- 00:12:11,589 --> 00:12:14,475
- Your mistake is waiting for an occasion.
- 107
- 00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:33,274
- I looked upon the rotting sea
- and drew my eyes away
- 108
- 00:12:33,354 --> 00:12:36,819
- I looked upon the rotting deck
- And there the dead men lay
- 109
- 00:12:36,899 --> 00:12:39,656
- I looked to Heaven and tried to pray
- 110
- 00:12:40,236 --> 00:12:42,743
- But before a prayer had gushed
- A wicked whisper came...
- 111
- 00:12:42,823 --> 00:12:45,412
- Come in. Come in. You must be freezing.
- 112
- 00:12:45,492 --> 00:12:47,805
- If I could just give you
- a couple of my essays.
- 113
- 00:12:48,970 --> 00:12:50,942
- My contribution
- to this evening's entertainment.
- 114
- 00:12:51,022 --> 00:12:52,644
- - How are you?
- - Good. How's the party?
- 115
- 00:12:52,724 --> 00:12:55,787
- Isabel... who is that?
- 116
- 00:12:56,812 --> 00:12:59,683
- Oh, that's Shelley.
- 117
- 00:13:00,106 --> 00:13:02,845
- Beautiful, isn't he? He's a radical poet.
- 118
- 00:13:02,925 --> 00:13:06,248
- He thinks poetry should reform society,
- and so he's often in trouble.
- 119
- 00:13:06,328 --> 00:13:08,535
- Sounds like quite a catch.
- 120
- 00:13:08,615 --> 00:13:12,197
- - Let me introduce you to some friends.
- - There's someone I'd like you to meet.
- 121
- 00:13:12,347 --> 00:13:14,174
- Good luck.
- 122
- 00:13:14,254 --> 00:13:18,545
- - Percy, may I present Mary. Mary...
- - Baxter! Come and join us!
- 123
- 00:13:18,625 --> 00:13:23,090
- Oh, it's Coleridge. Mary, could you
- put these nameplates out, please?
- 124
- 00:13:26,674 --> 00:13:28,530
- Let me get those for you.
- 125
- 00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:32,890
- I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- 126
- 00:13:34,750 --> 00:13:37,238
- I am Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin.
- 127
- 00:13:37,318 --> 00:13:41,725
- Of course. Baxter mentioned
- you'd be joining the family here.
- 128
- 00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:46,390
- I am a great admirer
- of both your parents' work.
- 129
- 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:55,707
- I hope I can entrust you
- to this task, Mr. Shelley.
- 130
- 00:13:55,787 --> 00:14:00,086
- - Or will you try to incite me to revolution?
- - My reputation precedes me.
- 131
- 00:14:00,667 --> 00:14:03,840
- Won't you welcome a change
- from the deafening quiet?
- 132
- 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,975
- I've grown accustomed to it.
- 133
- 00:14:06,657 --> 00:14:10,105
- In London I spend most
- of my time in my father's bookshop.
- 134
- 00:14:10,686 --> 00:14:14,266
- So the deafening quiet is not
- as dramatic as you may think.
- 135
- 00:14:14,346 --> 00:14:18,289
- Baxter does his best for these gatherings.
- Any lover of poetry will surely find a...
- 136
- 00:14:18,369 --> 00:14:21,623
- ...great thrill in the work
- that is being presented here.
- 137
- 00:14:23,815 --> 00:14:26,588
- So surely you are a writer yourself?
- 138
- 00:14:28,704 --> 00:14:31,959
- Not really. Nothing substantial.
- 139
- 00:14:32,499 --> 00:14:34,787
- I hope to, someday.
- 140
- 00:14:35,367 --> 00:14:39,210
- And what, may I ask, would you constitute
- as "substantial" in your eyes?
- 141
- 00:14:40,857 --> 00:14:43,855
- Anything that curdles the blood...
- 142
- 00:14:43,935 --> 00:14:46,918
- ...and quickens the beatings of the heart.
- 143
- 00:14:48,298 --> 00:14:50,687
- Ah, perfect!
- 144
- 00:14:50,767 --> 00:14:54,165
- Now may I steal Mr. Shelley away?
- 145
- 00:14:54,496 --> 00:14:57,977
- - We would love a poem, sir.
- - Certainly, sir.
- 146
- 00:14:59,742 --> 00:15:04,566
- Without an audience,
- ideas remain mere words on a page.
- 147
- 00:15:08,969 --> 00:15:12,526
- - Mr. Shelley, your essay.
- - Oh, I have no need for those.
- 148
- 00:15:12,606 --> 00:15:17,279
- Thank you. I shall trust
- in the spark of new found inspiration.
- 149
- 00:15:30,365 --> 00:15:34,330
- Oh, not the visioned poet in his dreams...
- 150
- 00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:38,544
- ...when silvery clouds float
- through the wildered brain...
- 151
- 00:15:38,624 --> 00:15:43,781
- ...when every sight of lovely,
- wild and grand...
- 152
- 00:15:43,861 --> 00:15:45,492
- ...astonishes...
- 153
- 00:15:45,572 --> 00:15:47,510
- ...enraptures...
- 154
- 00:15:47,590 --> 00:15:49,202
- ...elevates...
- 155
- 00:15:50,217 --> 00:15:51,732
- ...so bright...
- 156
- 00:15:52,012 --> 00:15:55,092
- ...so fair, so wild a shape...
- 157
- 00:15:55,172 --> 00:15:59,321
- ...hath ever yet beheld as that
- which reined the coursers of the air...
- 158
- 00:15:59,401 --> 00:16:02,693
- ...and poured the magic of her gaze...
- 159
- 00:16:02,773 --> 00:16:05,068
- ...upon the maiden's sleep.
- 160
- 00:16:34,805 --> 00:16:38,394
- Alone, alone, all alone...
- 161
- 00:16:38,475 --> 00:16:41,138
- ...upon the wide, wide sea...
- 162
- 00:16:41,218 --> 00:16:43,489
- ...and God will not take pity...
- 163
- 00:16:43,569 --> 00:16:46,005
- ...on my soul in agony.
- 164
- 00:16:47,943 --> 00:16:50,991
- - This weather.
- - Ah, stop complaining.
- 165
- 00:16:51,071 --> 00:16:54,104
- - It's Scotland, what do you expect?
- - So I say to you...
- 166
- 00:16:54,184 --> 00:16:57,288
- ...if all things come from God
- and we all come from God...
- 167
- 00:16:57,368 --> 00:16:59,432
- ...are we not part of God?
- 168
- 00:16:59,512 --> 00:17:02,653
- When we think, do we not behold
- the very thoughts of God?
- 169
- 00:17:02,733 --> 00:17:06,005
- - Can't say I feel like much of a god.
- - Your body is tired, Baxter...
- 170
- 00:17:06,085 --> 00:17:08,558
- ...but your spirit, it longs to soar.
- 171
- 00:17:10,924 --> 00:17:13,071
- What of you, Miss Godwin?
- 172
- 00:17:13,151 --> 00:17:15,449
- Do you think you are of God...
- 173
- 00:17:15,529 --> 00:17:17,783
- ...like the great poet Coleridge?
- 174
- 00:17:19,999 --> 00:17:21,746
- I'll admit...
- 175
- 00:17:21,826 --> 00:17:26,396
- ...I thought Coleridge was much more
- captivating when I was a child.
- 176
- 00:17:26,477 --> 00:17:27,461
- There you go.
- 177
- 00:17:27,541 --> 00:17:29,650
- I'm surprised you can remember back that far.
- 178
- 00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:31,490
- Behold the majesty of God's creation...
- 179
- 00:17:31,570 --> 00:17:33,909
- Well, just how old are you then...
- 180
- 00:17:33,989 --> 00:17:36,076
- ...dear ancient one?
- 181
- 00:17:36,156 --> 00:17:38,238
- Old enough to know why you are asking.
- 182
- 00:17:38,318 --> 00:17:39,615
- Ah.
- 183
- 00:17:39,695 --> 00:17:41,725
- It's inspirational, don't you think?
- 184
- 00:17:41,805 --> 00:17:43,877
- - I'm 16.
- - Hmm.
- 185
- 00:17:43,957 --> 00:17:47,032
- - How about you?
- - 21.
- 186
- 00:17:48,253 --> 00:17:50,526
- A wise old man indeed.
- 187
- 00:17:55,744 --> 00:17:59,142
- As mountain springs under the morning sun...
- 188
- 00:17:59,222 --> 00:18:01,477
- ...we shall become the same...
- 189
- 00:18:01,557 --> 00:18:04,830
- ...we shall be one spirit
- within two frames...
- 190
- 00:18:05,411 --> 00:18:08,293
- ...oh, wherefore two?
- 191
- 00:18:08,373 --> 00:18:11,404
- One passion in twin hearts
- which grows and grew...
- 192
- 00:18:11,485 --> 00:18:14,299
- ...till like two meteors
- of expanding flame...
- 193
- 00:18:14,379 --> 00:18:18,103
- ...those spheres instinct with it
- become the same...
- 194
- 00:18:18,183 --> 00:18:22,650
- ...touch, mingle
- are transfigured ever still...
- 195
- 00:18:22,730 --> 00:18:26,344
- ...burning, yet inconsumable...
- 196
- 00:18:33,699 --> 00:18:35,244
- Mary...
- 197
- 00:18:36,341 --> 00:18:39,147
- ...I'm afraid I have some
- terrible news from London.
- 198
- 00:18:40,806 --> 00:18:42,827
- It's your sister Claire.
- 199
- 00:18:47,102 --> 00:18:48,719
- May I ask you...
- 200
- 00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:51,678
- ...could you tell Mr. Shelley I said goodbye?
- 201
- 00:18:53,351 --> 00:18:54,794
- Of course.
- 202
- 00:19:13,889 --> 00:19:16,161
- Was Scotland everything I said it would be?
- 203
- 00:19:16,241 --> 00:19:18,013
- Were you happy?
- 204
- 00:19:18,093 --> 00:19:19,906
- I was.
- 205
- 00:19:22,888 --> 00:19:25,954
- You will live again, Mary.
- You have your mother's spirit.
- 206
- 00:19:26,034 --> 00:19:28,094
- You won't be confined for long.
- 207
- 00:19:38,028 --> 00:19:40,722
- She's been like this for weeks.
- 208
- 00:19:56,522 --> 00:19:57,969
- Claire?
- 209
- 00:19:59,217 --> 00:20:01,831
- Thank God! You're finally back!
- 210
- 00:20:07,057 --> 00:20:09,005
- So you aren't dying?
- 211
- 00:20:10,128 --> 00:20:12,224
- Only from boredom.
- 212
- 00:20:14,149 --> 00:20:16,187
- You mean you weren't sick at all?
- 213
- 00:20:18,003 --> 00:20:21,032
- Well... maybe a little bit.
- 214
- 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,297
- Poor captive bird!
- 215
- 00:20:34,377 --> 00:20:37,417
- Who, from thy narrow cage
- pourest such music...
- 216
- 00:20:37,497 --> 00:20:41,897
- ...that it might assuage the rugged hearts
- of those who prisoned thee...
- 217
- 00:20:42,678 --> 00:20:45,641
- ...were they not deaf towards sweet melody...
- 218
- 00:20:45,721 --> 00:20:48,118
- ...this song shall be thy rose...
- 219
- 00:20:48,198 --> 00:20:53,083
- ...its petals pale are dead, indeed...
- 220
- 00:20:53,163 --> 00:20:55,775
- ...my adored Nightingale!
- 221
- 00:21:02,731 --> 00:21:07,573
- It seems my mother's latest reverie
- is a young protégé for your father.
- 222
- 00:21:07,653 --> 00:21:11,316
- We are all to be on our best behavior
- at dinner tonight to win him over.
- 223
- 00:21:11,396 --> 00:21:14,010
- He's wealthy, evidently.
- 224
- 00:21:14,485 --> 00:21:18,758
- She's a woman of indomitable hope,
- I can't deny her that.
- 225
- 00:21:27,656 --> 00:21:32,738
- Mr. Percy Shelley,
- may I present Mrs. Godwin, my wife.
- 226
- 00:21:33,479 --> 00:21:38,071
- And our children, William, Claire and Mary.
- 227
- 00:21:38,692 --> 00:21:40,279
- Delighted.
- 228
- 00:21:42,297 --> 00:21:44,535
- My husband tells me
- you're a poet, Mr. Shelley.
- 229
- 00:21:44,615 --> 00:21:47,012
- He speaks very highly of your work.
- 230
- 00:21:47,092 --> 00:21:50,365
- Well, I am humbled
- by his praise, Mrs. Godwin.
- 231
- 00:21:50,446 --> 00:21:53,709
- I must admit, though,
- my work is not yet widely known.
- 232
- 00:21:53,789 --> 00:21:57,716
- Although I have just completed my
- second volume which awaits publication.
- 233
- 00:21:57,796 --> 00:22:00,486
- Very impressive achievement
- for such a young man.
- 234
- 00:22:00,566 --> 00:22:02,494
- Any achievement of mine
- falls within the shadow...
- 235
- 00:22:02,584 --> 00:22:05,105
- - ...of your influence, Mr. Godwin.
- - You flatter me.
- 236
- 00:22:05,185 --> 00:22:09,017
- Hope you will consider my proposal
- to take me on as your protégé.
- 237
- 00:22:09,097 --> 00:22:12,017
- I have a considerable allowance
- at my disposal...
- 238
- 00:22:12,558 --> 00:22:16,607
- ...and would gladly reimburse you
- for any time you might spare.
- 239
- 00:22:17,187 --> 00:22:20,821
- Well, I feel duty bound to...
- 240
- 00:22:20,901 --> 00:22:24,506
- ...foster such ability.
- 241
- 00:22:25,756 --> 00:22:27,479
- Well, then, that's settled.
- 242
- 00:22:29,409 --> 00:22:33,508
- How fortunate we are to be
- in the presence of two great minds.
- 243
- 00:22:34,890 --> 00:22:37,413
- You must see our bookshop, Mr. Shelley.
- 244
- 00:22:37,493 --> 00:22:40,774
- I have a copy of "The Iliad"
- in the original Greek.
- 245
- 00:22:41,505 --> 00:22:42,676
- Hmm.
- 246
- 00:22:42,756 --> 00:22:45,787
- Perhaps Mary will show it
- to you after dinner.
- 247
- 00:22:49,104 --> 00:22:50,992
- How are you here?
- 248
- 00:22:51,682 --> 00:22:56,217
- Does it seem so strange that I would seek out
- the tutelage of the great William Godwin?
- 249
- 00:22:58,889 --> 00:23:01,736
- Clearly I'm not only here to see your father.
- 250
- 00:23:02,833 --> 00:23:04,863
- Then why are you here?
- 251
- 00:23:06,987 --> 00:23:10,411
- To once again feel
- the curdling of my blood...
- 252
- 00:23:10,491 --> 00:23:13,895
- ...and the quickening
- of the beatings of my heart.
- 253
- 00:23:17,808 --> 00:23:19,220
- Mary?
- 254
- 00:23:20,125 --> 00:23:22,023
- Mr. Shelley?
- 255
- 00:23:23,003 --> 00:23:25,467
- Your father would like to see Mr. Shelley.
- 256
- 00:23:27,883 --> 00:23:29,680
- Thank you.
- 257
- 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:35,419
- I will be with him momentarily.
- I'm quite enjoying the, uh, collection.
- 258
- 00:23:36,710 --> 00:23:38,565
- So I see.
- 259
- 00:23:42,733 --> 00:23:47,982
- As I was saying, both your parents
- are a great source of inspiration to me.
- 260
- 00:23:48,078 --> 00:23:50,502
- My mother died when I was ten days old.
- 261
- 00:23:51,066 --> 00:23:53,162
- I'm sorry, I had no idea.
- 262
- 00:23:54,159 --> 00:23:55,749
- Don't be sorry.
- 263
- 00:23:55,829 --> 00:23:58,050
- I love to talk about her.
- 264
- 00:23:58,248 --> 00:24:01,177
- Even if I never truly knew her.
- 265
- 00:24:01,917 --> 00:24:05,591
- All of the contradictions she embodied.
- 266
- 00:24:05,671 --> 00:24:07,894
- All anyone ever talks about...
- 267
- 00:24:08,133 --> 00:24:10,681
- ...now is how she wanted to go off...
- 268
- 00:24:10,761 --> 00:24:14,017
- ...and live with a married man and his wife...
- 269
- 00:24:14,097 --> 00:24:16,318
- ...in a ménage àtrois.
- 270
- 00:24:16,475 --> 00:24:18,404
- And what do you think about...
- 271
- 00:24:18,852 --> 00:24:20,273
- ...all that?
- 272
- 00:24:20,353 --> 00:24:22,575
- I have no problem with it.
- 273
- 00:24:23,732 --> 00:24:26,579
- People should live and love as they wish.
- 274
- 00:24:27,778 --> 00:24:29,950
- But one thing I've never understood is...
- 275
- 00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:32,743
- ...why did two radicals
- such as your parents...
- 276
- 00:24:32,823 --> 00:24:34,413
- ...succumb to marriage?
- 277
- 00:24:34,493 --> 00:24:37,173
- To legitimize me.
- 278
- 00:24:40,956 --> 00:24:42,569
- Meet me...
- 279
- 00:24:42,876 --> 00:24:44,388
- ...tomorrow.
- 280
- 00:24:44,903 --> 00:24:46,774
- Just tell me where.
- 281
- 00:24:50,008 --> 00:24:52,313
- There is a place I go alone.
- 282
- 00:24:53,887 --> 00:24:55,976
- I'm not sure what you'll make of it.
- 283
- 00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,155
- My sanctuary of sorts.
- 284
- 00:25:02,978 --> 00:25:05,990
- Then it will be my sanctuary, too.
- 285
- 00:25:19,244 --> 00:25:21,425
- I come here whenever I can.
- 286
- 00:25:22,623 --> 00:25:25,136
- Just to feel her embrace.
- 287
- 00:25:27,878 --> 00:25:29,843
- My father taught me to read...
- 288
- 00:25:29,923 --> 00:25:32,095
- ...by tracing the letters of her name.
- 289
- 00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:39,401
- I don't know what it is I'm waiting for here.
- 290
- 00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:44,405
- Maybe you're just waiting
- for someone to reach out and...
- 291
- 00:25:45,188 --> 00:25:47,657
- ...return your embrace.
- 292
- 00:25:56,199 --> 00:25:58,463
- I thought we would never escape the rain.
- 293
- 00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:02,958
- I think I'd rather suffer the deluge outside.
- 294
- 00:26:03,038 --> 00:26:04,835
- If God is everywhere...
- 295
- 00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:07,673
- ...then why must Man erect temples to Him?
- 296
- 00:26:07,753 --> 00:26:09,465
- Because it is your imagination...
- 297
- 00:26:09,545 --> 00:26:11,510
- ...that is the instrument of moral good...
- 298
- 00:26:11,590 --> 00:26:14,270
- ...not these four walls.
- 299
- 00:26:17,345 --> 00:26:20,060
- Let's see if the Great Creator
- strikes us down.
- 300
- 00:26:24,184 --> 00:26:28,819
- You shall fear the Lord your God.
- 301
- 00:26:28,899 --> 00:26:30,986
- Thrones, altars...
- 302
- 00:26:31,066 --> 00:26:32,698
- ...judgement seats, and prisons...
- 303
- 00:26:32,778 --> 00:26:37,077
- ...they are all part of one
- gigantic, despotic system...
- 304
- 00:26:37,157 --> 00:26:41,756
- ...designed to crush the soul of Man.
- 305
- 00:26:42,746 --> 00:26:46,090
- Their empty covenant has no power over us.
- 306
- 00:26:48,834 --> 00:26:50,881
- I fear not of God...
- 307
- 00:26:50,961 --> 00:26:52,633
- ...or His henchmen on Earth.
- 308
- 00:26:52,713 --> 00:26:54,561
- Hmm.
- 309
- 00:26:57,886 --> 00:26:59,224
- Someone's here.
- 310
- 00:27:01,306 --> 00:27:03,018
- Percy.
- 311
- 00:27:03,098 --> 00:27:04,653
- Percy.
- 312
- 00:27:06,061 --> 00:27:08,933
- So the Judgment Day is upon us already.
- 313
- 00:27:10,315 --> 00:27:11,714
- Hello?
- 314
- 00:27:14,695 --> 00:27:16,623
- Is anyone there?
- 315
- 00:27:52,232 --> 00:27:55,739
- Oh, Mr. Shelley, it is a real book.
- 316
- 00:27:55,819 --> 00:27:59,993
- Your name looks so good
- in that gold typeface.
- 317
- 00:28:00,073 --> 00:28:01,161
- I'm sure it will be more popular...
- 318
- 00:28:01,241 --> 00:28:04,170
- ...than your treatise
- on the virtues of atheism.
- 319
- 00:28:04,995 --> 00:28:07,167
- Ghost stories and romance
- novels might sell, my dear...
- 320
- 00:28:07,247 --> 00:28:10,021
- ...but it's books that challenge
- the common doctrine and superstition...
- 321
- 00:28:10,101 --> 00:28:12,297
- ...that will truly endure.
- 322
- 00:28:12,377 --> 00:28:14,990
- We rely on brave works like this...
- 323
- 00:28:15,070 --> 00:28:18,028
- ...to push the world
- out of its misery and delusion.
- 324
- 00:28:18,108 --> 00:28:19,954
- Well done, sir.
- 325
- 00:28:20,531 --> 00:28:22,355
- I hope you like it, Miss Godwin.
- 326
- 00:28:24,204 --> 00:28:26,084
- I'm sure I will.
- 327
- 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,895
- Read it when you're alone.
- 328
- 00:28:50,706 --> 00:28:52,603
- Oh, give it to me!
- 329
- 00:28:52,683 --> 00:28:55,772
- Give it to me. Please, Mary. Mary.
- 330
- 00:28:57,155 --> 00:28:59,970
- "The sunlight clasp the Earth...
- 331
- 00:29:00,050 --> 00:29:02,473
- ...and the moonbeams kiss the sea...
- 332
- 00:29:02,553 --> 00:29:04,665
- ...what are all these kissings worth..."
- 333
- 00:29:04,745 --> 00:29:06,758
- "If thou kiss not me?"
- 334
- 00:29:07,941 --> 00:29:09,724
- Miss Godwin?
- 335
- 00:29:10,143 --> 00:29:11,690
- Yes?
- 336
- 00:29:13,063 --> 00:29:16,537
- I am Mrs. Shelley. Harriet Shelley.
- 337
- 00:29:17,017 --> 00:29:20,449
- And this is Ianthe, our daughter.
- 338
- 00:29:26,452 --> 00:29:29,550
- How can I help you, Mrs. Shelley?
- 339
- 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,018
- I am searching for my husband.
- 340
- 00:29:35,068 --> 00:29:36,931
- He's not here.
- 341
- 00:29:37,277 --> 00:29:39,185
- My father works alone today.
- 342
- 00:29:40,265 --> 00:29:42,738
- I cannot help you any further.
- 343
- 00:29:42,818 --> 00:29:44,671
- Miss Godwin!
- 344
- 00:29:47,247 --> 00:29:49,125
- Stay away from Percy.
- 345
- 00:29:51,767 --> 00:29:56,527
- I have not seen him in weeks
- but I have heard rumors.
- 346
- 00:29:56,607 --> 00:30:00,881
- Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
- would be impervious to gossip?
- 347
- 00:30:00,961 --> 00:30:04,984
- Evidently you are a stranger
- to scandal, Miss Godwin.
- 348
- 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,640
- Did you know I ran away
- with Percy when I was a girl?
- 349
- 00:30:11,997 --> 00:30:15,261
- Idealism and love give us courage.
- 350
- 00:30:16,442 --> 00:30:20,692
- But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice
- required to love a man like Percy.
- 351
- 00:30:23,842 --> 00:30:26,661
- Your husband is my father's student.
- 352
- 00:30:27,471 --> 00:30:29,560
- Nothing more.
- 353
- 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,569
- If I see Mr. Shelley,
- I will let him know you are looking for him.
- 354
- 00:30:34,309 --> 00:30:36,157
- Goodbye, Mrs. Shelley.
- 355
- 00:30:49,793 --> 00:30:51,448
- Claire?
- 356
- 00:31:05,966 --> 00:31:08,239
- Your wife is very pretty, Mr. Shelley.
- 357
- 00:31:08,504 --> 00:31:10,750
- Oh, I didn't know you were married.
- 358
- 00:31:12,307 --> 00:31:13,845
- Yes.
- 359
- 00:31:15,994 --> 00:31:19,031
- Yes, I've been married for five years now.
- 360
- 00:31:20,315 --> 00:31:22,143
- Well, well.
- 361
- 00:31:23,233 --> 00:31:25,156
- We look forward to meeting Mrs. Shelley.
- 362
- 00:31:26,196 --> 00:31:28,759
- Perhaps she would like to join us
- for dinner one evening?
- 363
- 00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:30,986
- Your offer is most kind, Mrs. Godwin.
- 364
- 00:31:31,066 --> 00:31:35,484
- However, Mrs. Shelley and I
- are man and wife in name... only.
- 365
- 00:31:35,564 --> 00:31:39,950
- I continue to provide for Harriet and my
- daughter Ianthe financially but that is all.
- 366
- 00:31:40,751 --> 00:31:42,833
- It is an intolerable tyranny...
- 367
- 00:31:43,213 --> 00:31:46,512
- ...to bind husband
- and wife to cohabitation...
- 368
- 00:31:46,592 --> 00:31:49,315
- ...after the decay of their affection.
- 369
- 00:31:51,472 --> 00:31:53,024
- Yeah.
- 370
- 00:31:53,699 --> 00:31:56,763
- I remember saying something
- like that when I was young.
- 371
- 00:32:04,535 --> 00:32:06,657
- How could you do such a thing?
- 372
- 00:32:06,737 --> 00:32:09,384
- - What did I do?
- - You told her.
- 373
- 00:32:09,965 --> 00:32:11,768
- I had to.
- 374
- 00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:28,358
- How could you not speak
- of Harriet and Ianthe?
- 375
- 00:32:28,439 --> 00:32:33,058
- My marriage was a mistake. I believed
- that I'd found in Harriet a kindred spirit.
- 376
- 00:32:33,138 --> 00:32:36,694
- But time revealed only an empty, heartless
- cynicism that consumed the both of us...
- 377
- 00:32:36,774 --> 00:32:39,379
- ...in a spiral of hate and anguish.
- 378
- 00:32:40,145 --> 00:32:42,125
- But when I met you...
- 379
- 00:32:42,205 --> 00:32:45,706
- ...for the first time since
- my marriage, I felt alive.
- 380
- 00:32:45,786 --> 00:32:49,675
- And had you known I was married, propriety
- would have gotten the better of you.
- 381
- 00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:51,830
- Propriety has never been a concern of mine.
- 382
- 00:32:51,910 --> 00:32:56,381
- I promise you it can be very easy to say that,
- but it can be very different to live it.
- 383
- 00:32:56,462 --> 00:32:59,480
- - Which is what I challenge you to do now.
- - You challenge me to what?
- 384
- 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,628
- To do what your heart is telling you to do...
- 385
- 00:33:03,408 --> 00:33:05,390
- ...and to come away with me.
- 386
- 00:33:05,471 --> 00:33:07,298
- And let us both find...
- 387
- 00:33:08,849 --> 00:33:12,030
- ...new air to fill our lungs.
- 388
- 00:33:15,055 --> 00:33:18,105
- A new sun to warm our faces.
- 389
- 00:33:18,684 --> 00:33:23,751
- See a new life that is actually
- worth the living...
- 390
- 00:33:24,898 --> 00:33:26,461
- ...together.
- 391
- 00:33:37,828 --> 00:33:42,117
- The air in this house was
- stifling long before Shelley...
- 392
- 00:33:42,197 --> 00:33:46,035
- ...but the fact that he comes here
- every day makes it even less bearable.
- 393
- 00:33:48,321 --> 00:33:50,577
- Feels like I'm suffocating.
- 394
- 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,363
- I just want to get away.
- 395
- 00:33:56,937 --> 00:33:59,185
- At least you went to Scotland.
- 396
- 00:33:59,708 --> 00:34:01,546
- I've never been anywhere.
- 397
- 00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:07,468
- Next time we'll go somewhere together.
- 398
- 00:34:09,801 --> 00:34:11,880
- We'll set off around the world...
- 399
- 00:34:12,461 --> 00:34:14,298
- ...just you and me.
- 400
- 00:34:15,532 --> 00:34:17,829
- And we'll meet amazing people...
- 401
- 00:34:18,510 --> 00:34:20,715
- ...and go to wonderful places.
- 402
- 00:34:21,730 --> 00:34:23,502
- And none of this...
- 403
- 00:34:23,582 --> 00:34:26,437
- ...or any of these people,
- will matter at all.
- 404
- 00:34:28,311 --> 00:34:30,382
- They won't mean a thing.
- 405
- 00:34:32,115 --> 00:34:33,986
- I promise.
- 406
- 00:34:34,633 --> 00:34:37,246
- I can't imagine anything more wonderful.
- 407
- 00:34:46,144 --> 00:34:48,084
- Done so soon, Mr. Shelley?
- 408
- 00:34:48,164 --> 00:34:51,670
- I thought you and Mr. Godwin would
- be working through the afternoon.
- 409
- 00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:55,248
- I'm afraid I don't feel up to much
- of anything today, Mrs. Godwin.
- 410
- 00:35:06,550 --> 00:35:10,620
- Mr. Shelley seems to be suffering
- from some sort of emotional anguish.
- 411
- 00:35:12,756 --> 00:35:15,303
- Perhaps he was disappointed to find that...
- 412
- 00:35:15,383 --> 00:35:20,032
- ...you do not cultivate the same public feats
- of wantonness as your dear departed mother.
- 413
- 00:35:21,473 --> 00:35:24,633
- I would ask that you not
- speak ill of my mother.
- 414
- 00:35:24,713 --> 00:35:26,539
- Oh, but of course.
- 415
- 00:35:27,003 --> 00:35:29,735
- How dare anyone utter one word out of turn...
- 416
- 00:35:29,815 --> 00:35:32,629
- ...about a deceased person
- of such eminent merit?
- 417
- 00:35:33,694 --> 00:35:36,975
- At least you have not inherited
- that strange deficit of hers.
- 418
- 00:35:37,055 --> 00:35:40,928
- That foolish impulsiveness which mistook
- wretchedness with emancipation.
- 419
- 00:35:42,202 --> 00:35:46,084
- I have inherited nothing
- but a fire in my soul...
- 420
- 00:35:46,164 --> 00:35:50,338
- ...and I will no longer allow you,
- or anyone else, to contain it.
- 421
- 00:35:50,419 --> 00:35:53,472
- Are you really involved
- with that whoremonger?
- 422
- 00:35:53,552 --> 00:35:55,777
- I hope those rumors prove to be false.
- 423
- 00:35:56,257 --> 00:35:58,805
- Just when we have found
- an avenue for our salvation...
- 424
- 00:35:58,885 --> 00:36:02,065
- ...you go and turn our fortunes
- into yet another scandal.
- 425
- 00:36:02,145 --> 00:36:05,729
- Do you believe I care at all
- for my reputation?
- 426
- 00:36:05,809 --> 00:36:08,723
- Or yours? I fear nothing...
- 427
- 00:36:08,803 --> 00:36:13,636
- ...but letting your meaningless words
- scare me away from my desires.
- 428
- 00:36:36,006 --> 00:36:38,762
- The sunlight clasps the Earth
- 429
- 00:36:38,842 --> 00:36:41,915
- And the moonbeams kiss the sea
- 430
- 00:36:42,596 --> 00:36:45,143
- What are all these kissings worth
- 431
- 00:36:45,223 --> 00:36:48,095
- If thou kiss not me?
- 432
- 00:37:01,448 --> 00:37:02,935
- Mary.
- 433
- 00:37:19,883 --> 00:37:22,200
- What do you mean? But you're already married.
- 434
- 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,234
- We love each other.
- We don't need to be married.
- 435
- 00:37:26,314 --> 00:37:28,454
- I told you your warped ideals
- would come back to haunt us.
- 436
- 00:37:28,534 --> 00:37:29,928
- Mrs. Godwin, please.
- 437
- 00:37:30,008 --> 00:37:33,884
- - We are only living by your beliefs.
- - What do you know of living your beliefs?
- 438
- 00:37:33,964 --> 00:37:36,227
- You had no problem with my mother
- wanting to live out of wedlock.
- 439
- 00:37:36,307 --> 00:37:40,147
- Do you really think you can
- withstand the consequences of this?
- 440
- 00:37:41,196 --> 00:37:44,601
- Your mother was tortured by her impulses.
- 441
- 00:37:46,242 --> 00:37:49,244
- The very passions she thought were
- holding her together were working...
- 442
- 00:37:49,324 --> 00:37:52,636
- ...just as diligently to tear her apart.
- 443
- 00:37:53,366 --> 00:37:55,606
- Don't let them get the better of you, Mary.
- 444
- 00:37:56,236 --> 00:37:58,957
- And you, forget whatever fantasy
- you've woven with my daughter.
- 445
- 00:37:59,037 --> 00:38:03,443
- Are you really suggesting I could only be
- with your daughter if we were married?
- 446
- 00:38:04,052 --> 00:38:08,705
- How dare you? Come into my house,
- you accept my hospitality...
- 447
- 00:38:08,785 --> 00:38:11,522
- - ...and seduce my 16 year old daughter!
- - Is it not you accepting my money?
- 448
- 00:38:11,602 --> 00:38:13,423
- Go back to your wife!
- 449
- 00:38:13,937 --> 00:38:16,184
- Never set foot in this house again.
- 450
- 00:38:16,565 --> 00:38:19,201
- My love, I will return for you.
- 451
- 00:38:22,087 --> 00:38:25,527
- If you ever see Mr. Shelley again...
- 452
- 00:38:26,007 --> 00:38:29,030
- ...prepare to lose
- the love of a father, forever.
- 453
- 00:38:48,054 --> 00:38:49,340
- Mary!
- 454
- 00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,788
- Mary!
- 455
- 00:38:55,145 --> 00:38:59,595
- Don't look back, Mary.
- Remember, once you are gone...
- 456
- 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,669
- ...none of this, or any
- of these people, will matter at all.
- 457
- 00:39:06,415 --> 00:39:09,261
- But please, Mary, take me with you.
- 458
- 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,040
- You promised next time we would go together.
- 459
- 00:39:35,631 --> 00:39:37,854
- I hope I haven't kept you waiting long!
- 460
- 00:39:48,765 --> 00:39:51,980
- - I guess you come as a pair.
- - I couldn't leave her.
- 461
- 00:39:52,938 --> 00:39:55,166
- - Come!
- - Where are we going?
- 462
- 00:39:55,246 --> 00:39:57,107
- To St. Pancras.
- 463
- 00:40:12,247 --> 00:40:14,052
- It's down here.
- 464
- 00:40:20,163 --> 00:40:21,275
- Thank you.
- 465
- 00:40:22,774 --> 00:40:23,919
- Oh!
- 466
- 00:40:26,361 --> 00:40:29,050
- It is temporary, of course.
- 467
- 00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:31,536
- Well, where will I sleep?
- 468
- 00:40:32,968 --> 00:40:35,121
- Try through there.
- 469
- 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:43,030
- I am going to find us a house...
- 470
- 00:40:43,820 --> 00:40:46,668
- ...and I intend it to be perfect.
- 471
- 00:40:47,716 --> 00:40:49,621
- It already is perfect.
- 472
- 00:40:50,786 --> 00:40:52,682
- I have you.
- 473
- 00:40:53,710 --> 00:40:56,218
- Wherever we're together is where I belong.
- 474
- 00:41:08,003 --> 00:41:09,849
- Are you sure, Mary?
- 475
- 00:41:10,989 --> 00:41:13,252
- Only if you are ready, my love.
- 476
- 00:41:41,347 --> 00:41:43,634
- I'm free to write what I please.
- 477
- 00:41:43,714 --> 00:41:46,903
- Like a torrent of light
- poured into a dark world.
- 478
- 00:41:46,983 --> 00:41:50,716
- All around me I see bliss,
- 'cause I now know what it is to love...
- 479
- 00:41:50,796 --> 00:41:53,427
- - Its very essence is liberty.
- - ...and be loved.
- 480
- 00:41:53,507 --> 00:41:57,197
- It is comparable neither
- with obedience, jealousy nor fear.
- 481
- 00:41:57,277 --> 00:42:01,101
- It is there, most pure,
- perfect and unlimited.
- 482
- 00:42:01,982 --> 00:42:04,480
- ...close round the dying girl.
- 483
- 00:42:06,837 --> 00:42:10,502
- Out and in they hurry and spin...
- 484
- 00:42:11,182 --> 00:42:14,681
- ...and dance, through the dance.
- 485
- 00:42:14,761 --> 00:42:18,419
- They dance through the weary Whirl.
- 486
- 00:42:18,819 --> 00:42:22,453
- Patience, patience,
- though my heart is breaking.
- 487
- 00:42:22,533 --> 00:42:25,158
- God, there is no question-making...
- 488
- 00:42:25,238 --> 00:42:29,195
- ...of thy body thou art quit and free.
- 489
- 00:42:29,275 --> 00:42:33,015
- Heaven keep thy soul eternally!
- 490
- 00:42:38,752 --> 00:42:41,549
- I trust you've enjoyed
- the last of the claret?
- 491
- 00:42:45,659 --> 00:42:49,532
- Would it be unwise to ask how it went today?
- 492
- 00:42:51,898 --> 00:42:53,970
- My publishers are fools.
- 493
- 00:42:56,177 --> 00:42:58,233
- Don't let them upset you.
- 494
- 00:42:58,814 --> 00:43:00,185
- They're not worth it.
- 495
- 00:43:00,265 --> 00:43:02,787
- But their advance is worth everything, Mary.
- 496
- 00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:09,756
- My father has cut me off.
- 497
- 00:43:10,651 --> 00:43:15,133
- He says I've disgraced his name
- because of the scandal that surrounds us.
- 498
- 00:43:18,183 --> 00:43:19,607
- So now you know.
- 499
- 00:43:39,596 --> 00:43:42,574
- This one. Is that of any interest?
- 500
- 00:43:43,459 --> 00:43:44,821
- No?
- 501
- 00:43:44,901 --> 00:43:47,799
- Not interested in those.
- What else do you have?
- 502
- 00:43:49,272 --> 00:43:51,862
- Well, 'Iliad' by Homer in the original Greek.
- 503
- 00:43:51,942 --> 00:43:53,588
- Father?
- 504
- 00:43:54,686 --> 00:43:56,491
- It's been weeks.
- 505
- 00:44:01,342 --> 00:44:03,148
- You're selling it?
- 506
- 00:44:03,228 --> 00:44:04,660
- Yes.
- 507
- 00:44:04,740 --> 00:44:08,349
- There comes a time when we all have
- to let go of the things we hold dear.
- 508
- 00:44:18,935 --> 00:44:22,534
- It's your decision, Mary,
- and you must live with it.
- 509
- 00:44:22,614 --> 00:44:25,620
- He claims to love humanity
- yet forsakes his child.
- 510
- 00:44:28,979 --> 00:44:31,784
- I wish nothing more
- than that you should thrive.
- 511
- 00:44:33,475 --> 00:44:36,138
- But, look at you.
- 512
- 00:44:39,756 --> 00:44:42,845
- So, do you want to sell it?
- 513
- 00:44:48,023 --> 00:44:49,569
- No.
- 514
- 00:45:03,021 --> 00:45:06,327
- - Erasmus Darwin once wrote...
- - Who is Erasmus Darwin?
- 515
- 00:45:06,407 --> 00:45:09,373
- A poet and a physician. He once wrote
- that a man who has never tried...
- 516
- 00:45:09,454 --> 00:45:12,066
- ...an experiment in his life is a fool.
- 517
- 00:45:20,355 --> 00:45:24,104
- - ...on my sister's cat.
- - Oh, Shelley, you didn't!
- 518
- 00:45:24,184 --> 00:45:27,860
- No, I didn't. I have
- the claw marks to prove it.
- 519
- 00:45:29,531 --> 00:45:31,336
- What's going on?
- 520
- 00:45:31,417 --> 00:45:35,536
- I remembered a debt unpaid.
- I know how much you love science, Mary.
- 521
- 00:45:35,616 --> 00:45:38,464
- Watch this. Whoa!
- 522
- 00:45:42,611 --> 00:45:44,607
- This is incredible.
- 523
- 00:45:45,889 --> 00:45:48,520
- And this is for you.
- 524
- 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,787
- Shelley.
- 525
- 00:45:53,146 --> 00:45:55,736
- You shouldn't have spent money on dresses.
- 526
- 00:45:55,816 --> 00:45:58,291
- Don't be silly, Mary, it's beautiful.
- 527
- 00:45:58,702 --> 00:46:00,165
- That is not all.
- 528
- 00:46:00,245 --> 00:46:04,217
- Tomorrow we move
- to our new house in Bloomsbury.
- 529
- 00:46:05,689 --> 00:46:08,682
- - The servants will meet us there.
- - Servants!
- 530
- 00:46:08,762 --> 00:46:13,378
- Because how can we write if we are forced
- to tend to such domestic mundanities...
- 531
- 00:46:13,459 --> 00:46:15,935
- ...as the shopping and the cleaning.
- 532
- 00:46:16,545 --> 00:46:19,626
- You make everything seem possible.
- 533
- 00:46:28,223 --> 00:46:32,834
- - It's a step up from St. Pancras.
- - Welcome home, Mary.
- 534
- 00:46:32,914 --> 00:46:34,483
- Stop.
- 535
- 00:46:36,364 --> 00:46:38,194
- Wait for me!
- 536
- 00:47:01,873 --> 00:47:04,328
- A day devoted to love and idleness...
- 537
- 00:47:04,885 --> 00:47:07,103
- ...but despite my earthly paradise...
- 538
- 00:47:07,810 --> 00:47:10,360
- ...I feel a frustration born of guilt.
- 539
- 00:47:10,441 --> 00:47:14,464
- A constant whisper that I am
- no closer to achieving my dreams.
- 540
- 00:47:16,396 --> 00:47:19,952
- Excuse me, are you the poet Shelley?
- 541
- 00:47:20,976 --> 00:47:23,520
- Yes. Yes, I am.
- 542
- 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,241
- - Would you sign my pocketbook?
- - Of course.
- 543
- 00:47:26,532 --> 00:47:28,374
- Our friends will be terribly jealous.
- 544
- 00:47:29,901 --> 00:47:31,489
- There.
- 545
- 00:47:32,688 --> 00:47:34,576
- Well, have a good day.
- 546
- 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:39,121
- My love, I have news.
- 547
- 00:47:42,072 --> 00:47:43,749
- Oh, my Mary.
- 548
- 00:47:43,829 --> 00:47:46,474
- Hey, a baby.
- 549
- 00:47:47,878 --> 00:47:49,332
- What news!
- 550
- 00:47:49,413 --> 00:47:51,884
- - You're happy?
- - Of course I'm happy.
- 551
- 00:47:52,558 --> 00:47:54,454
- Why? Aren't you?
- 552
- 00:47:56,186 --> 00:47:58,052
- I've never had a mother.
- 553
- 00:47:58,641 --> 00:48:02,512
- - What if I fail?
- - You think we can only learn by example?
- 554
- 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,679
- What of pure instinct?
- 555
- 00:48:05,759 --> 00:48:07,809
- Of the inherent good that lies in all of us?
- 556
- 00:48:07,889 --> 00:48:10,941
- And that, my darling, you have in abundance.
- 557
- 00:48:11,301 --> 00:48:14,425
- - As will our little girl.
- - You think it's a girl?
- 558
- 00:48:14,505 --> 00:48:17,359
- She will be our very own prodigy.
- 559
- 00:48:17,933 --> 00:48:19,871
- Ianthe, come here.
- 560
- 00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:22,874
- Good girl.
- 561
- 00:48:35,509 --> 00:48:37,313
- Come, we have to go.
- 562
- 00:48:37,811 --> 00:48:39,356
- Now.
- 563
- 00:48:50,381 --> 00:48:53,113
- Take me with you, please, take me.
- 564
- 00:48:53,193 --> 00:48:55,999
- Please, Mary, take me with you.
- 565
- 00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,357
- Take me with you.
- 566
- 00:49:15,974 --> 00:49:17,754
- There is someone in my room.
- 567
- 00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:19,922
- Someone? Did you see him?
- 568
- 00:49:21,079 --> 00:49:23,284
- No. They...
- 569
- 00:49:27,210 --> 00:49:30,451
- - No one, nothing.
- - It's one of your nightmares, Claire.
- 570
- 00:49:30,921 --> 00:49:34,830
- - I will sit with her.
- - No, no, I will take her to bed.
- 571
- 00:49:34,910 --> 00:49:37,451
- You need to rest. Think of the baby.
- 572
- 00:49:37,531 --> 00:49:38,665
- Claire, come on.
- 573
- 00:50:15,075 --> 00:50:18,039
- She sleeps. Finally.
- 574
- 00:50:19,705 --> 00:50:21,568
- And you should, too.
- 575
- 00:50:26,862 --> 00:50:28,758
- I love you, Mary.
- 576
- 00:50:35,596 --> 00:50:37,476
- Allow me to do it.
- 577
- 00:50:38,056 --> 00:50:40,125
- Absolutely no clue.
- 578
- 00:50:40,506 --> 00:50:42,599
- I can't tell if you're
- telling the truth or not.
- 579
- 00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:46,076
- - I am telling the truth.
- - Who's paying for it? I'm paying for it?
- 580
- 00:50:46,156 --> 00:50:49,329
- You're gonna ruin me,
- Claire Clairmont. You're gonna ruin me.
- 581
- 00:50:49,409 --> 00:50:52,969
- - What's all this for?
- - Oh, there you are. Guess what?
- 582
- 00:50:53,049 --> 00:50:56,127
- Tonight we are having a dinner party.
- 583
- 00:50:59,653 --> 00:51:02,959
- Come here. Don't we deserve a little fun?
- 584
- 00:51:03,039 --> 00:51:05,834
- My dear, dear friend
- Thomas Hogg is in town...
- 585
- 00:51:05,914 --> 00:51:10,484
- ...and has just published his first book.
- So I thought we would throw him a party...
- 586
- 00:51:10,564 --> 00:51:13,637
- Ma'am, how many guests
- are we expecting this evening?
- 587
- 00:51:14,217 --> 00:51:16,139
- Maybe 10.
- 588
- 00:51:16,219 --> 00:51:18,020
- 10 or...
- 589
- 00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:20,534
- ...12? 12. 12.
- 590
- 00:51:20,614 --> 00:51:22,904
- Did the publisher's advance come in?
- 591
- 00:51:26,162 --> 00:51:28,334
- I borrowed against my father's estate.
- 592
- 00:51:28,415 --> 00:51:31,891
- Percy, there's no way
- we can afford to pay it back.
- 593
- 00:51:31,971 --> 00:51:35,066
- Come on. Come here. Come.
- 594
- 00:51:49,978 --> 00:51:53,192
- I'm sorry it's not much
- of a celebration, Mr. Hogg.
- 595
- 00:51:54,958 --> 00:51:57,881
- It appears we're even more
- scandalous than we realized.
- 596
- 00:51:57,961 --> 00:51:59,478
- Don't trouble yourself, Mary.
- 597
- 00:51:59,558 --> 00:52:02,494
- Shelley and I have a long history
- of courting trouble.
- 598
- 00:52:02,574 --> 00:52:06,940
- We began writing a novel together back at
- Oxford but publishers deemed it too subversive.
- 599
- 00:52:07,020 --> 00:52:10,051
- We had more success with our treatise
- which we wrote anonymously...
- 600
- 00:52:10,131 --> 00:52:13,665
- - '...The Necessity of Atheism'.
- - Because it was published?
- 601
- 00:52:13,745 --> 00:52:16,138
- Because it resulted
- in our expulsion from Oxford.
- 602
- 00:52:17,914 --> 00:52:20,696
- I'm beginning to suspect you have
- a penchant for being anonymous.
- 603
- 00:52:20,776 --> 00:52:25,059
- What's the point of being published if you
- don't have your name on it? Why bother?
- 604
- 00:52:25,139 --> 00:52:27,376
- I assume you also write?
- 605
- 00:52:28,391 --> 00:52:30,461
- It's not anything like my parents.
- 606
- 00:52:30,541 --> 00:52:34,191
- Soon Mary will produce a work
- that will surpass all of us.
- 607
- 00:52:35,832 --> 00:52:40,073
- How about you, Miss Clairmont? Do you write
- or are there other tricks you perform?
- 608
- 00:52:40,153 --> 00:52:42,623
- I have my own talents.
- 609
- 00:52:42,703 --> 00:52:47,530
- - Claire is an accomplished singer.
- - So she says. I'm yet to hear it.
- 610
- 00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:50,608
- Will you sing for us?
- 611
- 00:52:51,415 --> 00:52:53,770
- I will sing, and...
- 612
- 00:52:53,850 --> 00:52:56,640
- ...if you happen to overhear...
- 613
- 00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,200
- ...I suppose, it can't be helped.
- 614
- 00:53:00,181 --> 00:53:03,254
- She has spirit this one,
- I can see why you keep her.
- 615
- 00:53:04,486 --> 00:53:09,064
- # A sweet scented courtier
- did give me a kiss #
- 616
- 00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:13,615
- # And promised me rightly
- that I would be his #
- 617
- 00:53:13,695 --> 00:53:17,100
- # But I'll not believe him
- for it is too true #
- 618
- 00:53:17,180 --> 00:53:21,247
- # Courtiers promise much more than they do #
- 619
- 00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:26,186
- # My thing is my own
- that I'll keep it so still #
- 620
- 00:53:26,266 --> 00:53:30,297
- # Other young lassies can do what they will #
- 621
- 00:53:35,175 --> 00:53:38,674
- Ma'am, Mr. Hogg... is here to see you.
- 622
- 00:53:38,754 --> 00:53:40,509
- Mr. Hogg?
- 623
- 00:53:40,589 --> 00:53:42,660
- Thank you, Eliza.
- 624
- 00:53:44,345 --> 00:53:46,614
- Shelley will be sorry to have missed you.
- 625
- 00:53:47,050 --> 00:53:50,333
- - Would you care to wait?
- - I should like that very much, Mary.
- 626
- 00:53:50,414 --> 00:53:53,162
- - Are you hungry?
- - I'm fine, thank you.
- 627
- 00:53:54,144 --> 00:53:55,807
- You're writing?
- 628
- 00:53:55,896 --> 00:53:59,778
- Ledgers. But it might as well be Latin.
- 629
- 00:53:59,858 --> 00:54:04,124
- - Are you schooled in Latin?
- - Yes, my father insisted upon it.
- 630
- 00:54:04,204 --> 00:54:05,859
- Why don't you sit down?
- 631
- 00:54:05,939 --> 00:54:09,103
- I fear my Latin is not
- what it was when I was at Oxford.
- 632
- 00:54:10,852 --> 00:54:13,841
- May I... practice upon you, Mary?
- 633
- 00:54:14,565 --> 00:54:17,036
- I'm not sure I'd be of much use to you.
- 634
- 00:54:18,209 --> 00:54:21,024
- My mind is all over the place these days.
- 635
- 00:54:23,339 --> 00:54:26,546
- Perhaps you should practice upon me.
- 636
- 00:54:32,624 --> 00:54:35,814
- I cannot believe you fired
- the servant for that, Shelley.
- 637
- 00:54:35,894 --> 00:54:37,978
- Who do you think you are?
- 638
- 00:54:45,921 --> 00:54:47,467
- Mary?
- 639
- 00:54:48,932 --> 00:54:51,178
- What's wrong? Is it the baby?
- 640
- 00:54:51,827 --> 00:54:54,947
- Claire, could you please leave us?
- 641
- 00:55:04,072 --> 00:55:06,118
- Hogg came to the house.
- 642
- 00:55:07,976 --> 00:55:09,789
- And then...
- 643
- 00:55:11,580 --> 00:55:13,280
- ...he made an advance...
- 644
- 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,464
- - ...but I didn't, I...
- - So you did not comply?
- 645
- 00:55:16,418 --> 00:55:19,722
- Of course not. I would never...
- 646
- 00:55:20,872 --> 00:55:23,704
- Mary. Hey.
- 647
- 00:55:24,284 --> 00:55:27,687
- I have no quarrel with you
- and Thomas becoming lovers.
- 648
- 00:55:29,155 --> 00:55:31,227
- Isn't this what we believe in?
- 649
- 00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:34,105
- Unconventional approaches to living?
- 650
- 00:55:34,911 --> 00:55:38,026
- After all, why should we not have such
- an arrangement? I do not own you.
- 651
- 00:55:38,106 --> 00:55:40,382
- You are free to be with whomever you please.
- 652
- 00:55:41,777 --> 00:55:44,331
- Oh, but I don't want to be with anyone else.
- 653
- 00:55:45,939 --> 00:55:48,787
- Don't you believe that love is free?
- 654
- 00:55:49,017 --> 00:55:50,643
- Yes.
- 655
- 00:55:50,723 --> 00:55:53,667
- - Free to be with one person...
- - That is poor logic, Mary.
- 656
- 00:55:55,566 --> 00:55:57,693
- Your choice means nothing to me.
- 657
- 00:55:57,773 --> 00:56:01,182
- What disappoints me is that you
- wouldn't even consider it.
- 658
- 00:56:03,331 --> 00:56:05,512
- Leads me to question how much
- you value your beliefs...
- 659
- 00:56:05,592 --> 00:56:08,624
- ...when you will not even make
- an attempt to live them.
- 660
- 00:56:10,305 --> 00:56:13,685
- I believe, with all my heart...
- 661
- 00:56:13,765 --> 00:56:16,532
- ...there are all sorts of ways of living.
- 662
- 00:56:16,612 --> 00:56:20,435
- And I will fight for
- anyone's right to live accordingly.
- 663
- 00:56:21,958 --> 00:56:26,065
- But my truth is that there
- is no one else for me.
- 664
- 00:56:33,495 --> 00:56:36,092
- Do you wish to be with someone else?
- 665
- 00:56:37,248 --> 00:56:41,858
- I merely suggest that you do not offer me
- the same freedoms I offer you.
- 666
- 00:56:44,656 --> 00:56:46,508
- You're a hypocrite.
- 667
- 00:56:46,896 --> 00:56:48,761
- Like your father.
- 668
- 00:56:50,596 --> 00:56:52,484
- And you...
- 669
- 00:56:52,564 --> 00:56:56,168
- ...are nothing close to the man
- that I thought you were.
- 670
- 00:57:07,763 --> 00:57:10,296
- Wanting for my 'happily ever after'...
- 671
- 00:57:10,376 --> 00:57:12,546
- ...I lowered my defenses...
- 672
- 00:57:12,626 --> 00:57:14,864
- ...forgetting the first lesson
- I was taught...
- 673
- 00:57:15,395 --> 00:57:18,251
- ...that I was brought into
- this world to be abandoned.
- 674
- 00:57:18,331 --> 00:57:20,562
- That I am irrevocably alone.
- 675
- 00:57:39,310 --> 00:57:40,840
- Mary.
- 676
- 00:57:48,862 --> 00:57:50,908
- Are you not cold, Mary?
- 677
- 00:57:52,574 --> 00:57:55,024
- My hypocrisy keeps me warm.
- 678
- 00:57:55,285 --> 00:57:57,782
- As does my cloak of disappointment.
- 679
- 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,103
- I'm going to tell Hogg
- not to call here again.
- 680
- 00:58:02,183 --> 00:58:04,472
- I already told him with my fist.
- 681
- 00:58:06,254 --> 00:58:08,676
- You have to understand, Mary, that...
- 682
- 00:58:10,801 --> 00:58:12,805
- ...I have always lived this way...
- 683
- 00:58:13,733 --> 00:58:15,689
- ...to a fault.
- 684
- 00:58:18,383 --> 00:58:22,899
- And I thought this was something
- we both believed in.
- 685
- 00:58:26,274 --> 00:58:28,354
- An ideal we shared.
- 686
- 00:58:29,970 --> 00:58:34,222
- But had I truly considered it, and I let
- myself fully understand what I was doing...
- 687
- 00:58:34,302 --> 00:58:36,784
- ...I would never let anything...
- 688
- 00:58:38,979 --> 00:58:41,010
- ...anything come between us.
- 689
- 00:58:46,587 --> 00:58:48,390
- I have a surprise for you.
- 690
- 00:58:50,657 --> 00:58:52,331
- We're going out.
- 691
- 00:58:57,981 --> 00:58:59,877
- Well, what are you waiting for?
- 692
- 00:59:07,273 --> 00:59:09,214
- Phantasmagoria.
- 693
- 00:59:09,294 --> 00:59:12,298
- Starring Claire Clairmont, yours truly.
- 694
- 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,503
- It's Lord Byron.
- 695
- 00:59:18,343 --> 00:59:20,222
- Let us go and talk to him.
- 696
- 00:59:22,405 --> 00:59:24,427
- Lord Byron!
- 697
- 00:59:26,877 --> 00:59:32,235
- My Lord... may I introduce to you
- the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley...
- 698
- 00:59:32,315 --> 00:59:34,710
- ...and a great admirer of your work.
- 699
- 00:59:35,210 --> 00:59:37,081
- I know Mr. Shelley.
- 700
- 00:59:37,165 --> 00:59:39,025
- I enjoyed "Queen Mab".
- 701
- 00:59:39,646 --> 00:59:42,504
- - Credit to you.
- - Thank you.
- 702
- 00:59:49,450 --> 00:59:53,940
- And now our final act,
- Mr. Brycison the Galvanizer.
- 703
- 00:59:55,208 --> 00:59:59,412
- Who amongst you has ever wondered
- if the dead could return to life?
- 704
- 01:00:00,201 --> 01:00:02,468
- Thanks to scientific discovery...
- 705
- 01:00:02,548 --> 01:00:06,836
- ...mankind is on the cusp
- of conquering mortality.
- 706
- 01:00:11,004 --> 01:00:14,686
- Using this frog and an electrical current...
- 707
- 01:00:19,830 --> 01:00:22,934
- ...I will demonstrate how muscular
- stimulation is possible...
- 708
- 01:00:23,014 --> 01:00:25,293
- ...via electrical means.
- 709
- 01:00:26,538 --> 01:00:30,314
- Ladies and gentlemen,
- may I introduce you to the process of...
- 710
- 01:00:31,165 --> 01:00:32,668
- ...galvanism.
- 711
- 01:01:35,714 --> 01:01:39,974
- Is that really possible?
- That the dead could come back to life?
- 712
- 01:01:40,223 --> 01:01:42,298
- There is every possibility.
- 713
- 01:01:43,054 --> 01:01:45,301
- That has brought you back to life.
- 714
- 01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:55,523
- Oh, Clara, you are so beautiful...
- 715
- 01:01:56,124 --> 01:02:00,177
- ...and tiny. Did you ever see
- such tiny hands?
- 716
- 01:02:01,356 --> 01:02:02,998
- She's so beautiful.
- 717
- 01:02:03,078 --> 01:02:05,555
- Almost as beautiful as you, my love.
- 718
- 01:02:06,845 --> 01:02:08,925
- Mary, can I get you anything?
- 719
- 01:02:09,531 --> 01:02:11,402
- I have all I need.
- 720
- 01:02:13,054 --> 01:02:15,339
- And what a trio we will be.
- 721
- 01:02:17,122 --> 01:02:19,026
- Yes, she agrees.
- 722
- 01:02:20,050 --> 01:02:23,139
- You agree? We're gonna be a trio.
- 723
- 01:02:23,512 --> 01:02:27,370
- You're gonna be our special
- little prodigy. Yeah.
- 724
- 01:02:53,942 --> 01:02:57,265
- I can scarcely believe that
- one small being can be responsible...
- 725
- 01:02:57,345 --> 01:02:59,158
- ...for such joy.
- 726
- 01:02:59,681 --> 01:03:03,872
- Is all that is truly required
- is that we live well, be happy...
- 727
- 01:03:03,952 --> 01:03:05,798
- ...and make others so?
- 728
- 01:03:07,347 --> 01:03:10,953
- # Over the hills and far... #
- 729
- 01:03:14,329 --> 01:03:16,217
- She's sleeping.
- 730
- 01:03:38,854 --> 01:03:40,700
- We must leave at once.
- 731
- 01:03:40,922 --> 01:03:42,369
- What do you mean?
- 732
- 01:03:43,692 --> 01:03:45,447
- What has happened?
- 733
- 01:03:46,412 --> 01:03:48,609
- Creditors are coming.
- 734
- 01:03:48,689 --> 01:03:52,103
- - Percy. Clara's not well.
- - Mary, we do not have time to discuss this.
- 735
- 01:03:52,183 --> 01:03:54,565
- It's raining outside. We can't take her.
- 736
- 01:03:54,645 --> 01:03:56,867
- The doctor said she must keep warm.
- 737
- 01:03:56,947 --> 01:03:59,495
- We have no choice. Claire, are you ready?
- 738
- 01:03:59,875 --> 01:04:01,413
- Percy.
- 739
- 01:04:01,793 --> 01:04:04,015
- Eliza, do not tell them anything.
- 740
- 01:04:04,596 --> 01:04:06,109
- Claire.
- 741
- 01:04:07,658 --> 01:04:10,121
- Mary. Come.
- 742
- 01:04:11,970 --> 01:04:13,591
- Please.
- 743
- 01:04:19,144 --> 01:04:21,182
- We must get back to St. Pancras.
- 744
- 01:04:22,122 --> 01:04:23,960
- They won't find us there.
- 745
- 01:04:26,802 --> 01:04:27,947
- Mary!
- 746
- 01:04:29,921 --> 01:04:31,758
- Mary, please.
- 747
- 01:04:50,859 --> 01:04:52,939
- She needs shelter now!
- 748
- 01:05:15,584 --> 01:05:17,088
- Mary...
- 749
- 01:05:18,604 --> 01:05:21,701
- ...it breaks my heart to see you like this.
- 750
- 01:05:22,616 --> 01:05:24,511
- The doctor told you...
- 751
- 01:05:24,985 --> 01:05:27,598
- ...Clara was never for this world.
- 752
- 01:05:30,131 --> 01:05:32,011
- What about your books?
- 753
- 01:05:32,943 --> 01:05:36,160
- I mean, surely there is something
- you would like to read?
- 754
- 01:05:37,113 --> 01:05:38,885
- The books?
- 755
- 01:05:39,833 --> 01:05:43,089
- The books survived
- the creditors, didn't they?
- 756
- 01:05:45,121 --> 01:05:47,636
- I miss her, too, Mary.
- 757
- 01:05:47,716 --> 01:05:49,228
- Desperately.
- 758
- 01:05:50,168 --> 01:05:53,812
- Desperately.
- But I don't want to lose you as well.
- 759
- 01:06:01,146 --> 01:06:03,175
- Leave me alone.
- 760
- 01:06:44,548 --> 01:06:47,704
- Rose leaves, when the rose is dead
- 761
- 01:06:48,485 --> 01:06:51,733
- Are heaped for the beloved's bed
- 762
- 01:06:52,523 --> 01:06:54,667
- And so thy thoughts
- 763
- 01:06:55,237 --> 01:06:57,481
- When thou art gone
- 764
- 01:06:57,561 --> 01:07:01,618
- Love itself shall slumber on
- 765
- 01:07:07,588 --> 01:07:12,783
- # Tommy was a piper's son #
- 766
- 01:07:12,863 --> 01:07:18,251
- # He learned to play when he was young #
- 767
- 01:07:18,331 --> 01:07:20,847
- # The only tune #
- 768
- 01:07:20,927 --> 01:07:24,331
- # That he could play #
- 769
- 01:08:31,169 --> 01:08:33,857
- You'll come to me in dreams, my love.
- 770
- 01:08:34,381 --> 01:08:36,595
- I will not ask a dearer bliss.
- 771
- 01:08:43,056 --> 01:08:45,267
- I dreamed of her last night.
- 772
- 01:08:46,377 --> 01:08:48,900
- That we lit a fire in the fireplace...
- 773
- 01:08:48,980 --> 01:08:52,407
- ...and the fire's warmth
- nursed her back to life.
- 774
- 01:08:54,761 --> 01:08:58,693
- My love, I haven't seen you
- smile at me in weeks.
- 775
- 01:08:59,891 --> 01:09:01,746
- Oh, Claire.
- 776
- 01:09:21,679 --> 01:09:26,256
- - He invited you to Geneva?
- - No, Mary. Lord Byron has invited us.
- 777
- 01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,858
- - Us?
- - You, me and Shelley. All of us.
- 778
- 01:09:31,589 --> 01:09:34,981
- Do you think you are the only one
- who can attract a poet?
- 779
- 01:09:36,377 --> 01:09:38,349
- No, Claire.
- 780
- 01:09:38,430 --> 01:09:41,827
- In fact I am very aware of your abilities.
- 781
- 01:09:45,444 --> 01:09:48,211
- But... we have to go.
- 782
- 01:09:49,807 --> 01:09:51,636
- I am pregnant.
- 783
- 01:09:55,654 --> 01:09:57,467
- Who's the father?
- 784
- 01:09:59,692 --> 01:10:03,648
- Mary. Mary, it is Byron's, of course.
- 785
- 01:10:06,592 --> 01:10:09,940
- I've been meeting him in secret
- for quite some time now.
- 786
- 01:10:10,020 --> 01:10:13,095
- Don't you see? Geneva will give me
- the chance to talk to him...
- 787
- 01:10:13,175 --> 01:10:15,011
- ...away from the crowds of London.
- 788
- 01:10:15,091 --> 01:10:19,106
- I mean, you, of all people, should know
- that this city loves a scandal.
- 789
- 01:10:20,572 --> 01:10:24,070
- Shelley, we've been invited
- to Geneva by Lord Byron.
- 790
- 01:10:25,385 --> 01:10:28,581
- Lord Byron? Oh, my word!
- 791
- 01:10:28,921 --> 01:10:30,977
- This is an unmissable opportunity.
- 792
- 01:10:31,057 --> 01:10:34,239
- This could help us immensely. Um...
- 793
- 01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:37,174
- - Well, he said...
- - I'm not ready for this.
- 794
- 01:10:40,517 --> 01:10:41,779
- Mary.
- 795
- 01:10:41,859 --> 01:10:46,082
- Percy, I don't think
- I'm ready for this. Please.
- 796
- 01:10:46,973 --> 01:10:49,987
- - Not yet.
- - Oh, Mary, I miss her too.
- 797
- 01:10:52,076 --> 01:10:54,325
- Oh, I wish I could have saved her.
- 798
- 01:10:57,133 --> 01:10:59,614
- I'm not asking you to let go of her, Mary.
- 799
- 01:11:00,603 --> 01:11:03,417
- I'm just asking you
- to raise above your grief.
- 800
- 01:11:04,156 --> 01:11:08,003
- To raise her spirit
- to the great heights she deserves.
- 801
- 01:11:56,684 --> 01:11:58,480
- Thank you.
- 802
- 01:12:01,338 --> 01:12:03,861
- I was surprised to hear
- you were staying here?
- 803
- 01:12:03,941 --> 01:12:05,777
- Most tourists come to gawk at the place.
- 804
- 01:12:05,857 --> 01:12:08,965
- We've become accustomed to prying
- eyes ourselves. I'm sure we'll manage.
- 805
- 01:12:09,045 --> 01:12:10,563
- Mr. Shelley!
- 806
- 01:12:26,306 --> 01:12:30,260
- It is a pleasure to make
- your acquaintance once more.
- 807
- 01:12:32,513 --> 01:12:35,986
- I received Miss Clairmont's letter yesterday
- alerting me of this impending arrival.
- 808
- 01:12:37,167 --> 01:12:39,560
- My Lord, it is an honor.
- 809
- 01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,989
- And may I introduce Miss
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin?
- 810
- 01:12:46,718 --> 01:12:48,596
- Miss Godwin.
- 811
- 01:12:49,655 --> 01:12:53,870
- Forgive me but there is a smile
- hidden inside of you, I can see it.
- 812
- 01:12:54,334 --> 01:12:58,349
- And it is beautiful and brutal.
- 813
- 01:12:59,230 --> 01:13:02,863
- And I hope that before long
- I can coax it outside of you.
- 814
- 01:13:04,344 --> 01:13:06,187
- And there she is.
- 815
- 01:13:08,398 --> 01:13:11,337
- - My Lord.
- - Claire.
- 816
- 01:13:18,208 --> 01:13:21,739
- Claire, I must remember next time
- that to mention travel plans to you...
- 817
- 01:13:21,819 --> 01:13:23,850
- ...is tantamount to an invitation.
- 818
- 01:13:24,631 --> 01:13:28,228
- My Lord, I apologize.
- I fear there's been some confusion.
- 819
- 01:13:28,308 --> 01:13:31,241
- If our visit is an imposition,
- we will seek lodging elsewhere.
- 820
- 01:13:31,321 --> 01:13:33,644
- Please, don't concern yourselves.
- You must stay here as my guest.
- 821
- 01:13:33,724 --> 01:13:36,078
- Things have been getting boring round here
- and I will be grateful for the distraction.
- 822
- 01:13:36,158 --> 01:13:40,442
- In fact there is the Duke
- of Dulldom himself, Doctor Polidori.
- 823
- 01:13:41,222 --> 01:13:43,092
- Come with me.
- 824
- 01:13:48,864 --> 01:13:52,217
- Doctor Polidori, Miss Godwin.
- She doesn't smile.
- 825
- 01:13:53,043 --> 01:13:54,854
- Charmed, Miss Godwin.
- 826
- 01:14:04,086 --> 01:14:06,158
- Don't embarrass the servants.
- 827
- 01:14:06,238 --> 01:14:09,621
- Are you a Doctor of Science, Doctor Polidori?
- 828
- 01:14:09,701 --> 01:14:13,099
- - I'm sorry, but I'm a physician.*
- - Science fascinates Mary.
- 829
- 01:14:13,179 --> 01:14:17,294
- Why is being a physician disappointing? You
- save lives. You bring babies into the world.
- 830
- 01:14:17,374 --> 01:14:19,861
- You help poets with their sleeping disorders.
- 831
- 01:14:19,941 --> 01:14:22,124
- Doctor Polidori wrote
- his thesis on the subject.
- 832
- 01:14:22,204 --> 01:14:25,560
- And, conveniently, I've become quite
- the somnambulist in his presence.
- 833
- 01:14:26,709 --> 01:14:29,632
- Well, I hope we can liven
- things up for you a little, My Lord.
- 834
- 01:14:29,712 --> 01:14:31,811
- I'm sure you will try, Miss Clairmont.
- 835
- 01:14:34,134 --> 01:14:36,313
- Would you like to join me
- in the parlor, Mr. Shelley?
- 836
- 01:14:36,393 --> 01:14:38,222
- Of course.
- 837
- 01:14:42,317 --> 01:14:46,791
- Perhaps you'll be more comfortable conversing
- with Claire and Doctor Polidori, my love.
- 838
- 01:14:52,903 --> 01:14:54,313
- Byron...
- 839
- 01:15:08,444 --> 01:15:11,273
- I must say, the decor is interesting.
- 840
- 01:15:11,754 --> 01:15:16,092
- Byron likes to record his 'grand ideas'
- on slips of paper...
- 841
- 01:15:16,172 --> 01:15:19,649
- ...and tack them up on the wall.
- You should see the one in the parlor.
- 842
- 01:15:19,729 --> 01:15:24,129
- Gets littered with paper when we have
- company, or when he's stimulated.
- 843
- 01:15:38,469 --> 01:15:41,979
- This is poetry, my brother.
- 844
- 01:15:42,059 --> 01:15:46,484
- 'On Death' by the incomparable yours truly.
- 845
- 01:15:46,564 --> 01:15:49,243
- Third stanza! Summon the muse.
- 846
- 01:15:54,089 --> 01:15:57,995
- The world is the nurse of all we know
- 847
- 01:15:58,075 --> 01:16:01,323
- This world the mother of all we feel
- 848
- 01:16:01,403 --> 01:16:04,770
- And the coming of death is a fearful blow
- 849
- 01:16:04,850 --> 01:16:08,474
- To the brain unencompassed
- with nerves of steel
- 850
- 01:16:08,554 --> 01:16:12,510
- When all we know or feel or see
- 851
- 01:16:12,590 --> 01:16:15,870
- Shall pass like an unreal mystery!
- 852
- 01:16:17,979 --> 01:16:20,068
- I found this article...
- 853
- 01:16:20,148 --> 01:16:22,151
- ...and recalled your interest in science.
- 854
- 01:16:28,990 --> 01:16:30,956
- Is this possible?
- 855
- 01:16:31,036 --> 01:16:32,826
- Reanimation?
- 856
- 01:16:34,195 --> 01:16:35,849
- That is the claim.
- 857
- 01:16:35,929 --> 01:16:39,333
- Applying the principle of galvanism
- to human corpses.
- 858
- 01:16:40,652 --> 01:16:43,230
- Every lady in the land knows this.
- 859
- 01:16:44,422 --> 01:16:47,144
- She walks in beauty like the night
- 860
- 01:16:47,224 --> 01:16:50,243
- Of cloudless climes and starry skies
- 861
- 01:16:50,323 --> 01:16:53,367
- And all that's bright of dark and light
- 862
- 01:16:53,448 --> 01:16:54,770
- - What?
- - Bright! Bright, bright...
- 863
- 01:16:54,850 --> 01:16:57,714
- All that's best of dark and bright
- meet in the aspect of her eyes
- 864
- 01:16:57,794 --> 01:17:01,809
- That's mellow to thy tender light
- which heaven to gaudy day deny
- 865
- 01:17:01,889 --> 01:17:04,283
- I was sorry to hear about your baby.
- 866
- 01:17:08,689 --> 01:17:10,525
- Her name was Clara.
- 867
- 01:17:11,583 --> 01:17:13,436
- I don't mean to upset you.
- 868
- 01:17:14,285 --> 01:17:16,024
- No.
- 869
- 01:17:16,104 --> 01:17:18,126
- No, you haven't at all.
- 870
- 01:17:20,007 --> 01:17:22,301
- I thank you for speaking of her.
- 871
- 01:17:26,657 --> 01:17:29,745
- It's an unspeakable cruelty
- for a woman to lose a child.
- 872
- 01:17:30,085 --> 01:17:32,772
- I've seen it more times
- than I care to remember.
- 873
- 01:17:35,031 --> 01:17:37,044
- I'm in awe of you, Miss Godwin...
- 874
- 01:17:37,525 --> 01:17:39,551
- ...and your strength to survive it.
- 875
- 01:17:42,143 --> 01:17:43,636
- Drink!
- 876
- 01:17:44,290 --> 01:17:46,652
- Drink. Drink.
- 877
- 01:17:54,334 --> 01:17:57,196
- Why? Why not? Why would I not be sure?
- 878
- 01:18:10,876 --> 01:18:14,104
- It's called 'The Nightmare...
- 879
- 01:18:14,184 --> 01:18:16,358
- ...The Curse Of The Incubus'.
- 880
- 01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:21,591
- The Angel fallen from grace
- because of insatiable lust.
- 881
- 01:18:23,905 --> 01:18:25,983
- You know the painter, don't you?
- 882
- 01:18:27,349 --> 01:18:29,228
- Henry Fuseli.
- 883
- 01:18:31,021 --> 01:18:33,314
- He was my mother's first love.
- 884
- 01:18:33,924 --> 01:18:37,088
- She tried to kill herself
- with an overdose of laudanum...
- 885
- 01:18:37,168 --> 01:18:38,888
- ...when he left her for another woman.
- 886
- 01:18:41,768 --> 01:18:45,456
- I've never reconciled how someone
- as strong as my mother...
- 887
- 01:18:45,536 --> 01:18:48,029
- ...was so vulnerable when it came to love.
- 888
- 01:18:49,230 --> 01:18:52,659
- Love will find its way through paths...
- 889
- 01:18:52,739 --> 01:18:55,882
- ...where wolves would fear to prey.
- 890
- 01:18:55,962 --> 01:18:59,336
- But if she wasn't impervious
- to the pain of heartbreak...
- 891
- 01:19:00,116 --> 01:19:02,603
- ...what hope is there for the rest of us?
- 892
- 01:19:05,237 --> 01:19:09,645
- The great art of life is sensation.
- 893
- 01:19:10,518 --> 01:19:13,979
- To feel that you exist, even in pain.
- 894
- 01:19:14,059 --> 01:19:16,126
- I mean, would you not die for love?
- 895
- 01:19:16,323 --> 01:19:21,209
- After all, what is life
- if it does not have love?
- 896
- 01:19:22,589 --> 01:19:25,175
- Nothing, according to you poets.
- 897
- 01:19:27,409 --> 01:19:29,288
- You are...
- 898
- 01:19:32,148 --> 01:19:34,220
- I've always believed that a woman...
- 899
- 01:19:34,300 --> 01:19:37,815
- ...should be intelligent enough to
- understand what I'm saying but...
- 900
- 01:19:37,895 --> 01:19:43,046
- ...not intelligent enough to be able
- to form ideas or opinions of her own.
- 901
- 01:19:43,576 --> 01:19:46,843
- You, Miss Godwin,
- have the chance to prove me wrong.
- 902
- 01:19:51,126 --> 01:19:52,969
- Play us a tune, Shelley.
- 903
- 01:20:14,165 --> 01:20:18,844
- Oh, this infernal copying. I'm bored of it.
- 904
- 01:20:19,646 --> 01:20:23,451
- I can't transcribe another
- word of these poems.
- 905
- 01:20:30,072 --> 01:20:32,788
- It's been raining like this for weeks.
- 906
- 01:20:32,868 --> 01:20:36,967
- We're all going to go insane. Can't
- anyone think of ways to pass the time?
- 907
- 01:20:37,047 --> 01:20:39,595
- - Mary, please.
- - No.
- 908
- 01:20:39,675 --> 01:20:41,317
- She's right.
- 909
- 01:20:46,113 --> 01:20:47,650
- Listen.
- 910
- 01:20:51,678 --> 01:20:54,557
- There are witches in the wind.
- 911
- 01:20:56,977 --> 01:20:58,803
- I have an idea.
- 912
- 01:21:02,213 --> 01:21:05,926
- We are, each one of us...
- 913
- 01:21:06,427 --> 01:21:08,510
- ...to write a story.
- 914
- 01:21:10,262 --> 01:21:12,156
- A ghost story.
- 915
- 01:21:14,250 --> 01:21:17,057
- It's a competition, of course.
- 916
- 01:21:17,137 --> 01:21:19,639
- Whoever writes the finest story...
- 917
- 01:21:20,780 --> 01:21:22,642
- ...shall win.
- 918
- 01:21:26,378 --> 01:21:28,392
- Miss Clairmont...
- 919
- 01:21:29,765 --> 01:21:31,276
- ...you...
- 920
- 01:21:31,739 --> 01:21:33,557
- ...your job...
- 921
- 01:21:33,637 --> 01:21:35,353
- ...is to transcribe them.
- 922
- 01:21:37,182 --> 01:21:39,000
- How dare you?
- 923
- 01:21:39,776 --> 01:21:42,647
- What right do you have to treat me like this?
- 924
- 01:21:43,380 --> 01:21:44,830
- Your lover.
- 925
- 01:21:46,148 --> 01:21:47,717
- Claire...
- 926
- 01:21:50,095 --> 01:21:52,161
- ...you are not my lover.
- 927
- 01:21:53,865 --> 01:21:55,860
- You are a dalliance.
- 928
- 01:21:56,459 --> 01:21:58,728
- A lapse in judgment.
- 929
- 01:21:59,487 --> 01:22:03,543
- A silly little girl.
- 930
- 01:22:13,018 --> 01:22:15,465
- I'm sorry, have I caused a scene?
- 931
- 01:22:24,730 --> 01:22:28,087
- Sir, I have an urgent message
- arrived from London.
- 932
- 01:22:34,380 --> 01:22:35,370
- Claire!
- 933
- 01:22:50,922 --> 01:22:52,767
- Is everything alright, sir?
- 934
- 01:23:03,419 --> 01:23:04,929
- Claire.
- 935
- 01:23:05,987 --> 01:23:08,674
- Why... why must they be so vile?
- 936
- 01:23:16,072 --> 01:23:18,751
- Don't let such cruelty wound you.
- 937
- 01:23:19,701 --> 01:23:22,316
- You're stronger than you realize...
- 938
- 01:23:22,396 --> 01:23:24,806
- ...and you don't need anything from them.
- 939
- 01:23:25,998 --> 01:23:28,633
- You don't need anything from them.
- 940
- 01:23:37,243 --> 01:23:39,238
- Thank you, Mary.
- 941
- 01:24:10,251 --> 01:24:13,009
- - No!
- - I need to speak to you.
- 942
- 01:24:13,089 --> 01:24:14,599
- No!
- 943
- 01:25:31,107 --> 01:25:33,634
- I no longer see the world...
- 944
- 01:25:33,714 --> 01:25:37,147
- ...and its works as they before
- appeared to me.
- 945
- 01:25:38,073 --> 01:25:40,309
- But now misery has come home...
- 946
- 01:25:40,708 --> 01:25:43,996
- ...and men appear to me as monsters...
- 947
- 01:25:44,176 --> 01:25:46,580
- ...thirsting for each other's blood.
- 948
- 01:25:48,390 --> 01:25:51,614
- And I, a miserable spectacle
- of wrecked humanity...
- 949
- 01:25:51,694 --> 01:25:55,106
- ...pitiable to others
- and intolerable to myself.
- 950
- 01:25:58,469 --> 01:26:00,272
- Has Claire risen?
- 951
- 01:26:00,352 --> 01:26:03,848
- She sent down word.
- She is feeling unwell this morning.
- 952
- 01:26:04,707 --> 01:26:06,523
- Where is Shelley?
- 953
- 01:26:08,085 --> 01:26:10,316
- I had assumed he was with you.
- 954
- 01:26:13,451 --> 01:26:15,266
- I think we've found him.
- 955
- 01:26:16,603 --> 01:26:18,814
- Mr. Shelley.
- 956
- 01:26:20,641 --> 01:26:23,370
- You look like you could do
- with some breakfast.
- 957
- 01:26:23,451 --> 01:26:25,336
- Do I?
- 958
- 01:26:26,362 --> 01:26:28,184
- How were the taverns?
- 959
- 01:26:28,765 --> 01:26:30,635
- Disgusting.
- 960
- 01:26:31,834 --> 01:26:33,700
- I, uh...
- 961
- 01:26:33,937 --> 01:26:35,983
- ...I started upon my story.
- 962
- 01:26:36,381 --> 01:26:38,611
- I've called it 'The Vampyre'.
- 963
- 01:26:38,691 --> 01:26:41,864
- Very well. Well, we have our first story.
- 964
- 01:26:41,944 --> 01:26:43,838
- A vampire.
- 965
- 01:26:44,389 --> 01:26:47,804
- I thought the challenge
- was a... was a ghost story?
- 966
- 01:26:48,284 --> 01:26:50,746
- Not a childish superstition.
- 967
- 01:26:51,212 --> 01:26:53,591
- You do not believe in vampires, Mr. Shelley?
- 968
- 01:26:53,671 --> 01:26:56,148
- No more than I believe in physicians.
- 969
- 01:26:56,659 --> 01:26:58,688
- Percy, that's quite enough.
- 970
- 01:27:05,392 --> 01:27:09,383
- I thought you would know intimately
- about the existence of nocturnal beings...
- 971
- 01:27:09,464 --> 01:27:11,756
- ...who exploit the vulnerable.
- 972
- 01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:24,070
- - Did you just slap him?
- - Madam, you have my sympathy.
- 973
- 01:27:26,306 --> 01:27:29,621
- No story from Polidori.
- 974
- 01:27:29,701 --> 01:27:31,048
- How disappointing.
- 975
- 01:27:32,119 --> 01:27:35,114
- Whatever shall we do
- to entertain ourselves now?
- 976
- 01:27:41,253 --> 01:27:43,314
- Well, I'm going to go riding.
- 977
- 01:27:47,268 --> 01:27:50,009
- I need something thick between my legs.
- 978
- 01:27:53,559 --> 01:27:55,446
- What's wrong with you?
- 979
- 01:27:55,526 --> 01:27:57,413
- You think I'm an idiot.
- 980
- 01:27:57,904 --> 01:28:01,769
- Oh, you claim no interest in Hogg.
- That's alright. But the good doctor...
- 981
- 01:28:01,849 --> 01:28:05,356
- ...oh, yes, he's more
- to your liking, isn't he?
- 982
- 01:28:05,437 --> 01:28:07,297
- Where were you all night?
- 983
- 01:28:07,377 --> 01:28:10,860
- I do not have to justify myself
- to you or to anyone!
- 984
- 01:28:11,518 --> 01:28:15,341
- - You have no idea the responsibilities I bear.
- - What responsibilities?
- 985
- 01:28:15,922 --> 01:28:17,833
- She drowned herself, Mary.
- 986
- 01:28:19,767 --> 01:28:23,655
- Threw herself in the filthy
- water at Battersea.
- 987
- 01:28:23,735 --> 01:28:25,165
- Who?
- 988
- 01:28:27,099 --> 01:28:28,510
- Harriet.
- 989
- 01:28:30,161 --> 01:28:32,024
- My wife.
- 990
- 01:28:44,551 --> 01:28:46,641
- It's time that we left this place.
- 991
- 01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:53,949
- Claire?
- 992
- 01:28:54,029 --> 01:28:56,271
- He doesn't want me.
- 993
- 01:28:57,455 --> 01:28:59,194
- He said...
- 994
- 01:28:59,274 --> 01:29:02,287
- ...he said that he will provide
- for the baby...
- 995
- 01:29:03,075 --> 01:29:04,941
- ...but that is all.
- 996
- 01:29:14,096 --> 01:29:16,577
- It's been such a mistake.
- 997
- 01:29:16,934 --> 01:29:18,487
- Mary, it's...
- 998
- 01:29:19,552 --> 01:29:21,362
- ...a mistake.
- 999
- 01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:56,190
- I wanted to say goodbye...
- 1000
- 01:29:57,833 --> 01:30:01,682
- ...to thank you for your hospitality.
- 1001
- 01:30:05,381 --> 01:30:07,477
- I know what you must think of me...
- 1002
- 01:30:08,901 --> 01:30:12,381
- ...but I have never considered
- myself one for fatherhood.
- 1003
- 01:30:13,540 --> 01:30:16,577
- I am under no illusions about your situation.
- 1004
- 01:30:17,835 --> 01:30:21,493
- - Claire, unfortunately...
- - I never loved her.
- 1005
- 01:30:22,173 --> 01:30:26,378
- Nor did I pretend to love her.
- Nor do I believe she loved me.
- 1006
- 01:30:27,387 --> 01:30:31,293
- But a man is a man...
- 1007
- 01:30:31,373 --> 01:30:32,876
- ...and a girl is a girl.
- 1008
- 01:30:32,975 --> 01:30:37,625
- And when a young girl comes prancing
- to an old man at all hours...
- 1009
- 01:30:37,705 --> 01:30:40,384
- ...there is but one way.
- 1010
- 01:30:41,993 --> 01:30:44,834
- There is always another way.
- 1011
- 01:30:46,682 --> 01:30:49,469
- And when we make such choices...
- 1012
- 01:30:49,549 --> 01:30:52,126
- ...there are inevitably consequences.
- 1013
- 01:31:14,309 --> 01:31:17,381
- Always see.
- 1014
- 01:31:23,819 --> 01:31:25,680
- Safe travels, Mary.
- 1015
- 01:31:26,822 --> 01:31:29,457
- I look forward to reading your work some day.
- 1016
- 01:32:27,940 --> 01:32:31,836
- Rid yourself of the thoughts
- and words of other people, Mary.
- 1017
- 01:32:34,740 --> 01:32:36,751
- Find your own voice.
- 1018
- 01:33:02,450 --> 01:33:05,894
- It was a dreary night of November...
- 1019
- 01:33:05,974 --> 01:33:07,477
- ...and...
- 1020
- 01:33:08,348 --> 01:33:11,212
- It was a dreary night of November...
- 1021
- 01:33:11,993 --> 01:33:15,490
- ...that I beheld
- the accomplishment of my toils.
- 1022
- 01:33:19,676 --> 01:33:22,510
- Remember that I am thy creature.
- 1023
- 01:33:23,746 --> 01:33:26,221
- I ought to be thy Adam...
- 1024
- 01:33:26,301 --> 01:33:29,105
- ...but I am rather the fallen angel...
- 1025
- 01:33:29,627 --> 01:33:33,100
- ...whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
- 1026
- 01:33:36,593 --> 01:33:38,936
- Everywhere I see bliss...
- 1027
- 01:33:42,164 --> 01:33:43,970
- ...from which...
- 1028
- 01:33:45,802 --> 01:33:49,071
- ...from which, from which I alone...
- 1029
- 01:33:49,151 --> 01:33:51,775
- ...am irrevocably excluded.
- 1030
- 01:33:53,359 --> 01:33:55,976
- I was benevolent and good...
- 1031
- 01:33:56,657 --> 01:33:59,085
- ...misery made me a fiend...
- 1032
- 01:33:59,165 --> 01:34:01,328
- Make me happy.
- 1033
- 01:34:01,408 --> 01:34:04,814
- And I shall again be virtuous.
- 1034
- 01:34:05,931 --> 01:34:08,818
- "But soon", he cried...
- 1035
- 01:34:09,826 --> 01:34:11,849
- "...I shall die...
- 1036
- 01:34:12,153 --> 01:34:14,674
- ...and what I now feel be no longer felt.
- 1037
- 01:34:18,744 --> 01:34:20,254
- Soon...
- 1038
- 01:34:21,137 --> 01:34:23,384
- ...these burning miseries...
- 1039
- 01:34:23,866 --> 01:34:25,791
- ...will be extinct.
- 1040
- 01:34:35,242 --> 01:34:38,088
- I shall ascend my funeral pyre...
- 1041
- 01:34:39,181 --> 01:34:40,795
- ...triumphantly...
- 1042
- 01:34:42,017 --> 01:34:45,676
- ...and exult in the agony
- of the torturing flames.
- 1043
- 01:34:46,997 --> 01:34:50,434
- My spirit will sleep in peace...
- 1044
- 01:34:50,514 --> 01:34:52,650
- ...or if it thinks...
- 1045
- 01:34:52,730 --> 01:34:55,154
- ...it will not surely think thus.
- 1046
- 01:34:57,189 --> 01:34:58,783
- Farewell."
- 1047
- 01:35:05,482 --> 01:35:08,068
- The End.
- 1048
- 01:36:12,499 --> 01:36:15,052
- Mary. Mary.
- 1049
- 01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:20,670
- It is magnificent.
- 1050
- 01:36:21,858 --> 01:36:25,331
- It exceeds even
- what I believed you capable of.
- 1051
- 01:36:25,412 --> 01:36:27,707
- It has so much potential.
- 1052
- 01:36:28,323 --> 01:36:30,291
- I just have one question.
- 1053
- 01:36:30,908 --> 01:36:33,999
- The doctor, he gets all these body parts...
- 1054
- 01:36:34,179 --> 01:36:37,769
- ...and he sews them together in order
- to make the most perfect creature...
- 1055
- 01:36:37,849 --> 01:36:41,195
- ...but when he brings it to life, essentially
- what he has created is a kind of monster.
- 1056
- 01:36:41,912 --> 01:36:43,319
- Yes.
- 1057
- 01:36:43,864 --> 01:36:47,679
- Well, couldn't it be something more...
- something more hopeful?
- 1058
- 01:36:47,759 --> 01:36:51,085
- Imagine if he could create the perfect being.
- 1059
- 01:36:51,165 --> 01:36:53,168
- Um, an angel.
- 1060
- 01:36:53,724 --> 01:36:54,961
- An angel?
- 1061
- 01:36:55,041 --> 01:36:58,449
- Yes, and in doing so,
- he could show what man can be.
- 1062
- 01:36:58,829 --> 01:37:02,052
- He creates a version of ourselves
- that shines with goodness...
- 1063
- 01:37:02,132 --> 01:37:05,611
- ...and thus, thus delivers
- a message for mankind.
- 1064
- 01:37:06,168 --> 01:37:08,448
- It is a message for mankind.
- 1065
- 01:37:09,180 --> 01:37:12,613
- Well, I mean a message
- of hope and of perfection.
- 1066
- 01:37:12,693 --> 01:37:17,288
- What would you... what would we
- know of hope and perfection?
- 1067
- 01:37:21,677 --> 01:37:23,470
- Look around you.
- 1068
- 01:37:24,796 --> 01:37:27,066
- Look at the mess we've made.
- 1069
- 01:37:28,074 --> 01:37:29,960
- Look at me.
- 1070
- 01:37:45,150 --> 01:37:47,186
- It makes sense this way.
- 1071
- 01:37:50,472 --> 01:37:54,712
- - I'll take it to my publisher and convince...
- - No. I will go alone.
- 1072
- 01:38:07,489 --> 01:38:09,303
- You are how old, Miss Godwin?
- 1073
- 01:38:11,884 --> 01:38:13,765
- I am 18.
- 1074
- 01:38:13,845 --> 01:38:15,870
- That really is quite young.
- 1075
- 01:38:17,098 --> 01:38:21,271
- If I'm old enough to bear children,
- I'm old enough to put pen to paper.
- 1076
- 01:38:21,351 --> 01:38:25,010
- Curious subject matter
- for a young lady, wouldn't you say?
- 1077
- 01:38:25,991 --> 01:38:29,736
- And when that young lady
- just happens to be the wife, uh...
- 1078
- 01:38:30,703 --> 01:38:32,327
- ...companion...
- 1079
- 01:38:33,455 --> 01:38:35,251
- ...of Mr. Shelley.
- 1080
- 01:38:37,327 --> 01:38:40,472
- Are you suggesting the work
- belongs to Mr. Shelley?
- 1081
- 01:38:40,872 --> 01:38:42,482
- Well...
- 1082
- 01:38:42,562 --> 01:38:46,327
- ...perhaps there are some other writings
- of yours that I could compare it to?
- 1083
- 01:38:46,407 --> 01:38:48,528
- It is my story.
- 1084
- 01:38:48,608 --> 01:38:52,520
- Did you ask this of Mr. Shelley
- when he first presented his work to you?
- 1085
- 01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,673
- Or do you save this insult for young women?
- 1086
- 01:38:55,813 --> 01:38:59,085
- And you dare to question a woman's ability...
- 1087
- 01:38:59,165 --> 01:39:02,595
- ...to experience loss, death...
- 1088
- 01:39:03,094 --> 01:39:04,696
- ...betrayal.
- 1089
- 01:39:04,776 --> 01:39:07,566
- All of which is present in this story.
- 1090
- 01:39:07,646 --> 01:39:09,456
- In my story.
- 1091
- 01:39:11,211 --> 01:39:15,076
- Which you would have realized if you'd
- employed the time judging the work...
- 1092
- 01:39:15,156 --> 01:39:17,234
- ...instead of judging me.
- 1093
- 01:39:35,477 --> 01:39:37,425
- Did you finish it?
- 1094
- 01:39:39,171 --> 01:39:40,690
- Yes.
- 1095
- 01:39:41,699 --> 01:39:43,743
- It chilled me to the bone.
- 1096
- 01:39:45,821 --> 01:39:48,808
- It's good to enjoy
- a ghost story now and then.
- 1097
- 01:39:49,982 --> 01:39:52,401
- We both know this is no ghost story.
- 1098
- 01:39:55,622 --> 01:40:00,075
- I've never read such
- a perfect encapsulation...
- 1099
- 01:40:00,957 --> 01:40:03,578
- ...of what it feels to be abandoned.
- 1100
- 01:40:05,898 --> 01:40:08,217
- I seethed with your monster's rage.
- 1101
- 01:40:09,827 --> 01:40:11,871
- I lusted for his revenge.
- 1102
- 01:40:14,741 --> 01:40:16,829
- Because it was my own.
- 1103
- 01:40:25,342 --> 01:40:26,748
- I wonder...
- 1104
- 01:40:26,828 --> 01:40:30,692
- ...how many souls will sympathize
- with your creature's torments?
- 1105
- 01:40:33,175 --> 01:40:36,262
- More than should, I expect.
- 1106
- 01:40:42,002 --> 01:40:44,038
- It is time I moved home.
- 1107
- 01:40:45,822 --> 01:40:48,659
- You must get your story published, Mary.
- 1108
- 01:40:55,832 --> 01:40:58,846
- Dear Madam, thank you
- for sending us your manuscript...
- 1109
- 01:40:58,926 --> 01:41:01,332
- '...Frankenstein or A Modern Prometheus'.
- 1110
- 01:41:01,413 --> 01:41:03,844
- Unfortunately, this is not
- a piece that interests us.
- 1111
- 01:41:03,924 --> 01:41:06,519
- - You regret to inform me...
- - ...that we shall not be publishing...
- 1112
- 01:41:06,599 --> 01:41:08,965
- - ...your manuscript.
- - ...our taste in judgment alike...
- 1113
- 01:41:09,045 --> 01:41:12,273
- - This subject is not to...
- - ...taste of our readers from a female author.
- 1114
- 01:41:12,353 --> 01:41:16,297
- In fact, it strikes us as hardly an
- appropriate subject for a young lady...
- 1115
- 01:41:16,377 --> 01:41:22,062
- We do not deny that the work has merit
- but we are cautious in proceeding.
- 1116
- 01:41:22,142 --> 01:41:26,556
- The truth is you have
- nowhere else to go with your story.
- 1117
- 01:41:46,667 --> 01:41:51,368
- The Lackington Group will publish it.
- 500 copies will be printed.
- 1118
- 01:41:52,072 --> 01:41:56,538
- It will be published anonymously,
- provided you write the introduction.
- 1119
- 01:41:57,318 --> 01:42:00,590
- Well, of course. I'd be delighted.
- 1120
- 01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,262
- So everyone will think you wrote it.
- 1121
- 01:42:05,342 --> 01:42:08,029
- Provided it's published, what does it matter?
- 1122
- 01:42:09,897 --> 01:42:11,726
- What does it matter?
- 1123
- 01:42:13,375 --> 01:42:16,871
- How is it possible
- that you still don't understand?
- 1124
- 01:42:17,464 --> 01:42:21,317
- You want me to abandon my claim to it
- because my gender might spoil its success.
- 1125
- 01:42:21,397 --> 01:42:24,040
- - I never said that.
- - You don't have to.
- 1126
- 01:42:24,130 --> 01:42:27,719
- Not once do you ever think about
- the consequences of your actions!
- 1127
- 01:42:27,799 --> 01:42:30,813
- You bear just as much
- responsibility for our life as I.
- 1128
- 01:42:30,893 --> 01:42:35,210
- I'm not some grand architect
- of our misery, Mary.
- 1129
- 01:42:35,290 --> 01:42:37,863
- You bear the responsibility.
- 1130
- 01:42:37,943 --> 01:42:41,597
- I bear the responsibility
- of ever believing in you!
- 1131
- 01:44:18,851 --> 01:44:21,352
- - Thank you.
- - John!
- 1132
- 01:44:29,061 --> 01:44:32,732
- - You look...
- - Like I've seen better days?
- 1133
- 01:44:33,525 --> 01:44:35,588
- Mr. Godwin said the same.
- 1134
- 01:44:35,668 --> 01:44:37,311
- You saw my father?
- 1135
- 01:44:39,214 --> 01:44:42,677
- Yes. His shop is stocking my work.
- 1136
- 01:44:43,610 --> 01:44:46,614
- - You finished it.
- - Not quite.
- 1137
- 01:44:48,754 --> 01:44:52,113
- - Lord Byron?
- - I'd all but forgotten about it until...
- 1138
- 01:44:52,193 --> 01:44:56,040
- ...Byron's publisher somehow
- got ahold of it and printed it as his.
- 1139
- 01:44:57,357 --> 01:45:00,745
- I tried to assert my rights as
- the true author but in response...
- 1140
- 01:45:00,825 --> 01:45:02,583
- ...I've only been called a plagiarist.
- 1141
- 01:45:02,663 --> 01:45:05,802
- I will write to Byron and appeal
- to him to tell the truth.
- 1142
- 01:45:05,882 --> 01:45:07,715
- He has already tried.
- 1143
- 01:45:07,795 --> 01:45:09,740
- He despises the story.
- 1144
- 01:45:09,820 --> 01:45:12,664
- The public just has no interest in the truth.
- 1145
- 01:45:13,606 --> 01:45:16,335
- What about your mysterious masterpiece?
- 1146
- 01:45:16,416 --> 01:45:18,840
- The absence of your name was notable.
- 1147
- 01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:20,566
- It is ironic, isn't it?
- 1148
- 01:45:20,646 --> 01:45:23,138
- I write a story lampooning Byron...
- 1149
- 01:45:23,218 --> 01:45:27,474
- ...the blood-sucking devourer
- of souls and he gets all the credit.
- 1150
- 01:45:27,554 --> 01:45:31,728
- While you wrote about a desperately
- lonely and abandoned creature.
- 1151
- 01:45:31,808 --> 01:45:34,346
- Abandoned by
- an irresponsible narcissist and...
- 1152
- 01:45:34,427 --> 01:45:36,776
- Shelley gets all the credit.
- 1153
- 01:45:38,915 --> 01:45:41,694
- Nonetheless, congratulations.
- 1154
- 01:45:43,153 --> 01:45:45,132
- Shelley must be pleased.
- 1155
- 01:45:45,212 --> 01:45:47,482
- I haven't seen Shelley in months.
- 1156
- 01:45:54,747 --> 01:45:56,227
- It's for you.
- 1157
- 01:46:00,696 --> 01:46:03,357
- We have created monsters, Mary.
- 1158
- 01:46:04,716 --> 01:46:06,769
- But let's not let them devour us.
- 1159
- 01:47:26,858 --> 01:47:29,494
- Gentlemen, welcome. Thank you for coming.
- 1160
- 01:47:30,051 --> 01:47:33,160
- We're here to celebrate the...
- 1161
- 01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:36,352
- ...the success of 'Frankenstein;
- Or The Modern Prometheus'.
- 1162
- 01:47:36,433 --> 01:47:39,956
- It's a remarkable story
- asserting, as it does, the...
- 1163
- 01:47:40,036 --> 01:47:42,993
- ...absolute human necessity for connection.
- 1164
- 01:47:43,073 --> 01:47:46,697
- From the moment Doctor Frankenstein's
- creature opens its eyes...
- 1165
- 01:47:46,777 --> 01:47:49,326
- ...it seeks the touch of its creator.
- 1166
- 01:47:49,407 --> 01:47:51,378
- But he recoils in terror...
- 1167
- 01:47:51,559 --> 01:47:56,423
- ...leaving the creature to its first
- of many experiences of neglect...
- 1168
- 01:47:56,503 --> 01:47:58,399
- ...and isolation.
- 1169
- 01:47:58,480 --> 01:48:03,293
- And if only Frankenstein had been
- able to bestow upon his creation...
- 1170
- 01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,993
- ...a compassionate touch. A kind word.
- 1171
- 01:48:08,724 --> 01:48:10,985
- What a tragedy might have been avoided.
- 1172
- 01:48:11,577 --> 01:48:14,243
- But it is a credit to the writer...
- 1173
- 01:48:14,323 --> 01:48:18,524
- ...that it is these very thoughts
- that continue to run through our minds...
- 1174
- 01:48:18,604 --> 01:48:22,014
- ...long after we've turned
- the final page of this book...
- 1175
- 01:48:22,094 --> 01:48:27,702
- ...which I know you all agree
- is one of the most complete and...
- 1176
- 01:48:28,585 --> 01:48:31,987
- ...certainly one of the most
- original publications of our age.
- 1177
- 01:48:34,691 --> 01:48:35,915
- As...
- 1178
- 01:48:43,750 --> 01:48:45,636
- Thank you.
- 1179
- 01:48:46,293 --> 01:48:48,162
- Thank you.
- 1180
- 01:48:50,641 --> 01:48:52,256
- I know many of you wonder...
- 1181
- 01:48:52,336 --> 01:48:54,776
- ...who could have written
- this horrific tale...
- 1182
- 01:48:54,856 --> 01:48:57,383
- ...and why was it published anonymously.
- 1183
- 01:48:57,764 --> 01:49:01,371
- I see some of you suggest
- that the work belongs to me.
- 1184
- 01:49:01,802 --> 01:49:06,646
- Indeed, you could say that the work
- would not even exist without my contribution.
- 1185
- 01:49:12,053 --> 01:49:13,898
- But to my shame...
- 1186
- 01:49:15,823 --> 01:49:20,097
- ...the only claim I remotely
- have to this work...
- 1187
- 01:49:20,177 --> 01:49:22,466
- ...is inspiring the desperate loneliness...
- 1188
- 01:49:22,546 --> 01:49:25,605
- ...that defines Frankenstein's creature.
- 1189
- 01:49:28,585 --> 01:49:33,962
- The author of 'Frankenstein;
- Or A Modern Prometheus' is, of course...
- 1190
- 01:49:34,042 --> 01:49:36,629
- ...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
- 1191
- 01:49:43,701 --> 01:49:47,949
- It is a work of singular genius
- and she is indebted to no one...
- 1192
- 01:49:48,029 --> 01:49:50,074
- ...in its creation.
- 1193
- 01:50:03,163 --> 01:50:04,756
- Percy.
- 1194
- 01:50:05,916 --> 01:50:07,326
- Mary.
- 1195
- 01:50:13,055 --> 01:50:15,800
- I really thought you'd left for good.
- 1196
- 01:50:22,398 --> 01:50:25,461
- I never promised you a life without misery...
- 1197
- 01:50:27,003 --> 01:50:30,811
- ...but I underestimated
- the depths of despair...
- 1198
- 01:50:31,291 --> 01:50:34,504
- ...and the weight of regret
- we were to endure.
- 1199
- 01:50:36,588 --> 01:50:39,600
- I lost everything to be with you, Percy.
- 1200
- 01:50:42,685 --> 01:50:45,922
- Always set out to create
- something wonderful...
- 1201
- 01:50:47,808 --> 01:50:49,731
- ...something beautiful.
- 1202
- 01:50:51,211 --> 01:50:54,456
- But something volatile seethed within us.
- 1203
- 01:50:57,258 --> 01:50:58,836
- Behold...
- 1204
- 01:51:00,803 --> 01:51:03,873
- ...the monster galvanized...
- 1205
- 01:51:06,668 --> 01:51:09,769
- ...but if I had not learned to fight...
- 1206
- 01:51:09,849 --> 01:51:11,807
- ...through the anguish...
- 1207
- 01:51:12,708 --> 01:51:15,160
- I would not have found this voice again.
- 1208
- 01:51:16,994 --> 01:51:19,651
- My choices made me who I am.
- 1209
- 01:51:22,650 --> 01:51:25,498
- And I regret nothing.
- 1210
- 01:53:10,232 --> 01:53:12,855
- You were soon borne away by the waves...
- 1211
- 01:53:13,335 --> 01:53:14,967
- ...and lost...
- 1212
- 01:53:15,047 --> 01:53:17,451
- ...in darkness and distance.
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