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- [projector clicking]
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- [silence]
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- [soft rain pattering]
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- [crow calling]
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- [pencil writing]
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- [Mary breathing softly]
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- [distant crows calls]
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- [writing continues]
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- [Mary whispering
- indistinctly]
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- [writing continues]
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- Subtitles by explosieskull
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- [gentle dramatic music ♪]
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- [writing stops]
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- ♪ ♪
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- [Mary, voiceover] Scarcely
- had the demon cast
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- his burning stare upon her.
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- Scarcely had...
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- ...the demon cast
- his burning stare upon her...
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- 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,373
- ...leaving his face
- entirely without symmetry...
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- 00:02:02,375 --> 00:02:07,288
- ...leaving his face
- entirely without form...
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- 00:02:07,290 --> 00:02:11,080
- ...and as her fingertips
- touched upon his lips,
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- he melted into her.
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- [thunder rumbles]
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- ♪ ♪
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- ♪ ♪
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- [people chattering]
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- ♪ ♪
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- [horse whinnies]
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- She's looking for you.
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- [music fades]
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- [William] Next time you run
- off to read ghost stories,
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- take me with you.
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- Who says I was
- reading ghost stories?
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- It's thrilling, isn't it?
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- My heart was racing,
- I was so scared.
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- If I were you,
- I'd be more scared
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- of your father
- catching you reading it.
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- I don't know how he vexes so.
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- People liked his Gothic
- novels.
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- Your father
- is in the bookshop working.
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- 00:03:35,290 --> 00:03:38,330
- Claire has been tending
- to the house.
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- 00:03:38,332 --> 00:03:40,457
- I have spent all hours
- going through the ledgers.
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- 00:03:41,375 --> 00:03:42,830
- Where were you today
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- that you couldn't relieve
- your father for a few hours?
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- 00:03:44,457 --> 00:03:46,373
- I completed my work
- for today.
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- 00:03:46,375 --> 00:03:48,707
- I just went out
- for some fresh air.
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- I know where you were.
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- 00:03:56,915 --> 00:03:59,082
- Look who has returned,
- my dear.
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- 00:04:00,832 --> 00:04:02,375
- I just went out for a walk.
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- 00:04:05,332 --> 00:04:08,082
- [distant chatter
- on the street]
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- 00:04:10,457 --> 00:04:12,288
- [Godwin]
- Glad to see you
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- 00:04:12,290 --> 00:04:15,373
- devoting yourself
- to these great works, Mary.
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- [bell on door jingles]
- 54
- 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:23,333
- "To love reading is to have
- everything within your reach."
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- [door opens, closes]
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- [Man] Payment is over-due, Mr.
- Godwin.
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- 00:04:30,833 --> 00:04:34,373
- Need I remind you of the
- conditions of your loan?
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- [Godwin]
- Business has been very poor.
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- Allow me one more month.
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- [Man] Another month?
- It's six months already.
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- 00:04:42,083 --> 00:04:45,288
- Now, weren't you asking
- for a ghost story?
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- Is it a new one?
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- [Man] Another month. Understand?
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- [mysterious music ♪]
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- [Mary]
- I will rise from the grave...
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- 00:05:00,708 --> 00:05:04,500
- ...to tell the tale of the
- treachery I have suffered.
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- And to seek my revenge!
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- 00:05:09,708 --> 00:05:11,288
- [giggling]
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- [people chattering]
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- [Mary, voiceover]
- Scarcely had the demon cast...
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- ♪ ♪
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- ...his burning stare
- upon her...
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- ...in her icy cheeks...
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- [Claire whimpering]
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- [fretting indistinctly]
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- Claire, Claire. Claire!
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- It's just a nightmare.
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- It's all right.
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- Go back to sleep.
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- It's all right.
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- [Claire whimpers]
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- Go back to sleep.
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- [clock bells ringing
- in the distance]
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- [quiet, melancholy music ♪]
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- [footsteps approaching]
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- [Godwin]
- You can't sleep?
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- ♪ ♪
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- Do you miss her?
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- She was so full of passion.
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- So full of defiance.
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- As if she were at war constantly
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- with everyone and everything.
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- ♪ ♪
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- And enjoying every moment
- of the battle.
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- Warriors like your mother are
- never long for this world.
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- ♪ ♪
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- [distant chatter on the
- street]
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- [Mary, voiceover] The Devil's claws
- lunged at the maiden's neck.
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- Sinking his talons...
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- 00:07:38,625 --> 00:07:42,706
- ...deep, deep into her ripe,
- pale skin.
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- Blood dripped...
- like tracks in milky snow.
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- [Mrs. Godwin]
- Mary?
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- [Mary, voiceover]
- She screamed.
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- [Mrs. Godwin]
- Where are you?
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- [footsteps]
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- No one watching the shop,
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- and you back here
- scribbling away like a child.
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- 00:07:58,208 --> 00:07:59,498
- Let's see what's so important
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- that it's kept you
- from your work, shall we?
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- It is private.
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- 00:08:02,750 --> 00:08:04,248
- [scoffs]
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- 00:08:04,250 --> 00:08:05,706
- What thoughts
- haunt the daughter
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- 00:08:05,708 --> 00:08:07,288
- of these esteemed writers?
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- 00:08:07,290 --> 00:08:08,498
- Let go!
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- [gasping]
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- 00:08:12,625 --> 00:08:13,913
- Mary.
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- 00:08:13,915 --> 00:08:14,750
- She pushed me!
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- - Did you not see her-
- - I didn't do anything.
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- 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:19,750
- You all right?
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- 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:22,623
- I can't live
- with someone like this.
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- 00:08:22,625 --> 00:08:24,913
- There's not a grain
- of respect in her.
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- 00:08:24,915 --> 00:08:27,457
- - [Mary] I didn't do anything!
- - That's enough. That's enough.
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- 00:08:34,082 --> 00:08:35,622
- [Godwin, voiceover]
- He's an old friend.
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- 00:08:35,624 --> 00:08:38,580
- Mr. Baxter is as firm
- a believer in education
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- as I am.
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- 00:08:39,624 --> 00:08:41,747
- You'll find his house
- very comfortable.
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- 00:08:41,749 --> 00:08:42,582
- [Mary, voiceover]
- Scotland?
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- 00:08:44,249 --> 00:08:46,082
- [Godwin, voiceover] I'm sending you
- away because I love you, Mary.
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- 00:08:47,750 --> 00:08:49,039
- And because I sincerely hope
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- that you'll find the refuge
- that you need there.
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- [melancholy music ♪]
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- 00:08:54,832 --> 00:08:57,039
- Also that the solitude
- will give you time
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- for introspection.
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- 00:08:59,791 --> 00:09:00,875
- Your writing...
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- 00:09:01,707 --> 00:09:04,330
- ...this is the work
- of an imitator.
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- 00:09:04,332 --> 00:09:06,748
- Rid yourself of
- the thoughts and words
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- 00:09:06,750 --> 00:09:08,832
- of other people, Mary.
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- Find your own voice.
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- ♪ ♪
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- [whimpering]
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- ♪ ♪
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- 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,123
- [birds singing]
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- ♪ ♪
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- 00:09:50,791 --> 00:09:52,789
- Mary! Welcome.
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- 00:09:52,791 --> 00:09:55,539
- Oh, my God, you look so much
- like your mother.
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- 00:09:55,541 --> 00:09:57,080
- And, thank the Lord,
- not a thing like your father.
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- 00:09:57,082 --> 00:10:00,873
- I'm William Baxter.
- This is my daughter Isabel.
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- 00:10:00,875 --> 00:10:03,705
- We'll do our best to keep you
- amused out here, Mary.
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- 00:10:03,707 --> 00:10:05,623
- It may not be
- as bustling as London,
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- 00:10:05,625 --> 00:10:08,375
- but I'm sure we can find
- some ways to pass the time.
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- 00:10:26,041 --> 00:10:28,123
- The night is so different here.
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- 00:10:28,125 --> 00:10:31,873
- How do people sleep
- with all this silence?
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- 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:34,416
- Come on, I know
- just where to go.
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- 00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:42,414
- I've thought of trying
- to summon my mother...
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- 00:10:42,416 --> 00:10:43,580
- ...by séance.
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- 00:10:43,582 --> 00:10:46,373
- [branches crackling]
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- 00:10:46,375 --> 00:10:48,707
- But she suffered so long
- with illness...
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- 00:10:49,750 --> 00:10:52,291
- ...what if she has finally
- found peace at last?
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- 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:55,457
- Wouldn't it be cruel
- to disturb her?
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- 00:10:57,207 --> 00:10:59,455
- Do you think
- it could really work,
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- 00:10:59,457 --> 00:11:00,955
- reaching the dead?
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- 00:11:00,957 --> 00:11:02,414
- [insects chirping]
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- 00:11:02,416 --> 00:11:04,291
- I already feel her presence.
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- 00:11:06,125 --> 00:11:07,916
- I miss her so much.
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- 00:11:09,791 --> 00:11:11,833
- Not a day goes by
- when I don't think of her.
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- 00:11:15,750 --> 00:11:18,375
- Would you ever consider
- trying to contact your mother?
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- 00:11:20,916 --> 00:11:22,833
- Maybe she wouldn't
- want me to.
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- 00:11:24,125 --> 00:11:26,166
- Given I was the one
- who killed her.
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- 00:11:28,875 --> 00:11:31,416
- She died just days
- after I was born.
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- 00:11:34,541 --> 00:11:35,583
- Oh, Mary.
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- 00:11:40,541 --> 00:11:41,955
- [wind rustles]
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- 00:11:41,957 --> 00:11:45,875
- [mysterious music ♪]
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- 00:11:50,082 --> 00:11:53,748
- [water rushing]
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- 00:11:53,750 --> 00:11:57,498
- [pleasant, dramatic music ♪]
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- 00:11:57,500 --> 00:11:58,791
- I love it in Scotland.
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- 00:11:59,832 --> 00:12:01,789
- Nothing is as I expected
- it would be.
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- 00:12:01,791 --> 00:12:02,998
- [laughs]
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- 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,998
- You've only been here
- a few weeks.
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- 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,291
- Give it time.
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- 00:12:07,375 --> 00:12:08,998
- In London it's not often
- we have occasion
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- 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,205
- to picnic by the river.
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- 00:12:11,207 --> 00:12:14,289
- Your mistake is waiting
- for an occasion.
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- 00:12:14,291 --> 00:12:15,539
- [giggles]
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- 00:12:15,541 --> 00:12:18,791
- ♪ ♪
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- 00:12:20,832 --> 00:12:21,832
- [wind rustling]
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- 00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:26,041
- ♪ ♪
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- 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,789
- [Coleridge, reciting] I looked upon
- the rotting sea And drew my eyes away
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- 00:12:32,791 --> 00:12:36,330
- I looked upon the rotting deck
- And there the dead men lay
- 189
- 00:12:36,332 --> 00:12:39,664
- I looked to Heaven
- and tried to pray
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- 00:12:39,666 --> 00:12:42,248
- But before a prayer had gushed
- A wicked whisper came...
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- 00:12:42,250 --> 00:12:44,914
- [Baxter] Come in. Come in.
- You must be freezing.
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- 00:12:44,916 --> 00:12:47,205
- If I could just give you
- a couple of my essays.
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- 00:12:47,207 --> 00:12:48,289
- [Servant woman
- speaks indistinctly]
- 194
- 00:12:48,291 --> 00:12:50,539
- My contribution to this
- evening's entertainment.
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- 00:12:50,541 --> 00:12:52,039
- - [Baxter] How are you?
- - [Shelley] Good. How's the party?
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- 00:12:52,041 --> 00:12:54,958
- Isabel... who is that?
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- 00:12:56,125 --> 00:12:58,582
- Oh, that's Shelley.
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- 00:12:59,416 --> 00:13:01,330
- Beautiful, isn't he?
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- 00:13:01,332 --> 00:13:02,330
- He's a radical poet.
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- 00:13:02,332 --> 00:13:04,289
- He thinks poetry
- should reform society,
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- 00:13:04,291 --> 00:13:05,830
- and so he's often in trouble.
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- 00:13:05,832 --> 00:13:07,914
- [Mary]
- Sounds like quite a catch.
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- 00:13:07,916 --> 00:13:10,080
- Come, let me introduce you
- to some friends.
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- 00:13:10,082 --> 00:13:11,873
- [Baxter] There is someone
- I would like you to meet.
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- 00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:12,957
- Good luck.
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- 00:13:13,750 --> 00:13:16,373
- Percy, may I present Mary.
- Mary-
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- 00:13:16,375 --> 00:13:17,914
- [Coleridge]
- Baxter! Come and join us!
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- 00:13:17,916 --> 00:13:19,914
- Oh, it's Coleridge.
- 209
- 00:13:19,916 --> 00:13:21,955
- Mary, could you put
- these nameplates out, please?
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- 00:13:21,957 --> 00:13:24,332
- [party chatter]
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- 00:13:25,957 --> 00:13:27,500
- Let me get those for you.
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- 00:13:29,082 --> 00:13:30,080
- [giggles]
- 213
- 00:13:30,082 --> 00:13:32,457
- I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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- 00:13:34,125 --> 00:13:36,789
- I am
- Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin.
- 215
- 00:13:36,791 --> 00:13:38,123
- Of course.
- 216
- 00:13:38,125 --> 00:13:40,582
- Baxter mentioned you'd
- be joining the family here.
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- 00:13:41,832 --> 00:13:45,582
- I am a great admirer
- of both your parents' work.
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- 00:13:51,957 --> 00:13:55,039
- [Mary] I hope I can entrust you
- to this task, Mr. Shelley.
- 219
- 00:13:55,041 --> 00:13:57,080
- Or will you try to incite me
- to revolution?
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- 00:13:57,082 --> 00:13:59,914
- [Shelley]
- My reputation precedes me.
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- 00:13:59,916 --> 00:14:03,164
- Won't you welcome a change
- from the deafening quiet?
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- 00:14:03,166 --> 00:14:04,708
- [Mary]
- I've grown accustomed to it.
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- 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,123
- In London I spend most of my
- time in my father's bookshop.
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- 00:14:10,125 --> 00:14:13,580
- So the deafening quiet is not
- as dramatic as you may think.
- 225
- 00:14:13,582 --> 00:14:15,539
- Baxter does his best
- for these gatherings.
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- 00:14:15,541 --> 00:14:19,205
- Any lover of poetry will surely
- find a great thrill in the work
- 227
- 00:14:19,207 --> 00:14:21,040
- that is being presented here.
- 228
- 00:14:23,041 --> 00:14:26,500
- So surely
- you are a writer yourself?
- 229
- 00:14:28,125 --> 00:14:29,539
- Not really.
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- 00:14:29,541 --> 00:14:31,166
- Nothing substantial.
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- 00:14:31,916 --> 00:14:34,580
- I hope to, someday.
- 232
- 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:36,080
- And what, may I ask,
- would you constitute
- 233
- 00:14:36,082 --> 00:14:38,250
- as "substantial" in your eyes?
- 234
- 00:14:40,166 --> 00:14:43,039
- Anything that curdles the blood
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- 00:14:43,041 --> 00:14:45,750
- and quickens the beatings
- of the heart.
- 236
- 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:50,164
- [Baxter]
- Ah, perfect!
- 237
- 00:14:50,166 --> 00:14:53,789
- Now may I
- steal Mr. Shelley away?
- 238
- 00:14:53,791 --> 00:14:55,414
- We would love a poem, sir.
- 239
- 00:14:55,416 --> 00:14:56,958
- Certainly, sir.
- 240
- 00:14:59,082 --> 00:15:04,040
- Without an audience, ideas
- remain mere words on a page.
- 241
- 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:09,914
- [Servant woman]
- Mr. Shelley, your essay.
- 242
- 00:15:09,916 --> 00:15:13,205
- Oh, I have no need for those.
- Thank you.
- 243
- 00:15:13,207 --> 00:15:16,330
- I shall trust in the spark
- of new found inspiration.
- 244
- 00:15:16,332 --> 00:15:19,582
- [guests chattering]
- 245
- 00:15:29,625 --> 00:15:33,664
- Oh, not the visioned poet
- in his dreams
- 246
- 00:15:33,666 --> 00:15:37,873
- When silvery clouds float
- through the wildered brain
- 247
- 00:15:37,875 --> 00:15:43,205
- When every sight of lovely,
- wild and grand
- 248
- 00:15:43,207 --> 00:15:44,914
- Astonishes
- 249
- 00:15:44,916 --> 00:15:46,830
- Enraptures
- 250
- 00:15:46,832 --> 00:15:48,332
- Elevates
- 251
- 00:15:49,457 --> 00:15:51,248
- So bright...
- 252
- 00:15:51,250 --> 00:15:54,205
- ...so fair, so wild a shape
- 253
- 00:15:54,207 --> 00:15:55,998
- Hath ever yet beheld
- 254
- 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,330
- As that which reined
- the coursers of the air
- 255
- 00:15:58,332 --> 00:16:01,998
- And poured the magic
- of her gaze
- 256
- 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,082
- Upon the maiden's sleep
- 257
- 00:16:07,416 --> 00:16:11,123
- [dramatic, romantic music ♪]
- 258
- 00:16:11,125 --> 00:16:13,916
- [guests chatter]
- 259
- 00:16:18,041 --> 00:16:20,916
- ♪ ♪
- 260
- 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,873
- [Coleridge, reciting]
- Alone, alone
- 261
- 00:16:35,875 --> 00:16:37,664
- All alone
- 262
- 00:16:37,666 --> 00:16:40,205
- Upon the wide, wide sea
- 263
- 00:16:40,207 --> 00:16:44,414
- And God will not take pity
- on my soul in agony
- 264
- 00:16:44,416 --> 00:16:46,208
- [laughing]
- 265
- 00:16:47,125 --> 00:16:50,248
- - This weather.
- - Ah, stop complaining.
- 266
- 00:16:50,250 --> 00:16:52,205
- It's Scotland,
- what do you expect?
- 267
- 00:16:52,207 --> 00:16:55,205
- So I say to you, if all
- things come from God...
- 268
- 00:16:55,207 --> 00:16:56,539
- ...and we all come from God,
- 269
- 00:16:56,541 --> 00:16:58,580
- are we not part of God?
- 270
- 00:16:58,582 --> 00:17:01,998
- When we think, do we not
- behold the very thoughts of God?
- 271
- 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,748
- Can't say I feel like
- much of a god.
- 272
- 00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:05,247
- Your body is tired, Baxter,
- 273
- 00:17:05,249 --> 00:17:07,708
- but your spirit,
- it longs to soar.
- 274
- 00:17:10,083 --> 00:17:11,583
- What of you, Miss Godwin?
- 275
- 00:17:12,208 --> 00:17:14,581
- Do you think you are of God...
- 276
- 00:17:14,583 --> 00:17:16,913
- ...like the great
- poet Coleridge?
- 277
- 00:17:16,915 --> 00:17:18,457
- [birds chirping]
- 278
- 00:17:19,249 --> 00:17:20,040
- I'll admit...
- 279
- 00:17:21,374 --> 00:17:23,456
- ...I thought Coleridge
- was much more captivating
- 280
- 00:17:23,458 --> 00:17:25,166
- when I was a child.
- 281
- 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:26,581
- There you go.
- 282
- 00:17:26,583 --> 00:17:28,748
- I'm surprised you can
- remember back that far.
- 283
- 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:30,706
- [Coleridge] Behold the
- majesty of God's creation...
- 284
- 00:17:30,708 --> 00:17:33,123
- Well just how old are you then,
- 285
- 00:17:33,125 --> 00:17:35,288
- dear ancient one?
- 286
- 00:17:35,290 --> 00:17:37,248
- Old enough to know
- why you are asking.
- 287
- 00:17:37,250 --> 00:17:38,623
- Ah.
- 288
- 00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:40,831
- [Coleridge] It's inspirational,
- don't you think?
- 289
- 00:17:40,833 --> 00:17:43,081
- - I'm 16.
- - Hmm.
- 290
- 00:17:43,083 --> 00:17:44,788
- How about you?
- 291
- 00:17:44,790 --> 00:17:46,290
- 21.
- 292
- 00:17:47,375 --> 00:17:49,206
- A wise old man indeed.
- 293
- 00:17:49,208 --> 00:17:51,250
- [laughter]
- 294
- 00:17:54,958 --> 00:17:58,331
- [Shelley, voiceover] As mountain
- springs under the morning sun
- 295
- 00:17:58,333 --> 00:18:00,663
- We shall become the same
- 296
- 00:18:00,665 --> 00:18:04,413
- We shall be one spirit
- within two frames
- 297
- 00:18:04,415 --> 00:18:07,373
- Oh, wherefore two?
- 298
- 00:18:07,375 --> 00:18:10,581
- One passion in twin hearts
- which grows and grew
- 299
- 00:18:10,583 --> 00:18:13,373
- Till like two meteors
- of expanding flame
- 300
- 00:18:13,375 --> 00:18:17,373
- Those spheres instinct
- with it become the same
- 301
- 00:18:17,375 --> 00:18:19,038
- Touch, mingle
- 302
- 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,706
- Are transfigured ever still
- 303
- 00:18:20,708 --> 00:18:21,788
- [knock on the door]
- 304
- 00:18:21,790 --> 00:18:24,706
- Burning, yet inconsumable
- 305
- 00:18:24,708 --> 00:18:27,791
- [gentle, melancholy music ♪]
- 306
- 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:34,208
- Mary...
- 307
- 00:18:35,415 --> 00:18:38,207
- ...I'm afraid I have some
- terrible news from London.
- 308
- 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:41,583
- It's your sister Claire.
- 309
- 00:18:46,165 --> 00:18:48,038
- [Mary]
- May I ask you...
- 310
- 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,625
- ...could you tell Mr. Shelley
- I said goodbye?
- 311
- 00:18:52,208 --> 00:18:53,788
- Of course.
- 312
- 00:18:53,790 --> 00:18:56,540
- ♪ ♪
- 313
- 00:19:07,750 --> 00:19:11,415
- [chatter]
- 314
- 00:19:13,125 --> 00:19:15,373
- Was Scotland everything
- I said it would be?
- 315
- 00:19:15,375 --> 00:19:16,540
- Were you happy?
- 316
- 00:19:17,125 --> 00:19:18,625
- [Mary]
- I was.
- 317
- 00:19:21,915 --> 00:19:24,956
- You will live again, Mary.
- You have your mother's spirit.
- 318
- 00:19:24,958 --> 00:19:26,875
- You won't be confined for long.
- 319
- 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,665
- She's been like this for weeks.
- 320
- 00:19:55,415 --> 00:19:56,750
- Claire?
- 321
- 00:19:58,208 --> 00:20:01,208
- Thank God!
- You're finally back!
- 322
- 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,875
- So you aren't dying?
- 323
- 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:11,291
- Only from boredom.
- 324
- 00:20:13,125 --> 00:20:15,250
- You mean you weren't sick
- at all?
- 325
- 00:20:16,875 --> 00:20:19,790
- Well... maybe a little bit.
- 326
- 00:20:21,333 --> 00:20:23,873
- [chatter]
- 327
- 00:20:23,875 --> 00:20:27,540
- [light music ♪]
- 328
- 00:20:30,958 --> 00:20:33,331
- [Shelley, voiceover]
- Poor captive bird!
- 329
- 00:20:33,333 --> 00:20:35,163
- Who, from thy narrow cage
- 330
- 00:20:35,165 --> 00:20:37,706
- Pourest such music,
- that it might assuage
- 331
- 00:20:37,708 --> 00:20:41,623
- The rugged hearts of those
- who prisoned thee
- 332
- 00:20:41,625 --> 00:20:44,663
- Were they not deaf towards
- sweet melody
- 333
- 00:20:44,665 --> 00:20:48,998
- This song shall be thy rose,
- its petals pale
- 334
- 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,998
- Are dead, indeed,
- 335
- 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,498
- my adored Nightingale!
- 336
- 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,373
- ♪ ♪
- 337
- 00:20:56,375 --> 00:20:58,163
- [horse whinnies]
- 338
- 00:20:58,165 --> 00:20:59,623
- [chatter]
- 339
- 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:01,456
- ♪ ♪
- 340
- 00:21:01,458 --> 00:21:03,748
- It seems my mother's
- latest reverie
- 341
- 00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:06,373
- is a young protégé
- for your father.
- 342
- 00:21:06,375 --> 00:21:07,913
- We are all to be
- on our best behavior
- 343
- 00:21:07,915 --> 00:21:10,413
- at dinner tonight
- to win him over.
- 344
- 00:21:10,415 --> 00:21:12,415
- He's wealthy, evidently.
- 345
- 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,706
- She's a woman
- of indomitable hope,
- 346
- 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,458
- I can't deny her that.
- 347
- 00:21:20,790 --> 00:21:22,415
- [Godwin clears his throat]
- 348
- 00:21:26,458 --> 00:21:28,081
- [Godwin]
- Mr. Percy Shelley,
- 349
- 00:21:28,083 --> 00:21:32,373
- may I present Mrs. Godwin,
- my wife.
- 350
- 00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:37,581
- And our children,
- William, Claire and Mary.
- 351
- 00:21:37,583 --> 00:21:38,958
- Delighted.
- 352
- 00:21:41,125 --> 00:21:43,498
- My husband tells me
- you're a poet, Mr Shelley.
- 353
- 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:45,873
- He speaks very highly
- of your work.
- 354
- 00:21:45,875 --> 00:21:49,373
- Well, I am humbled
- by his praise, Mrs. Godwin.
- 355
- 00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:52,663
- I must admit, though, my work
- is not yet widely known.
- 356
- 00:21:52,665 --> 00:21:55,288
- Although I have just completed
- my second volume which...
- 357
- 00:21:55,290 --> 00:21:56,706
- ...awaits publication.
- 358
- 00:21:56,708 --> 00:21:59,373
- [Godwin] Very impressive
- achievement for such a young man.
- 359
- 00:21:59,375 --> 00:22:01,538
- [Shelley] Any achievement of
- mine falls within the shadow
- 360
- 00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:03,123
- of your influence, Mr. Godwin.
- 361
- 00:22:03,125 --> 00:22:04,248
- You flatter me.
- 362
- 00:22:04,250 --> 00:22:06,038
- [Shelley] Hope you will
- consider my proposal
- 363
- 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,956
- to take me on as your protégé.
- 364
- 00:22:07,958 --> 00:22:11,413
- I have a considerable allowance
- at my disposal...
- 365
- 00:22:11,415 --> 00:22:16,038
- ...and would gladly reimburse you
- for any time you might spare.
- 366
- 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,748
- Well, I feel duty bound to...
- 367
- 00:22:19,750 --> 00:22:23,540
- ...foster such ability.
- 368
- 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:26,250
- Well then, that's settled.
- 369
- 00:22:28,250 --> 00:22:29,498
- How fortunate we are
- 370
- 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:32,333
- to be in the presence
- of two great minds.
- 371
- 00:22:33,625 --> 00:22:36,663
- [Mrs. Godwin] You must see
- our bookshop, Mr. Shelley.
- 372
- 00:22:36,665 --> 00:22:40,331
- [Godwin] I have a copy of "The
- Iliad" in the original Greek.
- 373
- 00:22:40,333 --> 00:22:41,581
- Hmm.
- 374
- 00:22:41,583 --> 00:22:44,000
- Perhaps Mary will show it
- to you after dinner.
- 375
- 00:22:47,875 --> 00:22:49,250
- How are you here?
- 376
- 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:53,248
- Does it seem so strange that
- I would seek out the tutelage
- 377
- 00:22:53,250 --> 00:22:55,000
- of the great William Godwin?
- 378
- 00:22:57,500 --> 00:23:00,415
- Clearly I'm not only here
- to see your father.
- 379
- 00:23:01,540 --> 00:23:03,457
- Then why are you here?
- 380
- 00:23:05,790 --> 00:23:09,288
- To once again feel
- the curdling of my blood
- 381
- 00:23:09,290 --> 00:23:12,500
- and the quickening of the
- beatings of my heart.
- 382
- 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,000
- Mary?
- 383
- 00:23:18,915 --> 00:23:20,500
- Mr. Shelley?
- 384
- 00:23:21,790 --> 00:23:24,540
- Your father would like
- to see Mr. Shelley.
- 385
- 00:23:26,665 --> 00:23:27,665
- Thank you.
- 386
- 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:30,081
- I will be with him momentarily.
- 387
- 00:23:30,083 --> 00:23:34,083
- I'm quite enjoying the,
- uh, collection.
- 388
- 00:23:35,583 --> 00:23:36,625
- So I see.
- 389
- 00:23:38,665 --> 00:23:40,500
- [both chuckle]
- 390
- 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:42,831
- As I was saying,
- 391
- 00:23:42,833 --> 00:23:46,498
- both your parents are a great
- source of inspiration to me.
- 392
- 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:48,750
- My mother died
- when I was ten days old.
- 393
- 00:23:49,625 --> 00:23:51,708
- I'm sorry, I had no idea.
- 394
- 00:23:52,915 --> 00:23:54,581
- Don't be sorry.
- 395
- 00:23:54,583 --> 00:23:56,291
- I love to talk about her.
- 396
- 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,415
- Even if I never truly knew her.
- 397
- 00:24:00,665 --> 00:24:04,413
- All of the contradictions
- she embodied.
- 398
- 00:24:04,415 --> 00:24:06,125
- All anyone ever talks about...
- 399
- 00:24:06,875 --> 00:24:09,498
- ...now is how she wanted
- to go off
- 400
- 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:12,831
- and live with a married man
- and his wife...
- 401
- 00:24:12,833 --> 00:24:14,541
- ...in a ménage à trois.
- 402
- 00:24:15,208 --> 00:24:16,625
- And what do you think about...
- 403
- 00:24:17,583 --> 00:24:19,081
- ...all that?
- 404
- 00:24:19,083 --> 00:24:20,791
- I have no problem with it.
- 405
- 00:24:22,458 --> 00:24:24,791
- People should live and love
- as they wish.
- 406
- 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,748
- But one thing I've never
- understood is...
- 407
- 00:24:28,750 --> 00:24:31,538
- ...why did two radicals
- such as your parents
- 408
- 00:24:31,540 --> 00:24:33,206
- succumb to marriage?
- 409
- 00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:35,375
- To legitimize me.
- 410
- 00:24:39,665 --> 00:24:40,665
- Meet me...
- 411
- 00:24:41,583 --> 00:24:42,583
- ...tomorrow.
- 412
- 00:24:43,708 --> 00:24:44,666
- Just tell me where.
- 413
- 00:24:48,708 --> 00:24:50,500
- There is a place I go alone.
- 414
- 00:24:52,583 --> 00:24:54,748
- I'm not sure
- what you'll make of it.
- 415
- 00:24:54,750 --> 00:24:57,248
- [delicate, dramatic music ♪]
- 416
- 00:24:57,250 --> 00:24:59,333
- My sanctuary of sorts.
- 417
- 00:25:01,665 --> 00:25:04,163
- [Shelley] Then it will
- be my sanctuary, too.
- 418
- 00:25:04,165 --> 00:25:07,875
- ♪ ♪
- 419
- 00:25:17,915 --> 00:25:19,582
- I come here whenever I can.
- 420
- 00:25:21,290 --> 00:25:23,290
- Just to feel her embrace.
- 421
- 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:28,581
- My father taught me to read...
- 422
- 00:25:28,583 --> 00:25:30,831
- ...by tracing the letters
- of her name.
- 423
- 00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:33,125
- [wind blowing]
- 424
- 00:25:35,208 --> 00:25:37,541
- I don't know what it is
- I'm waiting for here.
- 425
- 00:25:38,790 --> 00:25:42,540
- Maybe you're just waiting
- for someone to reach out and...
- 426
- 00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:45,788
- ...return your embrace.
- 427
- 00:25:45,790 --> 00:25:48,665
- ♪ ♪
- 428
- 00:25:51,958 --> 00:25:54,831
- [thunder rolling]
- [Mary panting]
- 429
- 00:25:54,833 --> 00:25:56,583
- I thought we would never
- escape the rain.
- 430
- 00:25:58,250 --> 00:26:01,663
- I think I'd rather suffer
- the deluge outside.
- 431
- 00:26:01,665 --> 00:26:03,538
- If God is everywhere,
- 432
- 00:26:03,540 --> 00:26:06,373
- then why must Man
- erect temples to Him?
- 433
- 00:26:06,375 --> 00:26:08,163
- Because it is your imagination
- 434
- 00:26:08,165 --> 00:26:10,206
- that is the instrument
- of moral good,
- 435
- 00:26:10,208 --> 00:26:12,375
- not these four walls.
- 436
- 00:26:15,958 --> 00:26:18,748
- Let's see if the Great Creator
- strikes us down.
- 437
- 00:26:18,750 --> 00:26:20,040
- [grunts]
- 438
- 00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:27,498
- You shall fear
- the Lord your God.
- 439
- 00:26:27,500 --> 00:26:29,663
- Thrones, altars...
- 440
- 00:26:29,665 --> 00:26:31,373
- ...judgement seats,
- and prisons,
- 441
- 00:26:31,375 --> 00:26:35,748
- they are all part of one
- gigantic, despotic system...
- 442
- 00:26:35,750 --> 00:26:39,833
- ...designed to crush
- the soul of Man.
- 443
- 00:26:41,333 --> 00:26:44,163
- Their empty covenant
- has no power over us.
- 444
- 00:26:44,165 --> 00:26:46,457
- ♪ ♪
- 445
- 00:26:47,415 --> 00:26:49,538
- I fear not of God,
- 446
- 00:26:49,540 --> 00:26:51,288
- or His henchmen on Earth.
- 447
- 00:26:51,290 --> 00:26:52,625
- Hmm.
- 448
- 00:26:54,833 --> 00:26:56,456
- [distant thud]
- 449
- 00:26:56,458 --> 00:26:57,873
- Someone's here.
- 450
- 00:26:57,875 --> 00:26:59,873
- [distant thud]
- 451
- 00:26:59,875 --> 00:27:01,663
- Percy.
- 452
- 00:27:01,665 --> 00:27:02,707
- Percy.
- 453
- 00:27:04,625 --> 00:27:07,083
- [Shelley] So the Judgement
- Day is upon us already.
- 454
- 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:10,125
- [Deacon]
- Hello?
- 455
- 00:27:13,250 --> 00:27:14,665
- Is anyone there?
- 456
- 00:27:16,125 --> 00:27:17,873
- [laughing quietly]
- 457
- 00:27:17,875 --> 00:27:20,833
- ♪ ♪
- 458
- 00:27:32,540 --> 00:27:35,790
- [music swells ♪]
- 459
- 00:27:49,708 --> 00:27:50,748
- [music fades]
- 460
- 00:27:50,750 --> 00:27:54,331
- Oh, Mr. Shelley,
- it is a real book.
- 461
- 00:27:54,333 --> 00:27:58,581
- Your name looks so good
- in that gold typeface.
- 462
- 00:27:58,583 --> 00:27:59,748
- I'm sure it will be
- more popular
- 463
- 00:27:59,750 --> 00:28:02,165
- than your treatise
- on the virtues of atheism.
- 464
- 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:05,748
- [Godwin] Ghost stories and romance
- novels might sell, my dear,
- 465
- 00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:07,373
- but it's books that
- challenge the common doctrine
- 466
- 00:28:07,375 --> 00:28:10,873
- and superstition
- that will truly endure.
- 467
- 00:28:10,875 --> 00:28:13,663
- We rely on brave works
- like this
- 468
- 00:28:13,665 --> 00:28:16,498
- to push the world out of
- its misery and delusion.
- 469
- 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:17,833
- Well done, sir.
- 470
- 00:28:18,790 --> 00:28:20,832
- I hope you like it,
- Miss Godwin.
- 471
- 00:28:22,790 --> 00:28:24,457
- I'm sure I will.
- 472
- 00:28:33,415 --> 00:28:34,957
- [Shelley, whispering]
- Read it when you're alone.
- 473
- 00:28:49,165 --> 00:28:51,038
- Oh, give it to me!
- [laughs]
- 474
- 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,913
- Give it to me.
- Please, Mary.
- 475
- 00:28:52,915 --> 00:28:54,415
- Mary.
- 476
- 00:28:55,708 --> 00:28:58,498
- "The sunlight clasp the Earth
- 477
- 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,998
- And the moonbeams
- kiss the sea
- 478
- 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,288
- What are
- all these kissings worth..."
- 479
- 00:29:03,290 --> 00:29:05,290
- [Claire]
- "If thou kiss not me?"
- 480
- 00:29:06,583 --> 00:29:07,791
- [Harriet]
- Miss Godwin?
- 481
- 00:29:08,583 --> 00:29:09,706
- Yes?
- 482
- 00:29:09,708 --> 00:29:11,498
- [people chattering]
- 483
- 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:15,248
- I am Mrs. Shelley.
- Harriet Shelley.
- 484
- 00:29:15,250 --> 00:29:18,956
- And this is Ianthe,
- our daughter.
- 485
- 00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:22,250
- [quiet, dramatic music ♪]
- 486
- 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:28,498
- How can I help you,
- Mrs. Shelley?
- 487
- 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,625
- I am searching for my husband.
- 488
- 00:29:33,583 --> 00:29:34,833
- He's not here.
- 489
- 00:29:35,790 --> 00:29:37,875
- My father works alone today.
- 490
- 00:29:38,875 --> 00:29:41,123
- I cannot help you any further.
- 491
- 00:29:41,125 --> 00:29:42,665
- Miss Godwin!
- 492
- 00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:47,415
- Stay away from Percy.
- 493
- 00:29:50,165 --> 00:29:54,998
- I have not seen him in weeks
- but I have heard rumors.
- 494
- 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,248
- Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
- would be impervious to gossip?
- 495
- 00:29:59,250 --> 00:30:02,958
- Evidently you are a stranger
- to scandal, Miss Godwin.
- 496
- 00:30:05,583 --> 00:30:08,708
- Did you know I ran away
- with Percy when I was a girl?
- 497
- 00:30:10,375 --> 00:30:13,625
- Idealism and love
- give us courage.
- 498
- 00:30:14,915 --> 00:30:16,831
- But they do not prepare you
- for the sacrifice
- 499
- 00:30:16,833 --> 00:30:19,250
- required to love a man
- like Percy.
- 500
- 00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:25,831
- Your husband
- is my father's student.
- 501
- 00:30:25,833 --> 00:30:27,000
- Nothing more.
- 502
- 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,288
- If I see Mr. Shelley,
- 503
- 00:30:29,290 --> 00:30:31,250
- I will let him know
- you are looking for him.
- 504
- 00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:34,500
- Goodbye, Mrs. Shelley.
- 505
- 00:30:36,165 --> 00:30:38,707
- ♪ ♪
- 506
- 00:30:41,833 --> 00:30:44,083
- [bell on door chimes]
- 507
- 00:30:48,083 --> 00:30:49,625
- Claire?
- 508
- 00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:53,458
- [music fades]
- 509
- 00:31:04,290 --> 00:31:06,250
- Your wife is very pretty,
- Mr. Shelley.
- 510
- 00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:08,958
- I didn't know you were married.
- 511
- 00:31:10,625 --> 00:31:11,750
- Yes.
- 512
- 00:31:14,208 --> 00:31:17,291
- Yes, I've been married
- for five years now.
- 513
- 00:31:18,625 --> 00:31:20,040
- [Mrs. Godwin]
- Well, well.
- 514
- 00:31:21,540 --> 00:31:23,250
- We look forward
- to meeting Mrs. Shelley.
- 515
- 00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:27,038
- Perhaps she would like to
- join us for dinner one evening?
- 516
- 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,163
- [Shelley] Your offer is
- most kind, Mrs. Godwin.
- 517
- 00:31:29,165 --> 00:31:32,706
- However, Mrs. Shelley and I
- are man and wife in name...
- 518
- 00:31:32,708 --> 00:31:33,956
- ...only.
- 519
- 00:31:33,958 --> 00:31:35,623
- I continue to provide
- for Harriet
- 520
- 00:31:35,625 --> 00:31:39,038
- and my daughter Ianthe
- financially but that is all.
- 521
- 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,498
- It is an intolerable tyranny...
- 522
- 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:44,873
- ...to bind husband and wife
- to cohabitation
- 523
- 00:31:44,875 --> 00:31:47,915
- after the decay
- of their affection.
- 524
- 00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:50,790
- Yeah.
- 525
- 00:31:52,125 --> 00:31:54,875
- I remember saying something
- like that when I was young.
- 526
- 00:32:02,750 --> 00:32:04,998
- How could you do such a thing?
- 527
- 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,123
- - What did I do?
- - You told her.
- 528
- 00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:09,915
- I had to.
- 529
- 00:32:23,415 --> 00:32:26,538
- How could you not speak
- of Harriet and Ianthe?
- 530
- 00:32:26,540 --> 00:32:28,206
- My marriage was a mistake.
- 531
- 00:32:28,208 --> 00:32:31,373
- I believed that I'd found
- in Harriet a kindred spirit.
- 532
- 00:32:31,375 --> 00:32:33,998
- But time revealed only
- an empty, heartless cynicism
- 533
- 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,373
- that consumed the both of us
- in a spiral of hate and anguish.
- 534
- 00:32:38,375 --> 00:32:39,375
- But when I met you...
- 535
- 00:32:40,833 --> 00:32:44,038
- ...for the first time since
- my marriage, I felt alive.
- 536
- 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,538
- And had you known
- I was married,
- 537
- 00:32:46,540 --> 00:32:48,373
- propriety would have gotten
- the better of you.
- 538
- 00:32:48,375 --> 00:32:50,206
- Propriety has never
- been a concern of mine.
- 539
- 00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:51,956
- I promise you it can
- be very easy to say that,
- 540
- 00:32:51,958 --> 00:32:54,873
- but it can be very different
- to live it.
- 541
- 00:32:54,875 --> 00:32:56,123
- Which is what I challenge you
- to do now.
- 542
- 00:32:56,125 --> 00:32:57,498
- You challenge me to what?
- 543
- 00:32:57,500 --> 00:32:58,706
- - To do what-
- - Shh!
- 544
- 00:32:58,708 --> 00:33:01,413
- To do what your heart
- is telling you to do
- 545
- 00:33:01,415 --> 00:33:03,873
- and to come away with me.
- 546
- 00:33:03,875 --> 00:33:05,790
- And let us both find...
- 547
- 00:33:07,250 --> 00:33:10,206
- ...new air to fill our lungs.
- 548
- 00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:12,250
- [quiet, dramatic music ♪]
- 549
- 00:33:13,250 --> 00:33:15,750
- A new sun to warm our faces.
- 550
- 00:33:16,875 --> 00:33:23,081
- See a new life that is
- actually worth the living...
- 551
- 00:33:23,083 --> 00:33:24,333
- ...together.
- 552
- 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,913
- [Mary] The air in this
- house was stifling
- 553
- 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:40,163
- long before Shelley,
- 554
- 00:33:40,165 --> 00:33:42,163
- but the fact
- that he comes here every day
- 555
- 00:33:42,165 --> 00:33:44,288
- makes it even less bearable.
- 556
- 00:33:44,290 --> 00:33:46,581
- ♪ ♪
- 557
- 00:33:46,583 --> 00:33:48,625
- Feels like I'm suffocating.
- 558
- 00:33:50,458 --> 00:33:52,208
- I just want to get away.
- 559
- 00:33:55,290 --> 00:33:57,125
- [Claire]
- At least you went to Scotland.
- 560
- 00:33:57,958 --> 00:33:59,583
- I've never been anywhere.
- 561
- 00:34:03,165 --> 00:34:05,625
- Next time we'll
- go somewhere together.
- 562
- 00:34:08,041 --> 00:34:10,496
- We'll set off around the world,
- 563
- 00:34:10,498 --> 00:34:12,123
- just you and me.
- 564
- 00:34:13,666 --> 00:34:16,539
- And we'll meet amazing people
- 565
- 00:34:16,541 --> 00:34:18,833
- and go to wonderful places.
- 566
- 00:34:19,958 --> 00:34:21,706
- And none of this,
- 567
- 00:34:21,708 --> 00:34:24,749
- or any of these people,
- will matter at all.
- 568
- 00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,291
- They won't mean a thing.
- 569
- 00:34:30,333 --> 00:34:31,791
- I promise.
- 570
- 00:34:32,748 --> 00:34:35,748
- I can't imagine anything
- more wonderful.
- 571
- 00:34:36,791 --> 00:34:38,621
- [chatter]
- 572
- 00:34:38,623 --> 00:34:44,246
- [clock tower bell ringing]
- 573
- 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:46,164
- Done so soon, Mr. Shelley?
- 574
- 00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:47,956
- I thought you and Mr. Godwin
- would be working
- 575
- 00:34:47,958 --> 00:34:49,746
- through the afternoon.
- 576
- 00:34:49,748 --> 00:34:51,871
- I'm afraid I don't feel up
- to much of anything today,
- 577
- 00:34:51,873 --> 00:34:53,332
- Mrs. Godwin.
- 578
- 00:35:04,833 --> 00:35:06,206
- Mr. Shelley seems
- to be suffering
- 579
- 00:35:06,208 --> 00:35:08,708
- from some sort of
- emotional anguish.
- 580
- 00:35:10,833 --> 00:35:13,456
- Perhaps he was disappointed
- to find that...
- 581
- 00:35:13,458 --> 00:35:16,206
- ...you do not cultivate the
- same public feats of wantonness
- 582
- 00:35:16,208 --> 00:35:18,291
- as your dear departed mother.
- 583
- 00:35:19,541 --> 00:35:22,956
- I would ask that you not
- speak ill of my mother.
- 584
- 00:35:22,958 --> 00:35:24,291
- Oh, but of course.
- 585
- 00:35:25,166 --> 00:35:27,873
- How dare anyone utter one
- word out of turn
- 586
- 00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:30,375
- about a deceased person
- of such eminent merit?
- 587
- 00:35:31,750 --> 00:35:35,206
- At least you have not inherited
- that strange deficit of hers.
- 588
- 00:35:35,208 --> 00:35:36,414
- That foolish impulsiveness
- 589
- 00:35:36,416 --> 00:35:38,916
- which mistook wretchedness
- with emancipation.
- 590
- 00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:44,206
- I have inherited nothing
- but a fire in my soul
- 591
- 00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:46,331
- and I will no longer allow you,
- 592
- 00:35:46,333 --> 00:35:48,456
- or anyone else, to contain it.
- 593
- 00:35:48,458 --> 00:35:51,456
- Are you really involved
- with that whoremonger?
- 594
- 00:35:51,458 --> 00:35:54,289
- I hope those rumors
- prove to be false.
- 595
- 00:35:54,291 --> 00:35:56,914
- Just when we have found
- an avenue for our salvation,
- 596
- 00:35:56,916 --> 00:36:00,331
- you go and turn our fortunes
- into yet another scandal.
- 597
- 00:36:00,333 --> 00:36:03,831
- Do you believe I care at all
- for my reputation?
- 598
- 00:36:03,833 --> 00:36:05,414
- Or yours?
- 599
- 00:36:05,416 --> 00:36:08,873
- I fear nothing but letting
- your meaningless words
- 600
- 00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:11,541
- scare me away from my desires.
- 601
- 00:36:15,250 --> 00:36:17,456
- [panting]
- 602
- 00:36:17,458 --> 00:36:21,500
- [dramatic music ♪]
- 603
- 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,831
- [Shelley, voiceover]
- The sunlight clasps the Earth
- 604
- 00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:40,581
- And the moonbeams
- kiss the sea
- 605
- 00:36:40,583 --> 00:36:43,206
- What are
- all these kissings worth
- 606
- 00:36:43,208 --> 00:36:46,166
- If thou kiss not me?
- 607
- 00:36:52,333 --> 00:36:57,250
- ♪ ♪
- 608
- 00:36:59,416 --> 00:37:00,291
- [Shelley]
- Mary.
- 609
- 00:37:17,833 --> 00:37:20,456
- What do you mean?
- But you're already married.
- 610
- 00:37:20,458 --> 00:37:21,708
- We love each other.
- 611
- 00:37:22,541 --> 00:37:24,456
- We don't need to be married.
- 612
- 00:37:24,458 --> 00:37:25,539
- [Mrs. Godwin]
- I told you your warped ideals
- 613
- 00:37:25,541 --> 00:37:26,623
- would come back to haunt us.
- 614
- 00:37:26,625 --> 00:37:27,873
- Mrs. Godwin, please.
- 615
- 00:37:27,875 --> 00:37:30,331
- We are only living
- by your beliefs.
- 616
- 00:37:30,333 --> 00:37:31,998
- - Your principles.
- - What do you know of living your beliefs?
- 617
- 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,331
- You had no problem
- with my mother
- 618
- 00:37:33,333 --> 00:37:34,539
- wanting to live
- out of wedlock.
- 619
- 00:37:34,541 --> 00:37:35,873
- [Godwin]
- Do you really think
- 620
- 00:37:35,875 --> 00:37:38,166
- you can withstand
- the consequences of this?
- 621
- 00:37:39,125 --> 00:37:42,708
- Your mother was tortured
- by her impulses.
- 622
- 00:37:44,166 --> 00:37:46,498
- The very passions she thought
- were holding her together
- 623
- 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:51,331
- were working just as
- diligently to tear her apart.
- 624
- 00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:54,248
- Don't let them get the better
- of you, Mary.
- 625
- 00:37:54,250 --> 00:37:57,206
- And you forget whatever fantasy
- you've woven with my daughter.
- 626
- 00:37:57,208 --> 00:37:58,414
- Are you really suggesting
- 627
- 00:37:58,416 --> 00:38:01,956
- I could only be with your
- daughter if we were married?
- 628
- 00:38:01,958 --> 00:38:03,373
- How dare you?
- 629
- 00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:05,664
- Come into my house,
- you accept my hospitality
- 630
- 00:38:05,666 --> 00:38:07,956
- and seduce
- my 16 year old daughter!
- 631
- 00:38:07,958 --> 00:38:09,498
- Is it not you
- accepting my money?
- 632
- 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:10,708
- Go back to your wife!
- 633
- 00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:14,456
- Never set foot
- in this house again.
- 634
- 00:38:14,458 --> 00:38:17,081
- My love, I will return for you.
- 635
- 00:38:17,083 --> 00:38:19,873
- ♪ ♪
- 636
- 00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:23,789
- If you ever
- see Mr. Shelley again,
- 637
- 00:38:23,791 --> 00:38:27,000
- prepare to lose the love
- of a father, forever.
- 638
- 00:38:29,041 --> 00:38:31,291
- [music fades]
- 639
- 00:38:45,916 --> 00:38:46,750
- [Claire, whispering]
- Mary!
- 640
- 00:38:49,958 --> 00:38:51,333
- Mary!
- 641
- 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,748
- Don't look back, Mary.
- 642
- 00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:57,458
- Remember, once you are gone...
- 643
- 00:38:58,250 --> 00:38:59,748
- ...none of this,
- 644
- 00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:02,708
- or any of these people,
- will matter at all.
- 645
- 00:39:04,458 --> 00:39:07,291
- But please, Mary,
- take me with you.
- 646
- 00:39:08,250 --> 00:39:10,916
- You promised next time
- we would go together.
- 647
- 00:39:24,541 --> 00:39:27,041
- [dog barking]
- 648
- 00:39:31,500 --> 00:39:33,623
- [carriage approaching]
- 649
- 00:39:33,625 --> 00:39:35,664
- I hope I haven't kept you
- waiting long!
- 650
- 00:39:35,666 --> 00:39:39,375
- [mysterious, dramatic music]
- 651
- 00:39:46,666 --> 00:39:48,498
- I guess you come as a pair.
- 652
- 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,456
- I couldn't leave her.
- 653
- 00:39:50,458 --> 00:39:51,873
- [Shelley]
- Come!
- 654
- 00:39:51,875 --> 00:39:53,039
- [Mary]
- Where are we going?
- 655
- 00:39:53,041 --> 00:39:54,789
- To St. Pancras.
- 656
- 00:39:54,791 --> 00:39:57,664
- ♪ ♪
- 657
- 00:39:57,666 --> 00:39:59,208
- [laughing]
- 658
- 00:40:03,666 --> 00:40:05,458
- [joyful screaming]
- 659
- 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:07,625
- Ladies.
- 660
- 00:40:10,125 --> 00:40:11,706
- It's down here.
- 661
- 00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:12,708
- [laughs]
- 662
- 00:40:13,250 --> 00:40:14,333
- [Mary squeals]
- 663
- 00:40:17,833 --> 00:40:18,833
- Thank you.
- 664
- 00:40:20,541 --> 00:40:21,373
- Oh!
- 665
- 00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:24,123
- [gentle, dramatic music ♪]
- 666
- 00:40:24,125 --> 00:40:27,289
- It is temporary, of course.
- 667
- 00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:29,083
- [Claire]
- Well, where will I sleep?
- 668
- 00:40:30,625 --> 00:40:32,456
- Try through there.
- 669
- 00:40:32,458 --> 00:40:33,750
- [chuckles]
- 670
- 00:40:38,750 --> 00:40:40,666
- I am going to find us
- a house...
- 671
- 00:40:41,666 --> 00:40:44,500
- ...and I intend it
- to be perfect.
- 672
- 00:40:45,458 --> 00:40:47,250
- It already is perfect.
- 673
- 00:40:48,625 --> 00:40:49,708
- I have you.
- 674
- 00:40:51,416 --> 00:40:54,041
- Wherever we're together
- is where I belong.
- 675
- 00:41:05,625 --> 00:41:07,458
- Are you sure, Mary?
- 676
- 00:41:08,708 --> 00:41:10,958
- Only if you are ready,
- my love.
- 677
- 00:41:17,541 --> 00:41:20,666
- [airy, dramatic music ♪]
- 678
- 00:41:24,833 --> 00:41:27,875
- ♪ ♪
- 679
- 00:41:38,916 --> 00:41:41,498
- [Mary, voiceover] I'm free
- to write what I please.
- 680
- 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:42,789
- Like a torrent of light
- 681
- 00:41:42,791 --> 00:41:44,664
- poured into a dark world.
- 682
- 00:41:44,666 --> 00:41:47,664
- All around me I see bliss,
- 683
- 00:41:47,666 --> 00:41:49,373
- 'cause I now know what it is
- to love...
- 684
- 00:41:49,375 --> 00:41:50,414
- [Shelley, voiceover]
- Its very essence is liberty.
- 685
- 00:41:50,416 --> 00:41:52,581
- [Mary, voiceover]
- ...and be loved.
- 686
- 00:41:52,583 --> 00:41:54,748
- [Shelley, voiceover] It is comparable
- neither with obedience, jealousy nor fear.
- 687
- 00:41:54,750 --> 00:41:59,748
- It is there, most pure,
- perfect and unlimited.
- 688
- 00:41:59,750 --> 00:42:02,623
- ...close round the dying girl.
- 689
- 00:42:02,625 --> 00:42:04,498
- [pretending to choke]
- 690
- 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:08,539
- Out and in they hurry and spin
- 691
- 00:42:08,541 --> 00:42:12,414
- and dance, through the dance.
- 692
- 00:42:12,416 --> 00:42:16,748
- They dance
- through the weary Whirl.
- 693
- 00:42:16,750 --> 00:42:19,998
- Patience, patience,
- though my heart is breaking.
- 694
- 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,581
- God, there is no
- question-making
- 695
- 00:42:22,583 --> 00:42:26,414
- of thy body thou art
- quit and free.
- 696
- 00:42:26,416 --> 00:42:31,041
- Heaven keep thy soul eternally!
- 697
- 00:42:36,083 --> 00:42:38,666
- I trust you've enjoyed
- the last of the claret?
- 698
- 00:42:43,083 --> 00:42:47,041
- Would it be unwise to ask how
- it went today?
- 699
- 00:42:49,416 --> 00:42:50,875
- My publishers are fools.
- 700
- 00:42:53,791 --> 00:42:55,623
- Don't let them upset you.
- 701
- 00:42:55,625 --> 00:42:57,873
- They're not worth it.
- 702
- 00:42:57,875 --> 00:43:00,083
- But their advance is worth
- everything, Mary.
- 703
- 00:43:04,958 --> 00:43:06,625
- My father has cut me off.
- 704
- 00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:09,998
- He says I've disgraced
- his name
- 705
- 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,873
- because of the scandal
- that surrounds us.
- 706
- 00:43:15,875 --> 00:43:16,666
- So now you know.
- 707
- 00:43:25,541 --> 00:43:27,541
- [crowd chattering]
- 708
- 00:43:37,166 --> 00:43:39,500
- [Godwin] This one. Is
- that of any interest?
- 709
- 00:43:40,625 --> 00:43:41,416
- No?
- 710
- 00:43:42,666 --> 00:43:44,750
- Not interested in those.
- What else do you have?
- 711
- 00:43:46,833 --> 00:43:49,498
- Well, 'Iliad' by Homer
- in the original Greek.
- 712
- 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:50,333
- Father?
- 713
- 00:43:52,291 --> 00:43:53,583
- It's been weeks.
- 714
- 00:43:58,791 --> 00:43:59,791
- You're selling it?
- 715
- 00:44:00,875 --> 00:44:03,206
- Yes. There comes a time
- when we all
- 716
- 00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:06,250
- have to let go of the
- things we hold dear.
- 717
- 00:44:16,166 --> 00:44:20,039
- It's your decision, Mary,
- and you must live with it.
- 718
- 00:44:20,041 --> 00:44:22,833
- He claims to love humanity
- yet forsakes his child.
- 719
- 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:28,791
- I wish nothing more than that
- you should thrive.
- 720
- 00:44:30,791 --> 00:44:33,041
- But, look at you.
- 721
- 00:44:37,166 --> 00:44:40,041
- [Vendor]
- So, do you want to sell it?
- 722
- 00:44:45,125 --> 00:44:46,458
- No.
- 723
- 00:45:00,708 --> 00:45:02,081
- [Shelley]
- Erasmus Darwin once wrote...
- 724
- 00:45:02,083 --> 00:45:03,789
- [Claire]
- Who is Erasmus Darwin?
- 725
- 00:45:03,791 --> 00:45:05,873
- [Shelley]
- A poet and a physician.
- 726
- 00:45:05,875 --> 00:45:08,833
- He once wrote that a man who has never
- tried an experiment in his life is a fool.
- 727
- 00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:15,291
- [faint conversation]
- 728
- 00:45:18,125 --> 00:45:19,414
- [Shelley]
- ...on my sister's cat.
- 729
- 00:45:19,416 --> 00:45:21,248
- [Claire] Oh Shelley, you didn't!
- [giggles]
- 730
- 00:45:21,250 --> 00:45:24,373
- [Shelley] No, I didn't. I have
- the claw marks to prove it.
- 731
- 00:45:24,375 --> 00:45:25,541
- [laughter]
- 732
- 00:45:26,791 --> 00:45:27,791
- What's going on?
- 733
- 00:45:28,875 --> 00:45:30,539
- I remembered a debt unpaid.
- 734
- 00:45:30,541 --> 00:45:32,748
- I know how much
- you love science, Mary.
- 735
- 00:45:32,750 --> 00:45:34,581
- Watch this.
- 736
- 00:45:34,583 --> 00:45:36,958
- [laughs]
- 737
- 00:45:39,958 --> 00:45:41,041
- [Mary]
- This is incredible.
- 738
- 00:45:43,333 --> 00:45:45,539
- [Shelley]
- And this is for you.
- 739
- 00:45:45,541 --> 00:45:47,416
- [Mary]
- Shelley.
- 740
- 00:45:50,583 --> 00:45:52,748
- You shouldn't have spent
- money on dresses.
- 741
- 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,331
- Don't be silly, Mary,
- it's beautiful.
- 742
- 00:45:56,333 --> 00:45:57,873
- That is not all.
- 743
- 00:45:57,875 --> 00:46:02,831
- Tomorrow we move to our
- new house in Bloomsbury.
- 744
- 00:46:02,833 --> 00:46:06,081
- - The servants will meet us there.
- - Servants!
- 745
- 00:46:06,083 --> 00:46:08,748
- Because how can we write if
- we are forced to tend
- 746
- 00:46:08,750 --> 00:46:10,873
- to such domestic mundanities
- 747
- 00:46:10,875 --> 00:46:12,458
- as the shopping
- and the cleaning.
- 748
- 00:46:13,958 --> 00:46:16,875
- You make everything
- seem possible.
- 749
- 00:46:25,625 --> 00:46:29,831
- - It's a step up from St. Pancras.
- - Welcome home, Mary.
- 750
- 00:46:29,833 --> 00:46:31,331
- [giggles]
- Stop.
- 751
- 00:46:31,333 --> 00:46:33,956
- [laughs]
- 752
- 00:46:33,958 --> 00:46:34,875
- Wait for me!
- 753
- 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,125
- Come on.
- 754
- 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:43,041
- [dramatic, romantic music ♪]
- 755
- 00:46:44,625 --> 00:46:46,666
- [soft moaning]
- 756
- 00:46:59,291 --> 00:47:00,833
- [Mary, voiceover] A day
- devoted to love and idleness
- 757
- 00:47:02,750 --> 00:47:07,998
- but despite my earthly paradise I
- feel a frustration born of guilt.
- 758
- 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,208
- A constant whisper that I am no
- closer to achieving my dreams.
- 759
- 00:47:13,750 --> 00:47:14,583
- Excuse me,
- 760
- 00:47:15,458 --> 00:47:16,791
- are you the poet Shelley?
- 761
- 00:47:18,125 --> 00:47:20,914
- Yes. Yes, I am.
- 762
- 00:47:20,916 --> 00:47:24,123
- - Would you sign my pocketbook?
- - Of course.
- 763
- 00:47:24,125 --> 00:47:25,375
- Our friends will be
- terribly jealous.
- 764
- 00:47:27,041 --> 00:47:27,916
- There.
- 765
- 00:47:30,125 --> 00:47:31,000
- Well, have a good day.
- 766
- 00:47:33,833 --> 00:47:36,041
- [Mary]
- My love, I have news.
- 767
- 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,291
- Oh, my Mary. Hey, a baby.
- 768
- 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:45,958
- What news!
- 769
- 00:47:46,833 --> 00:47:48,291
- - You're happy?
- - Of course I'm happy.
- 770
- 00:47:49,875 --> 00:47:50,958
- Why? Aren't you?
- 771
- 00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:57,248
- I've never had a mother.
- What if I fail?
- 772
- 00:47:57,250 --> 00:47:59,208
- You think we can only learn
- by example?
- 773
- 00:48:00,666 --> 00:48:05,289
- What of pure instinct? Of the
- inherent good that lies in all of us?
- 774
- 00:48:05,291 --> 00:48:08,498
- And that, my darling,
- you have in abundance.
- 775
- 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:11,498
- - As will our little girl.
- - You think it's a girl?
- 776
- 00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:14,041
- She will be our
- very own prodigy.
- 777
- 00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:16,250
- [Harriet]
- Ianthe, come here.
- 778
- 00:48:18,208 --> 00:48:19,250
- Good girl.
- 779
- 00:48:21,541 --> 00:48:24,583
- [quiet, melancholy music ♪]
- 780
- 00:48:32,583 --> 00:48:33,875
- Come, we have to go.
- 781
- 00:48:35,083 --> 00:48:35,916
- Now.
- 782
- 00:48:47,541 --> 00:48:50,748
- [Claire's voice, echoing] Take
- me with you, please, take me.
- 783
- 00:48:50,750 --> 00:48:52,831
- Please, Mary,
- take me with you.
- 784
- 00:48:52,833 --> 00:48:54,998
- Take me with you.
- 785
- 00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:01,789
- ♪ ♪
- 786
- 00:49:01,791 --> 00:49:05,083
- [Baby crying]
- 787
- 00:49:13,208 --> 00:49:14,208
- There is someone in my room.
- 788
- 00:49:15,166 --> 00:49:16,541
- Someone? Did you see him?
- 789
- 00:49:17,708 --> 00:49:20,000
- No. They...
- 790
- 00:49:24,333 --> 00:49:28,248
- - No one, nothing.
- - [Mary] It's one of your nightmares, Claire.
- 791
- 00:49:28,250 --> 00:49:31,623
- - I will sit with her.
- - [Shelley] No, no, I will take her to bed.
- 792
- 00:49:31,625 --> 00:49:35,458
- You need to rest. Think of the baby.
- Claire, come on.
- 793
- 00:49:36,416 --> 00:49:39,458
- [quiet, mysterious music ♪]
- 794
- 00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:14,833
- She sleeps. Finally.
- 795
- 00:50:15,291 --> 00:50:16,873
- [birds chirping]
- 796
- 00:50:16,875 --> 00:50:18,125
- And you should, too.
- 797
- 00:50:24,125 --> 00:50:25,208
- I love you, Mary.
- 798
- 00:50:31,875 --> 00:50:32,748
- [dishes clattering]
- 799
- 00:50:32,750 --> 00:50:33,706
- Allow me to do it.
- 800
- 00:50:33,708 --> 00:50:35,206
- [laughter]
- 801
- 00:50:35,208 --> 00:50:36,750
- [Claire]
- Absolutely no clue.
- 802
- 00:50:38,166 --> 00:50:40,123
- [Shelley] I can't tell if you're
- telling the truth or not.
- 803
- 00:50:40,125 --> 00:50:41,539
- [Claire]
- I am telling the truth.
- 804
- 00:50:41,541 --> 00:50:42,539
- [Shelley] Who's paying for it?
- I'm paying for it?
- 805
- 00:50:42,541 --> 00:50:43,998
- [Claire]
- No.
- 806
- 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:46,248
- [Shelley] You're gonna ruin me, Claire
- Clairmont. You're gonna ruin me.
- 807
- 00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:50,164
- - [Mary] What's all this for?
- - Oh, there you are. Guess what.
- 808
- 00:50:50,166 --> 00:50:52,750
- Tonight we are having
- a dinner party.
- 809
- 00:50:56,583 --> 00:50:59,664
- Come here. Don't we deserve
- a little fun?
- 810
- 00:50:59,666 --> 00:51:05,206
- My dear, dear friend Thomas Hogg is in town
- and has just published his first book.
- 811
- 00:51:05,208 --> 00:51:08,581
- So I thought we would throw
- him a party to celebrate.
- 812
- 00:51:08,583 --> 00:51:10,831
- Ma'am, how many guests are we
- expecting this evening?
- 813
- 00:51:10,833 --> 00:51:12,831
- Maybe 10.
- 814
- 00:51:12,833 --> 00:51:15,956
- 10 or 12?
- 815
- 00:51:15,958 --> 00:51:17,248
- 12.
- 816
- 00:51:17,250 --> 00:51:19,500
- Did the publisher's advance
- come in?
- 817
- 00:51:23,166 --> 00:51:25,414
- I borrowed against
- my father's estate.
- 818
- 00:51:25,416 --> 00:51:28,289
- Percy, there's no way we can
- afford to pay it back.
- 819
- 00:51:28,291 --> 00:51:31,750
- Come on... come here. Come.
- 820
- 00:51:34,458 --> 00:51:36,289
- [laughing]
- 821
- 00:51:36,291 --> 00:51:42,083
- [chattering]
- 822
- 00:51:46,958 --> 00:51:49,958
- I'm sorry it's not much of
- a celebration, Mr Hogg.
- 823
- 00:51:52,333 --> 00:51:54,831
- It appears we're even more
- scandalous than we realized.
- 824
- 00:51:54,833 --> 00:51:56,206
- Don't trouble yourself, Mary.
- 825
- 00:51:56,208 --> 00:51:59,539
- Shelley and I have a long
- history of courting trouble.
- 826
- 00:51:59,541 --> 00:52:02,081
- We began writing a novel
- together back at Oxford but
- 827
- 00:52:02,083 --> 00:52:03,581
- publishers deemed it
- too subversive.
- 828
- 00:52:03,583 --> 00:52:07,289
- We had more success with our
- treatise which we wrote anonymously:
- 829
- 00:52:07,291 --> 00:52:09,539
- 'The Necessity of Atheism'.
- 830
- 00:52:09,541 --> 00:52:12,748
- - Because it was published?
- - Because it resulted in our expulsion from Oxford.
- 831
- 00:52:12,750 --> 00:52:14,664
- [laughter]
- 832
- 00:52:14,666 --> 00:52:17,623
- I'm beginning to suspect you have
- a penchant for being anonymous.
- 833
- 00:52:17,625 --> 00:52:21,706
- What's the point of being published if you
- don't have your name on it? Why bother?
- 834
- 00:52:21,708 --> 00:52:23,708
- I assume you also write?
- 835
- 00:52:25,333 --> 00:52:27,248
- It's not anything
- like my parents.
- 836
- 00:52:27,250 --> 00:52:30,916
- Soon Mary will produce a work
- that will surpass all of us.
- 837
- 00:52:32,666 --> 00:52:33,956
- How about you,
- Miss Clairmont?
- 838
- 00:52:33,958 --> 00:52:37,081
- Do you write or are there
- other tricks you perform?
- 839
- 00:52:37,083 --> 00:52:39,498
- I have my own talents.
- 840
- 00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:42,998
- - Claire is an accomplished singer.
- - So she says.
- 841
- 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,539
- I'm yet to hear it.
- 842
- 00:52:45,541 --> 00:52:46,916
- [Hogg]
- Will you sing for us?
- 843
- 00:52:48,333 --> 00:52:53,623
- I will sing, and if you
- happen to overhear
- 844
- 00:52:53,625 --> 00:52:55,789
- I suppose,
- it can't be helped.
- 845
- 00:52:55,791 --> 00:52:59,250
- She has spirit this one,
- I can see why you keep her.
- 846
- 00:53:01,291 --> 00:53:06,123
- ♪ A sweet scented courtier did
- give me a kiss ♪
- 847
- 00:53:06,125 --> 00:53:10,289
- ♪ And promised me rightly that
- I would be his ♪
- 848
- 00:53:10,291 --> 00:53:13,581
- ♪ But I'll not believe him for
- it is too true ♪
- 849
- 00:53:13,583 --> 00:53:17,414
- ♪ Courtiers promise much more
- than they do ♪
- 850
- 00:53:17,416 --> 00:53:22,748
- ♪ My thing is my own
- That I'll keep it so still ♪
- 851
- 00:53:22,750 --> 00:53:26,666
- ♪ Other young lassies can do
- what they will ♪
- 852
- 00:53:29,708 --> 00:53:30,458
- [door knocks]
- 853
- 00:53:32,250 --> 00:53:35,623
- Ma'am, Mr. Hogg...
- is here to see you.
- 854
- 00:53:35,625 --> 00:53:36,500
- Mr. Hogg?
- 855
- 00:53:37,458 --> 00:53:38,416
- Thank you, Eliza.
- 856
- 00:53:41,291 --> 00:53:45,331
- Shelley will be sorry to have missed you.
- Would you care to wait?
- 857
- 00:53:45,333 --> 00:53:46,208
- I should like that very much,
- Mary.
- 858
- 00:53:47,333 --> 00:53:49,208
- - Are you hungry?
- - I'm fine, thank you.
- 859
- 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:52,039
- You're writing?
- 860
- 00:53:52,041 --> 00:53:56,706
- Ledgers. But it might
- as well be Latin.
- 861
- 00:53:56,708 --> 00:54:01,248
- - Are you schooled in Latin?
- - Yes, my father insisted upon it.
- 862
- 00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:03,081
- Why don't you sit down?
- 863
- 00:54:03,083 --> 00:54:05,333
- I fear my Latin is not what
- it was when I was at Oxford.
- 864
- 00:54:07,791 --> 00:54:10,166
- May I...
- practice upon you Mary?
- 865
- 00:54:11,500 --> 00:54:13,458
- [Mary] I'm not sure I'd
- be of much use to you.
- 866
- 00:54:15,041 --> 00:54:17,331
- My mind is all over the place
- these days.
- 867
- 00:54:17,333 --> 00:54:20,164
- [quiet, ominous music ♪]
- 868
- 00:54:20,166 --> 00:54:23,458
- Perhaps you should practice
- upon me.
- 869
- 00:54:29,541 --> 00:54:32,706
- [Claire] I cannot believe you fired
- the servant for that, Shelley.
- 870
- 00:54:32,708 --> 00:54:34,248
- Who do you think you are?
- 871
- 00:54:34,250 --> 00:54:35,041
- [laughter]
- 872
- 00:54:37,500 --> 00:54:39,333
- [laughter]
- 873
- 00:54:42,625 --> 00:54:43,708
- Mary?
- 874
- 00:54:45,833 --> 00:54:47,666
- What's wrong?
- Is it the baby?
- 875
- 00:54:48,625 --> 00:54:51,291
- Claire, could you
- please leave us?
- 876
- 00:55:00,958 --> 00:55:02,291
- Hogg came to the house.
- 877
- 00:55:04,458 --> 00:55:05,458
- And then
- 878
- 00:55:08,458 --> 00:55:13,289
- - ...he made an advance, but I didn't, I-
- - So you did not comply?
- 879
- 00:55:13,291 --> 00:55:17,539
- Of course not.
- I would never-
- 880
- 00:55:17,541 --> 00:55:20,248
- Mary. Hey.
- 881
- 00:55:20,250 --> 00:55:24,208
- I have no quarrel with you
- and Thomas becoming lovers.
- 882
- 00:55:25,916 --> 00:55:27,375
- Isn't this what
- we believe in?
- 883
- 00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:30,250
- Unconventional approaches
- to living?
- 884
- 00:55:31,666 --> 00:55:34,956
- After all, why should we not have such
- an arrangement? I do not own you.
- 885
- 00:55:34,958 --> 00:55:37,041
- You are free to be with
- whomever you please.
- 886
- 00:55:38,625 --> 00:55:40,666
- Oh, but I don't want to be
- with anyone else.
- 887
- 00:55:42,583 --> 00:55:45,956
- Don't you believe that love
- is free?
- 888
- 00:55:45,958 --> 00:55:52,498
- - Yes. Free to be with one person...
- - That is poor logic, Mary.
- 889
- 00:55:52,500 --> 00:55:54,373
- Your choice means
- nothing to me.
- 890
- 00:55:54,375 --> 00:55:57,500
- What disappoints me is that
- you wouldn't even consider it.
- 891
- 00:56:00,458 --> 00:56:02,414
- Leads me to question how much
- you value your beliefs
- 892
- 00:56:02,416 --> 00:56:07,123
- when you will not
- attempt to live them.
- 893
- 00:56:07,125 --> 00:56:13,623
- I believe, with all my heart, there
- are all sorts of ways of living.
- 894
- 00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:16,833
- And I will fight for anyone's
- right to live accordingly.
- 895
- 00:56:18,666 --> 00:56:22,458
- But my truth is that there
- is no one else for me.
- 896
- 00:56:30,291 --> 00:56:32,375
- Do you wish to be with
- someone else?
- 897
- 00:56:34,041 --> 00:56:38,333
- I merely suggest that you do not offer
- me the same freedoms I offer you.
- 898
- 00:56:41,541 --> 00:56:44,666
- You're a hypocrite.
- Like your father.
- 899
- 00:56:47,375 --> 00:56:52,458
- And you are nothing close to the
- man that I thought you were.
- 900
- 00:57:04,625 --> 00:57:09,581
- [Mary, voiceover] Wanting for my 'happily
- ever after', I lowered my defenses
- 901
- 00:57:09,583 --> 00:57:11,208
- forgetting the first lesson
- I was taught:
- 902
- 00:57:12,250 --> 00:57:14,581
- that I was brought into this
- world to be abandoned.
- 903
- 00:57:14,583 --> 00:57:16,500
- That I am irrevocably alone.
- 904
- 00:57:20,291 --> 00:57:22,333
- [pencil writing]
- 905
- 00:57:29,875 --> 00:57:30,623
- [knock on the door]
- 906
- 00:57:30,625 --> 00:57:34,250
- [dramatic, melancholy music ♪]
- 907
- 00:57:36,041 --> 00:57:36,958
- [Shelley]
- Mary.
- 908
- 00:57:45,583 --> 00:57:46,916
- Are you not cold, Mary?
- 909
- 00:57:49,291 --> 00:57:51,208
- My hypocrisy keeps me warm.
- 910
- 00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,083
- As does my cloak
- of disappointment.
- 911
- 00:57:55,791 --> 00:57:58,789
- I'm going to tell Hogg not to
- call here again.
- 912
- 00:57:58,791 --> 00:58:00,666
- I already told him
- with my fist.
- 913
- 00:58:02,958 --> 00:58:04,666
- You have to understand,
- Mary, that...
- 914
- 00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:11,500
- ...I have always
- lived this way... to a fault.
- 915
- 00:58:14,875 --> 00:58:19,375
- And I thought this was
- something we both believed in.
- 916
- 00:58:22,958 --> 00:58:24,625
- An ideal we shared.
- 917
- 00:58:26,750 --> 00:58:31,206
- But had I truly considered it, and I let
- myself fully understand what I was doing
- 918
- 00:58:31,208 --> 00:58:37,416
- I would never let anything...
- anything come between us.
- 919
- 00:58:43,250 --> 00:58:44,541
- I have a surprise for you.
- 920
- 00:58:47,416 --> 00:58:48,458
- We're going out.
- 921
- 00:58:51,333 --> 00:58:52,125
- [door knocks]
- 922
- 00:58:54,833 --> 00:58:55,916
- Well, what are
- you waiting for?
- 923
- 00:58:59,916 --> 00:59:01,583
- [chatter]
- 924
- 00:59:03,916 --> 00:59:06,748
- Phantasmagoria. Starring
- 925
- 00:59:06,750 --> 00:59:08,625
- Claire Clairmont,
- yours truly.
- 926
- 00:59:11,375 --> 00:59:12,625
- It's Lord Byron.
- 927
- 00:59:14,875 --> 00:59:16,041
- Let us go and talk to him.
- 928
- 00:59:18,833 --> 00:59:20,041
- Lord Byron!
- 929
- 00:59:23,500 --> 00:59:24,373
- My Lord...
- 930
- 00:59:24,375 --> 00:59:27,331
- may I introduce to you
- the poet
- 931
- 00:59:27,333 --> 00:59:31,623
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and a
- great admirer of your work.
- 932
- 00:59:31,625 --> 00:59:33,083
- I know Mr. Shelley.
- 933
- 00:59:33,708 --> 00:59:35,414
- I enjoyed "Queen Mab".
- 934
- 00:59:35,416 --> 00:59:38,500
- - Credit to you.
- - Thank you.
- 935
- 00:59:46,250 --> 00:59:50,125
- And now our final act,
- Mr. Brycison the Galvanizer.
- 936
- 00:59:51,833 --> 00:59:56,789
- Who amongst you has ever wondered
- if the dead could return to life?
- 937
- 00:59:56,791 --> 01:00:03,333
- Thanks to scientific discovery, mankind
- is on the cusp of conquering mortality.
- 938
- 01:00:07,583 --> 01:00:10,750
- Using this frog
- and an electrical current
- 939
- 01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:21,458
- I will demonstrate how muscular stimulation
- is possible via electrical means.
- 940
- 01:00:23,041 --> 01:00:28,708
- Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce
- you to the process of galvanism.
- 941
- 01:00:29,208 --> 01:00:30,414
- [crowd gasps]
- 942
- 01:00:30,416 --> 01:00:32,458
- [airy, dramatic music ♪]
- 943
- 01:00:42,833 --> 01:00:46,625
- ♪ ♪
- 944
- 01:01:32,208 --> 01:01:36,831
- Is that really possible? That the
- dead could come back to life?
- 945
- 01:01:36,833 --> 01:01:38,375
- There is every possibility.
- 946
- 01:01:39,541 --> 01:01:41,375
- That has brought you
- back to life.
- 947
- 01:01:48,750 --> 01:01:53,956
- Oh, Clara, you are
- so beautiful... and tiny.
- 948
- 01:01:53,958 --> 01:01:56,166
- Did you ever see
- such tiny hands?
- 949
- 01:01:57,625 --> 01:01:59,123
- She's so beautiful.
- 950
- 01:01:59,125 --> 01:02:01,708
- Almost as beautiful as you,
- my love.
- 951
- 01:02:03,208 --> 01:02:04,875
- Mary, can I get you anything?
- 952
- 01:02:05,791 --> 01:02:07,250
- I have all I need.
- 953
- 01:02:09,541 --> 01:02:11,583
- And what a trio we will be.
- 954
- 01:02:13,875 --> 01:02:15,166
- Yes, she agrees.
- 955
- 01:02:16,500 --> 01:02:18,875
- [Shelley] You agree?
- We're gonna be a trio.
- 956
- 01:02:19,958 --> 01:02:23,123
- You're gonna be our special
- little prodigy. Yeah.
- 957
- 01:02:23,125 --> 01:02:26,250
- [light, mysterious music ♪]
- 958
- 01:02:47,916 --> 01:02:50,456
- [Mary singing quietly]
- 959
- 01:02:50,458 --> 01:02:53,956
- [Mary, voiceover] I can scarcely believe
- that one small being can be responsible
- 960
- 01:02:53,958 --> 01:02:54,958
- for such joy.
- 961
- 01:02:56,791 --> 01:02:59,956
- Is all that is truly required
- is that we live well, be happy,
- 962
- 01:02:59,958 --> 01:03:01,791
- and make others so?
- 963
- 01:03:03,750 --> 01:03:07,041
- ♪ Over the hills and far... ♪
- 964
- 01:03:10,625 --> 01:03:12,500
- She's sleeping.
- 965
- 01:03:14,208 --> 01:03:15,998
- [cooing]
- 966
- 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:22,666
- [rainfall]
- 967
- 01:03:35,125 --> 01:03:36,458
- We must leave at once.
- 968
- 01:03:37,291 --> 01:03:38,166
- What do you mean?
- 969
- 01:03:39,958 --> 01:03:41,000
- What has happened?
- 970
- 01:03:42,375 --> 01:03:43,416
- Creditors are coming.
- 971
- 01:03:45,250 --> 01:03:48,039
- - Percy. Clara's not well.
- - Mary, we do not have time to discuss this.
- 972
- 01:03:48,041 --> 01:03:49,789
- It's raining outside.
- [door banging]
- 973
- 01:03:49,791 --> 01:03:52,998
- We can't take her. The doctor
- said she must keep warm.
- 974
- 01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,456
- [Clara crying]
- We have no choice.
- 975
- 01:03:54,458 --> 01:03:55,623
- Claire, are you ready?
- 976
- 01:03:55,625 --> 01:03:57,539
- Percy.
- 977
- 01:03:57,541 --> 01:04:00,039
- Eliza,
- do not tell them anything.
- 978
- 01:04:00,041 --> 01:04:01,539
- Claire.
- 979
- 01:04:01,541 --> 01:04:03,998
- [dramatic music ♪]
- [pounding on the door]
- 980
- 01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,750
- Mary. Come.
- 981
- 01:04:07,958 --> 01:04:08,916
- Please.
- 982
- 01:04:15,375 --> 01:04:17,000
- We must get back
- to St. Pancras.
- 983
- 01:04:18,250 --> 01:04:19,375
- They won't find us there.
- 984
- 01:04:23,125 --> 01:04:23,958
- Mary!
- 985
- 01:04:24,583 --> 01:04:26,039
- [Clara coughing]
- 986
- 01:04:26,041 --> 01:04:27,125
- Mary, please.
- 987
- 01:04:36,916 --> 01:04:38,958
- [Clara crying, coughing]
- 988
- 01:04:39,833 --> 01:04:42,875
- ♪ ♪
- 989
- 01:04:46,958 --> 01:04:48,625
- She needs shelter now.
- 990
- 01:05:00,750 --> 01:05:03,791
- [silence]
- 991
- 01:05:11,958 --> 01:05:12,750
- [Shelley, whispering]
- Mary...
- 992
- 01:05:14,875 --> 01:05:17,458
- it breaks my heart to see you
- like this.
- 993
- 01:05:18,583 --> 01:05:23,750
- The doctor told you, Clara
- was never for this world.
- 994
- 01:05:26,291 --> 01:05:27,458
- What about your books?
- 995
- 01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,583
- I mean surely there is something
- you would like to read?
- 996
- 01:05:33,166 --> 01:05:34,625
- The books?
- 997
- 01:05:36,083 --> 01:05:39,125
- The books survived the
- creditors, didn't they?
- 998
- 01:05:41,166 --> 01:05:43,456
- I miss her, too, Mary.
- 999
- 01:05:43,458 --> 01:05:44,958
- Desperately.
- 1000
- 01:05:46,208 --> 01:05:49,833
- Desperately. But I don't
- want to lose you as well.
- 1001
- 01:05:57,375 --> 01:05:58,791
- Leave me alone.
- 1002
- 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:08,875
- [fire crackling]
- 1003
- 01:06:26,333 --> 01:06:30,789
- [church bells]
- 1004
- 01:06:30,791 --> 01:06:33,125
- [melancholy dramatic music ♪]
- 1005
- 01:06:40,833 --> 01:06:43,664
- [Shelley, voiceover] Rose
- leaves, when the rose is dead
- 1006
- 01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:47,500
- Are heaped
- for the beloved's bed
- 1007
- 01:06:48,500 --> 01:06:52,831
- And so thy thoughts
- When thou art gone
- 1008
- 01:06:52,833 --> 01:06:57,875
- Love itself shall slumber on
- 1009
- 01:07:03,750 --> 01:07:08,498
- [Mary, voiceover] ♪ Tommy
- was a piper's son ♪
- 1010
- 01:07:08,500 --> 01:07:14,081
- ♪ He learned to play
- when he was young ♪
- 1011
- 01:07:14,083 --> 01:07:21,289
- ♪ The only tune
- that he could play ♪
- 1012
- 01:07:21,291 --> 01:07:24,248
- [baby wails]
- 1013
- 01:07:24,250 --> 01:07:27,041
- [dramatic music swells ♪]
- 1014
- 01:08:27,248 --> 01:08:30,455
- [Mary, voiceover] You'll come
- to me in dreams, my love.
- 1015
- 01:08:30,457 --> 01:08:32,457
- I will not ask a
- dearer bliss.
- 1016
- 01:08:39,123 --> 01:08:41,166
- I dreamed of her last night.
- 1017
- 01:08:42,041 --> 01:08:48,164
- That we lit a fire in the fireplace and the
- fire's warmth nursed her back to life.
- 1018
- 01:08:48,166 --> 01:08:49,166
- [door creaks]
- 1019
- 01:08:50,916 --> 01:08:54,333
- [Claire] My love, I haven't
- seen you smile at me in weeks.
- 1020
- 01:08:55,541 --> 01:08:57,083
- [Man] Oh, Claire.
- 1021
- 01:09:17,707 --> 01:09:22,621
- - He invited you to Geneva?
- - No, Mary. Lord Byron has invited us.
- 1022
- 01:09:22,623 --> 01:09:26,166
- - Us?
- - You, me and Shelley. All of us.
- 1023
- 01:09:27,457 --> 01:09:30,415
- Do you think you are the only
- one who can attract a poet?
- 1024
- 01:09:32,291 --> 01:09:37,458
- No, Claire. In fact I am
- very aware of your abilities.
- 1025
- 01:09:41,248 --> 01:09:43,957
- But... we have to go.
- 1026
- 01:09:45,707 --> 01:09:46,873
- I am pregnant.
- 1027
- 01:09:51,498 --> 01:09:52,748
- Who's the father?
- 1028
- 01:09:55,582 --> 01:09:59,250
- Mary. Mary, it is Byron's,
- of course.
- 1029
- 01:10:02,375 --> 01:10:05,498
- I've been meeting him in secret
- for quite some time now.
- 1030
- 01:10:05,500 --> 01:10:07,455
- Don't you see?
- 1031
- 01:10:07,457 --> 01:10:11,164
- Geneva will give me the chance to talk
- to him, away from the crowds of London.
- 1032
- 01:10:11,166 --> 01:10:14,455
- I mean you, of all people, should
- know that this city loves a scandal.
- 1033
- 01:10:14,457 --> 01:10:16,289
- [footsteps approaching]
- 1034
- 01:10:16,291 --> 01:10:19,625
- Shelley, we've been invited
- to Geneva by Lord Byron.
- 1035
- 01:10:21,250 --> 01:10:24,080
- Lord Byron? Oh my word!
- 1036
- 01:10:24,082 --> 01:10:26,414
- This is
- an unmissable opportunity.
- 1037
- 01:10:26,416 --> 01:10:30,373
- This could help us immensely.
- Um...
- 1038
- 01:10:30,375 --> 01:10:32,416
- - [Claire speaks indistinctly]
- - I'm not ready for this.
- 1039
- 01:10:36,166 --> 01:10:37,205
- Mary.
- 1040
- 01:10:37,207 --> 01:10:41,415
- Percy, I don't think I'm
- ready for this. Please.
- 1041
- 01:10:42,916 --> 01:10:45,416
- - Not yet.
- - Oh, Mary, I miss her too.
- 1042
- 01:10:46,707 --> 01:10:49,750
- Oh,
- I wish I could have saved her.
- 1043
- 01:10:52,666 --> 01:10:55,333
- I'm not asking you to let go
- of her, Mary.
- 1044
- 01:10:56,332 --> 01:10:58,832
- I'm just asking you to raise
- above your grief.
- 1045
- 01:11:00,082 --> 01:11:03,750
- To raise her spirit to the
- great heights she deserves.
- 1046
- 01:11:14,416 --> 01:11:17,500
- [children playing
- in the distance]
- 1047
- 01:11:28,416 --> 01:11:31,541
- [dramatic music ♪]
- 1048
- 01:11:52,457 --> 01:11:53,540
- Thank you.
- 1049
- 01:11:57,207 --> 01:11:59,705
- I was surprised to hear you
- were staying here?
- 1050
- 01:11:59,707 --> 01:12:01,539
- Most tourists come to gawk at
- the place.
- 1051
- 01:12:01,541 --> 01:12:04,914
- We've become accustomed to prying eyes
- ourselves. I'm sure we'll manage.
- 1052
- 01:12:04,916 --> 01:12:06,208
- Mr. Shelley!
- 1053
- 01:12:22,250 --> 01:12:25,666
- It is a pleasure to make
- your acquaintance once more.
- 1054
- 01:12:28,250 --> 01:12:32,998
- I received Miss Clairmont's letter yesterday
- alerting me of this impending arrival.
- 1055
- 01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:38,457
- My Lord, it is an honor. And may I
- introduce Miss Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin?
- 1056
- 01:12:42,541 --> 01:12:43,583
- Miss Godwin.
- 1057
- 01:12:45,375 --> 01:12:50,248
- Forgive me but there is a smile
- hidden inside of you, I can see it.
- 1058
- 01:12:50,250 --> 01:12:55,039
- And it is
- beautiful and brutal.
- 1059
- 01:12:55,041 --> 01:12:58,748
- And I hope that before long I
- can coax it outside of you.
- 1060
- 01:12:58,750 --> 01:13:01,457
- And there she is.
- 1061
- 01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:05,080
- My Lord.
- 1062
- 01:13:05,082 --> 01:13:07,082
- Claire.
- 1063
- 01:13:08,125 --> 01:13:10,166
- [giggles]
- 1064
- 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,705
- Claire, I must remember next time
- that to mention travel plans to you
- 1065
- 01:13:17,707 --> 01:13:18,914
- is tantamount
- to an invitation.
- 1066
- 01:13:18,916 --> 01:13:23,998
- My Lord, I apologize. I fear
- there's been some confusion.
- 1067
- 01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,998
- If our visit is an imposition,
- we will seek lodging elsewhere.
- 1068
- 01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,498
- Please, don't concern yourselves.
- You must stay here as my guest.
- 1069
- 01:13:29,500 --> 01:13:30,623
- Things have been getting
- bloody boring round here and I
- 1070
- 01:13:30,625 --> 01:13:32,330
- will be grateful
- for the distraction.
- 1071
- 01:13:32,332 --> 01:13:36,789
- In fact there is the Duke of
- Dulldom himself, Doctor Polidori.
- 1072
- 01:13:36,791 --> 01:13:37,625
- Come with me.
- 1073
- 01:13:40,500 --> 01:13:43,541
- ♪ ♪
- 1074
- 01:13:44,625 --> 01:13:46,623
- Doctor Polidori, Miss Godwin.
- 1075
- 01:13:46,625 --> 01:13:47,541
- She doesn't smile.
- 1076
- 01:13:48,500 --> 01:13:49,875
- Charmed, Miss Godwin.
- 1077
- 01:13:51,916 --> 01:13:54,583
- [laughter]
- 1078
- 01:13:59,832 --> 01:14:01,125
- Don't embarrass the servants.
- 1079
- 01:14:02,082 --> 01:14:05,539
- Are you a Doctor of Science,
- Doctor Polidori?
- 1080
- 01:14:05,541 --> 01:14:09,414
- - I'm sorry, but I'm a physician.
- - Science fascinates Mary.
- 1081
- 01:14:09,416 --> 01:14:11,498
- Why is being a physician disappointing.
- You save lives.
- 1082
- 01:14:11,500 --> 01:14:13,205
- You bring babies
- into the world.
- 1083
- 01:14:13,207 --> 01:14:15,039
- You help poets with their
- sleeping disorders.
- 1084
- 01:14:15,041 --> 01:14:17,830
- Doctor Polidori wrote
- his thesis on the subject.
- 1085
- 01:14:17,832 --> 01:14:20,750
- And, conveniently, I've become quite
- the somnambulist in his presence.
- 1086
- 01:14:22,332 --> 01:14:25,330
- Well, I hope we can liven things
- up for you a little, My Lord.
- 1087
- 01:14:25,332 --> 01:14:27,415
- I'm sure you will try,
- Miss Clairmont.
- 1088
- 01:14:29,750 --> 01:14:31,705
- Would you like to join me in
- the parlor, Mr. Shelley?
- 1089
- 01:14:31,707 --> 01:14:33,000
- Of course.
- 1090
- 01:14:37,875 --> 01:14:39,998
- Perhaps you'll be more
- comfortable conversing with
- 1091
- 01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:41,916
- Claire and Doctor Polidori,
- my love.
- 1092
- 01:14:48,500 --> 01:14:49,375
- Byron...
- 1093
- 01:15:04,125 --> 01:15:07,330
- I must say,
- the decor is interesting.
- 1094
- 01:15:07,332 --> 01:15:10,748
- Byron likes to record
- his 'grand ideas'
- 1095
- 01:15:10,750 --> 01:15:12,955
- on slips of paper and tack
- them up on the wall.
- 1096
- 01:15:12,957 --> 01:15:14,623
- You should see the one
- in the parlor.
- 1097
- 01:15:14,625 --> 01:15:19,291
- Gets littered with paper when we have
- company, or when he's stimulated.
- 1098
- 01:15:19,875 --> 01:15:20,916
- [giggles]
- 1099
- 01:15:24,666 --> 01:15:27,708
- [airy, dramatic music ♪]
- 1100
- 01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,705
- [Byron]
- This is poetry, my brother.
- 1101
- 01:15:37,707 --> 01:15:42,205
- 'On Death' by the
- incomparable yours truly.
- 1102
- 01:15:42,207 --> 01:15:44,250
- Third stanza!
- Summon the muse.
- 1103
- 01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:49,623
- [imitating monkey]
- 1104
- 01:15:49,625 --> 01:15:53,205
- The world is the nurse
- of all we know
- 1105
- 01:15:53,207 --> 01:15:56,830
- This world the mother
- of all we feel
- 1106
- 01:15:56,832 --> 01:16:00,373
- And the coming of death
- is a fearful blow
- 1107
- 01:16:00,375 --> 01:16:04,123
- To the brain unencompassed
- with nerves of steel
- 1108
- 01:16:04,125 --> 01:16:05,539
- When all we know
- 1109
- 01:16:05,541 --> 01:16:07,955
- or feel
- or see
- 1110
- 01:16:07,957 --> 01:16:11,500
- Shall pass like an
- unreal mystery!
- 1111
- 01:16:13,791 --> 01:16:17,458
- [Polidori] I found this article and
- recalled your interest in science.
- 1112
- 01:16:24,791 --> 01:16:27,958
- Is this possible?
- Reanimation?
- 1113
- 01:16:29,791 --> 01:16:34,416
- That is the claim. Applying the principle
- of galvanism to human corpses.
- 1114
- 01:16:36,041 --> 01:16:38,583
- Every lady in the land
- knows this.
- 1115
- 01:16:39,707 --> 01:16:42,705
- She walks in beauty
- Like the night...
- 1116
- 01:16:42,707 --> 01:16:45,873
- of cloudless
- Climes and starry skies
- 1117
- 01:16:45,875 --> 01:16:48,873
- And all that's bright
- Of dark and light
- 1118
- 01:16:48,875 --> 01:16:50,123
- - What?!
- - Bright! Bright, bright, bright!
- 1119
- 01:16:50,125 --> 01:16:52,123
- All that's best of
- dark and bright
- 1120
- 01:16:52,125 --> 01:16:53,164
- Meet in the aspect
- of her eyes
- 1121
- 01:16:53,166 --> 01:16:54,580
- That's mellow to
- 1122
- 01:16:54,582 --> 01:16:57,455
- thy tender light Which
- heaven to gaudy day deny
- 1123
- 01:16:57,457 --> 01:16:59,415
- [Polidori] I was sorry
- to hear about your baby.
- 1124
- 01:17:04,250 --> 01:17:05,750
- Her name was Clara.
- 1125
- 01:17:07,041 --> 01:17:08,458
- I don't mean to upset you.
- 1126
- 01:17:09,791 --> 01:17:12,916
- No. No, you haven't at all.
- 1127
- 01:17:15,457 --> 01:17:17,415
- I thank you for speaking
- of her.
- 1128
- 01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:25,123
- It's an unspeakable cruelty
- for a woman to lose a child.
- 1129
- 01:17:25,125 --> 01:17:27,875
- I've seen it more times than
- I care to remember.
- 1130
- 01:17:30,666 --> 01:17:32,375
- I'm in awe of you,
- Miss Godwin
- 1131
- 01:17:32,957 --> 01:17:37,789
- and your strength
- to survive it.
- 1132
- 01:17:37,791 --> 01:17:38,708
- Drink!
- 1133
- 01:17:39,916 --> 01:17:41,541
- Drink. Drink.
- 1134
- 01:17:49,750 --> 01:17:51,875
- Why not?
- Why would I not be sure?
- 1135
- 01:18:06,375 --> 01:18:11,830
- It's called 'The Nightmare -
- The Curse Of The Incubus'.
- 1136
- 01:18:11,832 --> 01:18:16,875
- The Angel fallen from grace
- because of insatiable lust.
- 1137
- 01:18:19,291 --> 01:18:20,833
- You know the painter,
- don't you?
- 1138
- 01:18:22,832 --> 01:18:23,875
- Henry Fuseli.
- 1139
- 01:18:26,500 --> 01:18:28,207
- He was my mother's
- first love.
- 1140
- 01:18:29,500 --> 01:18:32,039
- She tried to kill herself
- with an overdose of laudanum
- 1141
- 01:18:32,041 --> 01:18:34,125
- when he left her for
- another woman.
- 1142
- 01:18:37,166 --> 01:18:40,498
- I've never reconciled how
- someone as strong as my mother
- 1143
- 01:18:40,500 --> 01:18:42,957
- was so vulnerable when it
- came to love.
- 1144
- 01:18:44,791 --> 01:18:51,414
- Love will find its way through paths
- where wolves would fear to prey.
- 1145
- 01:18:51,416 --> 01:18:54,333
- [Mary] But if she wasn't impervious
- to the pain of heartbreak
- 1146
- 01:18:55,666 --> 01:18:57,916
- what hope is there for the
- rest of us?
- 1147
- 01:19:00,582 --> 01:19:04,832
- The great art of
- life is sensation.
- 1148
- 01:19:05,957 --> 01:19:09,373
- To feel that you exist,
- even in pain.
- 1149
- 01:19:09,375 --> 01:19:10,666
- I mean would you
- not die for love?
- 1150
- 01:19:11,957 --> 01:19:16,250
- After all, what is life if it
- does not have love?
- 1151
- 01:19:17,916 --> 01:19:20,166
- Nothing,
- according to you poets.
- 1152
- 01:19:22,832 --> 01:19:23,875
- You are...
- 1153
- 01:19:27,666 --> 01:19:28,914
- I've always believed
- that a woman
- 1154
- 01:19:28,916 --> 01:19:33,205
- should be intelligent enough to
- understand what I'm saying but
- 1155
- 01:19:33,207 --> 01:19:39,080
- not intelligent enough to be able to
- form ideas or opinions of her own.
- 1156
- 01:19:39,082 --> 01:19:42,164
- You, Miss Godwin, have the
- chance to prove me wrong.
- 1157
- 01:19:42,166 --> 01:19:44,750
- [piano crash]
- 1158
- 01:19:46,125 --> 01:19:47,832
- Play us a tune, Shelley.
- 1159
- 01:19:55,375 --> 01:19:58,332
- [revelry]
- 1160
- 01:19:58,707 --> 01:19:59,414
- ♪ ♪
- 1161
- 01:19:59,416 --> 01:20:00,958
- [thunder]
- 1162
- 01:20:09,541 --> 01:20:13,833
- Oh, this infernal copying.
- I'm bored of it.
- 1163
- 01:20:14,916 --> 01:20:18,583
- I can't transcribe another
- word of these poems.
- 1164
- 01:20:25,332 --> 01:20:27,290
- It's been raining like this
- for weeks.
- 1165
- 01:20:28,125 --> 01:20:30,123
- We're all going to go insane.
- 1166
- 01:20:30,125 --> 01:20:32,498
- Can't anyone think of ways to
- pass the time?
- 1167
- 01:20:32,500 --> 01:20:35,957
- - Mary, please.
- - No. She's right.
- 1168
- 01:20:41,457 --> 01:20:42,414
- Listen.
- 1169
- 01:20:42,416 --> 01:20:45,458
- [wind howling]
- 1170
- 01:20:46,916 --> 01:20:49,958
- There are witches
- in the wind.
- 1171
- 01:20:52,250 --> 01:20:53,000
- I have an idea.
- 1172
- 01:20:57,541 --> 01:21:03,041
- We are, each one of us,
- to write a story.
- 1173
- 01:21:05,582 --> 01:21:06,540
- A ghost story.
- 1174
- 01:21:11,166 --> 01:21:12,248
- It's a competition,
- of course.
- 1175
- 01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:16,875
- Whoever writes the
- finest story shall win.
- 1176
- 01:21:21,582 --> 01:21:25,790
- [Lord Byron, voiceover]
- Miss Clairmont... you...
- 1177
- 01:21:26,957 --> 01:21:30,375
- ...your job is to
- transcribe them.
- 1178
- 01:21:32,375 --> 01:21:33,457
- How dare you?
- 1179
- 01:21:35,166 --> 01:21:39,500
- What right do you have to treat
- me like this? Your lover.
- 1180
- 01:21:41,332 --> 01:21:42,665
- Claire...
- 1181
- 01:21:45,375 --> 01:21:47,125
- ...you are not my lover.
- 1182
- 01:21:49,041 --> 01:21:50,625
- You are a dalliance.
- 1183
- 01:21:51,332 --> 01:21:53,165
- A lapse in judgement.
- 1184
- 01:21:54,707 --> 01:21:58,625
- A silly little girl.
- 1185
- 01:22:08,125 --> 01:22:10,041
- I'm sorry,
- have I caused a scene?
- 1186
- 01:22:14,832 --> 01:22:16,915
- [airy, dramatic music ♪]
- 1187
- 01:22:19,875 --> 01:22:23,125
- Sir, I have an urgent message
- arrived from London.
- 1188
- 01:22:29,916 --> 01:22:31,291
- Claire!
- 1189
- 01:22:46,041 --> 01:22:47,500
- Is everything alright, sir?
- 1190
- 01:22:58,625 --> 01:22:59,500
- Claire.
- 1191
- 01:23:01,291 --> 01:23:03,541
- Why,
- why must they be so vile?
- 1192
- 01:23:11,166 --> 01:23:13,708
- Don't let such
- cruelty wound you.
- 1193
- 01:23:14,791 --> 01:23:18,205
- You're stronger than you
- realize and you don't need
- 1194
- 01:23:18,207 --> 01:23:19,457
- anything from them.
- 1195
- 01:23:21,082 --> 01:23:23,080
- You don't need anything
- from them.
- 1196
- 01:23:23,082 --> 01:23:26,125
- ♪ ♪
- 1197
- 01:23:32,416 --> 01:23:33,875
- Thank you, Mary.
- 1198
- 01:24:05,291 --> 01:24:06,166
- [Byron]
- No!
- 1199
- 01:24:07,332 --> 01:24:09,000
- - I need to speak to you.
- - [Byron] No!
- 1200
- 01:24:34,332 --> 01:24:35,498
- [thunder]
- 1201
- 01:24:35,500 --> 01:24:40,541
- ♪ ♪
- 1202
- 01:25:26,166 --> 01:25:30,748
- [Mary, voiceover] I no longer see the
- world and its works as they before
- 1203
- 01:25:30,750 --> 01:25:32,166
- appeared to me.
- 1204
- 01:25:33,125 --> 01:25:34,125
- But now misery has come home...
- 1205
- 01:25:35,957 --> 01:25:41,332
- and men appear to me as monsters
- thirsting for each other's blood.
- 1206
- 01:25:43,332 --> 01:25:46,330
- And I, a miserable spectacle
- of wrecked humanity...
- 1207
- 01:25:46,332 --> 01:25:49,707
- pitiable to others and
- intolerable to myself.
- 1208
- 01:25:53,500 --> 01:25:55,080
- Has Claire risen?
- 1209
- 01:25:55,082 --> 01:25:58,040
- She sent down word. She is
- feeling unwell this morning.
- 1210
- 01:25:59,332 --> 01:26:00,582
- Where is Shelley?
- 1211
- 01:26:03,207 --> 01:26:04,498
- I had assumed
- he was with you.
- 1212
- 01:26:04,500 --> 01:26:06,414
- [Shelley stumbling]
- 1213
- 01:26:06,416 --> 01:26:07,458
- [laughter]
- 1214
- 01:26:08,457 --> 01:26:09,707
- I think we've found him.
- 1215
- 01:26:11,416 --> 01:26:13,291
- Mr. Shelley.
- 1216
- 01:26:15,500 --> 01:26:18,455
- You look like you could do
- with some breakfast.
- 1217
- 01:26:18,457 --> 01:26:19,207
- Do I?
- 1218
- 01:26:21,416 --> 01:26:22,914
- How were the taverns?
- 1219
- 01:26:22,916 --> 01:26:24,750
- Disgusting.
- 1220
- 01:26:26,832 --> 01:26:30,332
- I, uh,
- I started upon my story.
- 1221
- 01:26:31,375 --> 01:26:33,080
- I've called it 'The Vampyre'.
- 1222
- 01:26:33,082 --> 01:26:36,330
- Very well. Well we have our
- first story.
- 1223
- 01:26:36,332 --> 01:26:38,290
- A vampire.
- 1224
- 01:26:39,375 --> 01:26:43,164
- I thought the challenge
- was a-was a ghost story?
- 1225
- 01:26:43,166 --> 01:26:45,291
- Not a childish superstition.
- 1226
- 01:26:46,291 --> 01:26:48,705
- You do not believe in
- vampires, Mr. Shelley?
- 1227
- 01:26:48,707 --> 01:26:51,330
- No more than I believe
- in physicians.
- 1228
- 01:26:51,332 --> 01:26:53,125
- Percy, that's quite enough.
- 1229
- 01:27:00,457 --> 01:27:01,873
- I thought you would
- know intimately
- 1230
- 01:27:01,875 --> 01:27:05,750
- about the existence of nocturnal
- beings who exploit the vulnerable.
- 1231
- 01:27:13,666 --> 01:27:15,248
- [laughter]
- 1232
- 01:27:15,250 --> 01:27:18,582
- - Did you just slap him?
- - Madam, you have my sympathy.
- 1233
- 01:27:21,250 --> 01:27:25,875
- No story from Polidori.
- How disappointing.
- 1234
- 01:27:26,957 --> 01:27:29,415
- Whatever shall we do to
- entertain ourselves now?
- 1235
- 01:27:36,082 --> 01:27:37,707
- Well I'm going to go riding.
- 1236
- 01:27:42,291 --> 01:27:44,375
- I need something thick
- between my legs.
- 1237
- 01:27:48,375 --> 01:27:49,875
- What's wrong with you?
- 1238
- 01:27:50,750 --> 01:27:51,791
- You think I'm an idiot.
- 1239
- 01:27:52,916 --> 01:27:54,955
- Oh, you claim no interest
- in Hogg. That's alright.
- 1240
- 01:27:54,957 --> 01:27:56,455
- But the good doctor,
- 1241
- 01:27:56,457 --> 01:28:00,539
- oh yes, he's more to your
- liking, isn't he?
- 1242
- 01:28:00,541 --> 01:28:01,750
- Where were you all night?
- 1243
- 01:28:02,250 --> 01:28:05,125
- I do not have to justify
- myself to you or to anyone!
- 1244
- 01:28:06,416 --> 01:28:10,414
- - You have no idea the responsibilities I bear.
- - What responsibilities?
- 1245
- 01:28:10,416 --> 01:28:12,291
- She drowned herself, Mary.
- 1246
- 01:28:14,457 --> 01:28:18,539
- Threw herself in the filthy
- water at Battersea.
- 1247
- 01:28:18,541 --> 01:28:19,416
- Who?
- 1248
- 01:28:21,582 --> 01:28:22,957
- Harriet.
- 1249
- 01:28:25,041 --> 01:28:26,000
- My wife.
- 1250
- 01:28:26,582 --> 01:28:29,625
- [gentle, dramatic music ♪]
- 1251
- 01:28:39,416 --> 01:28:41,250
- It's time that we
- left this place.
- 1252
- 01:28:47,457 --> 01:28:48,623
- Claire?
- 1253
- 01:28:48,625 --> 01:28:50,291
- He doesn't want me.
- 1254
- 01:28:52,207 --> 01:28:53,623
- He said...
- 1255
- 01:28:53,625 --> 01:28:59,125
- he said that he will provide
- for the baby but that is all.
- 1256
- 01:29:06,416 --> 01:29:07,458
- [crying]
- 1257
- 01:29:08,832 --> 01:29:12,457
- It's been such a mistake.
- Mary.
- 1258
- 01:29:14,082 --> 01:29:15,457
- A mistake.
- 1259
- 01:29:15,916 --> 01:29:18,958
- ♪ ♪
- 1260
- 01:29:48,416 --> 01:29:50,250
- I wanted to say goodbye
- 1261
- 01:29:52,625 --> 01:29:56,291
- to thank you
- for your hospitality.
- 1262
- 01:30:00,166 --> 01:30:01,625
- I know what you
- must think of me
- 1263
- 01:30:03,582 --> 01:30:06,625
- but I have never considered
- myself one for fatherhood.
- 1264
- 01:30:08,416 --> 01:30:10,916
- I am under no illusions about
- your situation.
- 1265
- 01:30:12,707 --> 01:30:15,080
- Claire, unfortunately...
- 1266
- 01:30:15,082 --> 01:30:16,539
- I never loved her.
- 1267
- 01:30:16,541 --> 01:30:18,539
- Nor did I pretend
- to love her.
- 1268
- 01:30:18,541 --> 01:30:22,248
- Nor do I believe
- she loved me.
- 1269
- 01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:27,830
- But a man is a man,
- and a girl is a girl.
- 1270
- 01:30:27,832 --> 01:30:32,455
- And when a young girl comes prancing
- to an old man at all hours...
- 1271
- 01:30:32,457 --> 01:30:35,000
- ...there is but one way.
- 1272
- 01:30:36,541 --> 01:30:39,041
- There is always another way.
- 1273
- 01:30:41,625 --> 01:30:46,625
- And when we make such choices,
- there are inevitably consequences.
- 1274
- 01:31:09,125 --> 01:31:11,582
- Always see.
- 1275
- 01:31:18,625 --> 01:31:19,750
- Safe travels, Mary.
- 1276
- 01:31:21,625 --> 01:31:23,623
- I look forward to reading
- your work some day.
- 1277
- 01:31:23,625 --> 01:31:26,666
- ♪ ♪
- 1278
- 01:32:22,582 --> 01:32:26,040
- [Godwin, voiceover] Rid yourself of the
- thoughts and words of other people, Mary.
- 1279
- 01:32:29,375 --> 01:32:30,750
- Find your own voice.
- 1280
- 01:32:56,957 --> 01:33:00,832
- [Mary, voiceover] It was a
- dreary night of November and...
- 1281
- 01:33:02,750 --> 01:33:05,789
- It was a dreary night
- of November
- 1282
- 01:33:05,791 --> 01:33:09,789
- that I beheld the
- accomplishment of my toils.
- 1283
- 01:33:09,791 --> 01:33:14,164
- [dramatic music rising ♪]
- 1284
- 01:33:14,166 --> 01:33:16,708
- Remember that
- I am thy creature.
- 1285
- 01:33:18,332 --> 01:33:24,205
- I ought to be thy Adam but I
- am rather the fallen angel
- 1286
- 01:33:24,207 --> 01:33:27,582
- whom thou drivest from joy
- for no misdeed.
- 1287
- 01:33:31,166 --> 01:33:33,333
- Everywhere I see bliss...
- 1288
- 01:33:36,832 --> 01:33:37,707
- ...from which...
- 1289
- 01:33:38,416 --> 01:33:39,250
- [match strike]
- 1290
- 01:33:40,666 --> 01:33:45,833
- ...from which, from which I
- alone am irrevocably excluded.
- 1291
- 01:33:47,916 --> 01:33:52,958
- I was benevolent and good
- Misery made me a fiend
- 1292
- 01:33:53,916 --> 01:33:55,955
- Make me happy.
- 1293
- 01:33:55,957 --> 01:33:59,125
- And I shall again
- be virtuous.
- 1294
- 01:34:00,375 --> 01:34:02,625
- "But soon", he cried
- 1295
- 01:34:04,166 --> 01:34:05,583
- "I shall die
- 1296
- 01:34:06,791 --> 01:34:09,375
- and what I now feel be no
- longer felt.
- 1297
- 01:34:13,375 --> 01:34:14,750
- Soon...
- 1298
- 01:34:15,666 --> 01:34:19,875
- these burning miseries will
- be extinct.
- 1299
- 01:34:29,957 --> 01:34:34,790
- I shall ascend my funeral
- pyre triumphantly
- 1300
- 01:34:36,125 --> 01:34:40,166
- and exult in the agony of the
- torturing flames.
- 1301
- 01:34:41,500 --> 01:34:46,205
- My spirit will sleep in peace
- or if it thinks
- 1302
- 01:34:46,207 --> 01:34:49,165
- it will not surely
- think thus.
- 1303
- 01:34:51,582 --> 01:34:52,540
- Farewell."
- 1304
- 01:34:59,916 --> 01:35:02,166
- The End.
- 1305
- 01:36:06,916 --> 01:36:08,833
- [Shelley, whispering]
- Mary. Mary.
- 1306
- 01:36:13,291 --> 01:36:14,875
- It is magnificent.
- 1307
- 01:36:16,166 --> 01:36:19,914
- It exceeds even what I
- believed you capable of.
- 1308
- 01:36:19,916 --> 01:36:21,375
- It has so much potential.
- 1309
- 01:36:22,625 --> 01:36:23,957
- I just have one question.
- 1310
- 01:36:25,207 --> 01:36:28,373
- The doctor, he gets all
- these body parts
- 1311
- 01:36:28,375 --> 01:36:32,039
- and he sews them together in order
- to make the most perfect creature
- 1312
- 01:36:32,041 --> 01:36:36,248
- But when he brings it to life, essentially
- what he has created is a kind of monster.
- 1313
- 01:36:36,250 --> 01:36:37,082
- Yes.
- 1314
- 01:36:38,250 --> 01:36:42,039
- Well couldn't it be something
- more- something more hopeful?
- 1315
- 01:36:42,041 --> 01:36:46,791
- Imagine if he could create the
- perfect being. Um, an angel.
- 1316
- 01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:49,414
- An angel?!
- 1317
- 01:36:49,416 --> 01:36:52,998
- Yes, and in doing so he could
- show what Man can be.
- 1318
- 01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:56,498
- He creates a version of ourselves
- that shines with goodness
- 1319
- 01:36:56,500 --> 01:36:59,541
- and thus, thus delivers
- a message for mankind.
- 1320
- 01:37:00,832 --> 01:37:02,375
- It is a message for mankind.
- 1321
- 01:37:03,541 --> 01:37:06,998
- Well I, I mean a message of
- hope and of perfection.
- 1322
- 01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:11,332
- What would you- what would we
- know of hope and perfection?
- 1323
- 01:37:16,125 --> 01:37:17,082
- Look around you.
- 1324
- 01:37:19,041 --> 01:37:20,875
- Look at the mess we've made.
- 1325
- 01:37:22,416 --> 01:37:23,666
- Look at me.
- 1326
- 01:37:39,375 --> 01:37:40,875
- It makes sense this way.
- 1327
- 01:37:44,791 --> 01:37:48,958
- - I'll take it to my publisher and convince...
- - No. I will go alone.
- 1328
- 01:37:56,666 --> 01:37:57,916
- [door closes]
- 1329
- 01:38:01,791 --> 01:38:03,750
- [Publisher]
- You are how old, Miss Godwin?
- 1330
- 01:38:06,082 --> 01:38:07,165
- I am 18.
- 1331
- 01:38:08,041 --> 01:38:09,875
- [Publisher]
- That really is quite young.
- 1332
- 01:38:11,291 --> 01:38:15,998
- If I'm old enough to bear children,
- I'm old enough to put pen to paper.
- 1333
- 01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:19,873
- Curious subject matter for a
- young lady, wouldn't you say?
- 1334
- 01:38:19,875 --> 01:38:25,080
- And when that young lady just
- happens to be the wife, uh...
- 1335
- 01:38:25,082 --> 01:38:28,957
- companion of Mr. Shelley...
- 1336
- 01:38:31,500 --> 01:38:35,039
- Are you suggesting the work
- belongs to Mr. Shelley?
- 1337
- 01:38:35,041 --> 01:38:40,539
- Well, perhaps there are some other writings
- of yours that I could compare it to?
- 1338
- 01:38:40,541 --> 01:38:42,000
- It is my story.
- 1339
- 01:38:43,875 --> 01:38:46,955
- Did you ask this of Mr. Shelley when
- he first presented his work to you?
- 1340
- 01:38:46,957 --> 01:38:50,205
- Or do you save this insult
- for young women?
- 1341
- 01:38:50,207 --> 01:38:57,539
- And you dare to question a woman's
- ability to experience loss, death...
- 1342
- 01:38:57,541 --> 01:38:59,039
- ...betrayal.
- 1343
- 01:38:59,041 --> 01:39:03,916
- All of which is present in this story.
- In my story.
- 1344
- 01:39:05,250 --> 01:39:09,289
- Which you would have realized if you'd
- employed the time judging the work
- 1345
- 01:39:09,291 --> 01:39:10,833
- instead of judging me.
- 1346
- 01:39:16,250 --> 01:39:20,291
- [chatter]
- [carriage passing]
- 1347
- 01:39:25,125 --> 01:39:26,125
- [door closes]
- 1348
- 01:39:29,791 --> 01:39:30,833
- Did you finish it?
- 1349
- 01:39:33,082 --> 01:39:34,165
- Yes.
- 1350
- 01:39:35,707 --> 01:39:37,415
- It chilled me to the bone.
- 1351
- 01:39:40,125 --> 01:39:42,375
- It's good to enjoy a ghost
- story now and then.
- 1352
- 01:39:44,082 --> 01:39:46,165
- We both know this is
- no ghost story.
- 1353
- 01:39:49,916 --> 01:39:57,250
- I've never read such a perfect encapsulation
- of what it feels to be abandoned.
- 1354
- 01:40:00,082 --> 01:40:02,165
- I seethed with your
- monster's rage.
- 1355
- 01:40:04,207 --> 01:40:05,665
- I lusted for his revenge.
- 1356
- 01:40:08,916 --> 01:40:10,416
- Because it was my own.
- 1357
- 01:40:11,082 --> 01:40:14,125
- [gentle, dramatic music ♪]
- 1358
- 01:40:19,707 --> 01:40:21,289
- I wonder...
- 1359
- 01:40:21,291 --> 01:40:27,330
- ...how many souls will sympathize
- with your creature's torments?
- 1360
- 01:40:27,332 --> 01:40:30,082
- More than should, I expect.
- 1361
- 01:40:36,250 --> 01:40:37,750
- It is time I moved home.
- 1362
- 01:40:39,916 --> 01:40:42,916
- You must get your story
- published, Mary.
- 1363
- 01:40:50,166 --> 01:40:52,955
- [echoing voices] Dear Madam, thank
- you for sending us your manuscript,
- 1364
- 01:40:52,957 --> 01:40:55,039
- 'Frankenstein or
- A Modern Prometheus'.
- 1365
- 01:40:55,041 --> 01:40:58,248
- Unfortunately, this is not a
- piece that interests us.
- 1366
- 01:40:58,250 --> 01:41:01,580
- inform you that we shall not
- be publishing your manuscript.
- 1367
- 01:41:01,582 --> 01:41:03,164
- our taste in
- judgement alike revolts
- 1368
- 01:41:03,166 --> 01:41:06,539
- This subject is not to the taste of
- our readers from a female author.
- 1369
- 01:41:06,541 --> 01:41:10,789
- In fact, it strikes us as hardly an
- appropriate subject for a young lady
- 1370
- 01:41:10,791 --> 01:41:16,248
- We do not deny that the work has merit
- but we are cautious in proceeding.
- 1371
- 01:41:16,250 --> 01:41:20,125
- The truth is you have nowhere
- else to go with your story.
- 1372
- 01:41:40,750 --> 01:41:46,248
- The Lackington Group will publish it.
- 500 copies will be printed.
- 1373
- 01:41:46,250 --> 01:41:51,289
- It will be published anonymously,
- provided you write the introduction.
- 1374
- 01:41:51,291 --> 01:41:54,125
- Well of course.
- I'd be delighted.
- 1375
- 01:41:57,666 --> 01:41:59,205
- So everyone will think
- you wrote it.
- 1376
- 01:41:59,207 --> 01:42:01,457
- Provided it's published,
- what does it matter?
- 1377
- 01:42:03,957 --> 01:42:05,250
- What does it matter?
- 1378
- 01:42:07,332 --> 01:42:10,290
- How is it possible that you
- still don't understand?!
- 1379
- 01:42:11,416 --> 01:42:15,664
- You want me to abandon my claim because
- my gender might spoil its success.
- 1380
- 01:42:15,666 --> 01:42:17,664
- - I never said that.
- - You don't have to.
- 1381
- 01:42:17,666 --> 01:42:22,039
- Not once do you ever think about
- the consequences of your actions!
- 1382
- 01:42:22,041 --> 01:42:24,830
- You bear just as much
- responsibility for our life as I.
- 1383
- 01:42:24,832 --> 01:42:28,623
- I, I'm not the, some grand
- architect of our misery, Mary.
- 1384
- 01:42:28,625 --> 01:42:31,373
- You bear the responsibility.
- 1385
- 01:42:31,375 --> 01:42:34,791
- I bear the responsibility
- of ever believing in you!
- 1386
- 01:42:49,625 --> 01:42:55,539
- [banging]
- 1387
- 01:42:55,541 --> 01:43:00,583
- [melancholy music ♪]
- 1388
- 01:44:07,582 --> 01:44:11,580
- [thumping outside]
- 1389
- 01:44:11,582 --> 01:44:13,455
- [Polidori]
- ...thank you.
- 1390
- 01:44:13,457 --> 01:44:14,957
- John!
- 1391
- 01:44:23,082 --> 01:44:25,915
- - You look...
- - Like I've seen better days?
- 1392
- 01:44:27,541 --> 01:44:28,750
- Mr. Godwin said the same.
- 1393
- 01:44:29,582 --> 01:44:30,790
- You saw my father?
- 1394
- 01:44:33,125 --> 01:44:36,375
- Yes.
- His shop is stocking my work.
- 1395
- 01:44:37,416 --> 01:44:38,291
- You finished it.
- 1396
- 01:44:39,166 --> 01:44:40,083
- Not quite.
- 1397
- 01:44:42,625 --> 01:44:43,500
- Lord Byron!
- 1398
- 01:44:44,582 --> 01:44:45,789
- I'd all but forgotten
- about it until
- 1399
- 01:44:45,791 --> 01:44:49,500
- Byron's publisher somehow got a
- hold of it and printed it as his.
- 1400
- 01:44:51,250 --> 01:44:53,289
- I tried to assert my rights
- as the true author
- 1401
- 01:44:53,291 --> 01:44:56,248
- but in response I've only
- been called a plagiarist.
- 1402
- 01:44:56,250 --> 01:44:59,664
- I will write to Byron and appeal
- to him to tell the truth.
- 1403
- 01:44:59,666 --> 01:45:03,998
- He has already tried.
- He despises the story.
- 1404
- 01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:06,207
- The public just has no
- interest in the truth.
- 1405
- 01:45:07,582 --> 01:45:09,500
- What about your
- mysterious masterpiece?
- 1406
- 01:45:10,541 --> 01:45:11,833
- The absence of your
- name was notable.
- 1407
- 01:45:12,791 --> 01:45:14,083
- It is ironic, isn't it?
- 1408
- 01:45:15,875 --> 01:45:19,289
- I write a story lampooning Byron,
- the blood-sucking devourer of souls
- 1409
- 01:45:19,291 --> 01:45:21,414
- and he gets all the credit.
- 1410
- 01:45:21,416 --> 01:45:25,164
- While you wrote about a desperately
- lonely and abandoned creature.
- 1411
- 01:45:25,166 --> 01:45:28,580
- Abandoned by an irresponsible
- narcissist and She-
- 1412
- 01:45:28,582 --> 01:45:30,207
- Shelley gets all the credit.
- 1413
- 01:45:32,666 --> 01:45:35,208
- Nonetheless, congratulations.
- 1414
- 01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:38,207
- Shelley must be pleased.
- 1415
- 01:45:38,957 --> 01:45:40,790
- I haven't seen
- Shelley in months.
- 1416
- 01:45:48,582 --> 01:45:49,707
- It's for you.
- 1417
- 01:45:54,625 --> 01:45:56,750
- We have created monsters,
- Mary.
- 1418
- 01:45:58,541 --> 01:45:59,958
- But let's not let them
- devour us.
- 1419
- 01:46:31,082 --> 01:46:34,500
- [street chatter]
- 1420
- 01:46:49,332 --> 01:46:51,582
- [audience talking]
- 1421
- 01:47:04,250 --> 01:47:05,416
- [doorbell rings]
- 1422
- 01:47:20,541 --> 01:47:22,500
- Gentlemen, welcome. Thank
- you for coming.
- 1423
- 01:47:23,791 --> 01:47:30,664
- We're here to celebrate the success of
- 'Frankenstein; Or The Modern Prometheus'.
- 1424
- 01:47:30,666 --> 01:47:33,664
- It's a remarkable story
- asserting, as it does, the...
- 1425
- 01:47:33,666 --> 01:47:36,998
- absolute human necessity
- for connection.
- 1426
- 01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:39,998
- From the moment Doctor Frankenstein's
- creature opens its eyes
- 1427
- 01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:45,455
- it seeks the touch of its creator.
- But he recoils in terror
- 1428
- 01:47:45,457 --> 01:47:50,414
- leaving the creature to its first
- of many experiences of neglect
- 1429
- 01:47:50,416 --> 01:47:51,500
- and isolation.
- 1430
- 01:47:53,291 --> 01:47:56,666
- And if only Frankenstein had been
- able to bestow upon his creation
- 1431
- 01:47:58,125 --> 01:48:01,500
- a compassionate touch.
- A kind word.
- 1432
- 01:48:02,375 --> 01:48:04,000
- What a tragedy might have
- been avoided.
- 1433
- 01:48:05,375 --> 01:48:10,330
- But it is a credit to the writer
- that it is these very thoughts
- 1434
- 01:48:10,332 --> 01:48:13,205
- that continue to run through
- our minds long after we've
- 1435
- 01:48:13,207 --> 01:48:15,580
- turned the final page
- of this book
- 1436
- 01:48:15,582 --> 01:48:20,625
- which I know you all agree is
- one of the most complete and
- 1437
- 01:48:22,166 --> 01:48:25,541
- certainly one of the most
- original publications of our age.
- 1438
- 01:48:28,166 --> 01:48:29,125
- As...
- 1439
- 01:48:30,791 --> 01:48:32,458
- [crowd applauding]
- 1440
- 01:48:37,416 --> 01:48:38,166
- Thank you.
- 1441
- 01:48:39,957 --> 01:48:40,790
- Thank you.
- 1442
- 01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:48,539
- I know many of you wonder who could
- have written this horrific tale
- 1443
- 01:48:48,541 --> 01:48:51,414
- and why was it
- published anonymously.
- 1444
- 01:48:51,416 --> 01:48:55,498
- I see some of you suggest
- that the work belongs to me.
- 1445
- 01:48:55,500 --> 01:49:00,082
- Indeed, you could say that the work would
- not even exist without my contribution.
- 1446
- 01:49:05,791 --> 01:49:07,000
- But to my shame
- 1447
- 01:49:09,457 --> 01:49:13,205
- the only claim I remotely
- have to this work
- 1448
- 01:49:13,207 --> 01:49:18,915
- is inspiring the desperate loneliness
- that defines Frankenstein's creature.
- 1449
- 01:49:22,416 --> 01:49:27,539
- The author of 'Frankenstein; Or A
- Modern Prometheus' is, of course
- 1450
- 01:49:27,541 --> 01:49:29,830
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
- 1451
- 01:49:29,832 --> 01:49:31,748
- [crowd murmurs]
- 1452
- 01:49:31,750 --> 01:49:34,791
- [soft, dramatic music ♪]
- 1453
- 01:49:37,207 --> 01:49:42,790
- It is a work of singular genius and she
- is indebted to no one in its creation.
- 1454
- 01:49:56,750 --> 01:49:57,707
- Percy.
- 1455
- 01:49:59,500 --> 01:50:00,375
- Mary.
- 1456
- 01:50:06,832 --> 01:50:09,040
- I really thought you'd left
- for good.
- 1457
- 01:50:16,166 --> 01:50:18,791
- I never promised you a life
- without misery
- 1458
- 01:50:20,666 --> 01:50:24,248
- but I underestimated the
- depths of despair
- 1459
- 01:50:24,250 --> 01:50:27,625
- and the weight of regret we
- were to endure.
- 1460
- 01:50:30,041 --> 01:50:32,916
- I lost everything to be with
- you, Percy.
- 1461
- 01:50:36,332 --> 01:50:39,332
- Always set out to create
- something wonderful
- 1462
- 01:50:41,250 --> 01:50:42,707
- something beautiful.
- 1463
- 01:50:44,750 --> 01:50:47,957
- But something volatile
- seethed within us.
- 1464
- 01:50:50,791 --> 01:50:51,833
- Behold...
- 1465
- 01:50:54,332 --> 01:50:57,665
- the monster galvanized
- 1466
- 01:51:00,291 --> 01:51:04,791
- but if I had not learned to
- fight through the anguish
- 1467
- 01:51:06,125 --> 01:51:08,541
- I would not have found this
- voice again.
- 1468
- 01:51:10,457 --> 01:51:12,790
- My choices made me who I am.
- 1469
- 01:51:15,957 --> 01:51:18,580
- And I regret nothing.
- 1470
- 01:51:18,582 --> 01:51:22,375
- [music swells ♪]
- 1471
- 01:53:03,582 --> 01:53:06,580
- [Mary, voiceover] You were
- soon borne away by the waves
- 1472
- 01:53:06,582 --> 01:53:10,330
- and lost in darkness
- and distance.
- 1473
- 01:53:10,332 --> 01:53:15,000
- ♪ ♪
- 1474
- 01:53:15,002 --> 01:53:20,002
- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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