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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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[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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...leaving his face
entirely without symmetry...
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...leaving his face
entirely without form...
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...and as her fingertips
touched upon his lips,
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he melted into her.
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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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Claire has been tending
to the house.
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I have spent all hours
going through the ledgers.
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Where were you today
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that you couldn't relieve
your father for a few hours?
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I completed my work
for today.
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I just went out
for some fresh air.
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I know where you were.
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Look who has returned,
my dear.
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I just went out for a walk.
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[distant chatter
on the street]
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[Godwin]
Glad to see you
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devoting yourself
to these great works, Mary.
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[bell on door jingles]
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"To love reading is to have
everything within your reach."
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[door opens, closes]
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[Man]
Payment is over-due, Mr. Godwin.
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Need I remind you of the
conditions of your loan?
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[Godwin]
Business has been very poor.
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Allow me one more month.
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Another month?
It's six months already.
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Now, weren't you asking
for a ghost story?
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Is it a new one?
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Another month.
Understand?
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[mysterious music ♪]
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[Mary]
I will rise from the grave...
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...to tell the tale of the
treachery I have suffered.
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And to seek my revenge!
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[giggling]
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[people chattering]
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[Mary, 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
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at the maiden's neck.
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Sinking his talons...
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...deep, deep into her ripe,
pale skin.
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Blood dripped...
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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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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[scoffs]
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What thoughts
haunt the daughter
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of these esteemed writers?
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Let go!
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[gasping]
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Mary.
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She pushed me!
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- Did you not see her-
- I didn't do anything.
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You all right?
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I can't live
with someone like this.
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There's not a grain
of respect in her.
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- [Mary] I didn't do anything!
- That's enough. That's enough.
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[Godwin, voiceover]
He's an old friend.
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Mr. Baxter is as firm
a believer in education
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as I am.
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You'll find his house
very comfortable.
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[Mary, voiceover]
Scotland?
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[Godwin, voiceover]
I'm sending you away
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because I love you, Mary.
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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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Also that the solitude
will give you time
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for introspection.
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Your writing...
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...this is the work
of an imitator.
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Rid yourself of
the thoughts and words
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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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[birds singing]
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♪♪
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Mary! Welcome.
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Oh, my God, you look so much
like your mother.
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And, thank the Lord,
not a thing like your father.
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I'm William Baxter.
This is my daughter Isabel.
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We'll do our best to keep you
amused out here, Mary.
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It may not be
as bustling as London,
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but I'm sure we can find
some ways to pass the time.
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The night is so different here.
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How do people sleep
with all this silence?
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Come on, I know
just where to go.
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I've thought of trying
to summon my mother...
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...by séance.
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[branches crackling]
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But she suffered so long
with illness...
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...what if she has finally
found peace at last?
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Wouldn't it be cruel
to disturb her?
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Do you think
it could really work,
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reaching the dead?
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[insects chirping]
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I already feel her presence.
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I miss her so much.
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Not a day goes by
when I don't think of her.
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Would you ever consider
trying to contact your mother?
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Maybe she wouldn't
want me to.
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Given I was the one
who killed her.
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She died just days
after I was born.
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Oh, Mary.
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[wind rustles]
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[mysterious music ♪]
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[water rushing]
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[pleasant, dramatic music ♪]
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I love it in Scotland.
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Nothing is as I expected
it would be.
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[laughs]
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You've only been here
a few weeks.
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Give it time.
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In London it's not often
we have occasion
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to picnic by the river.
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Your mistake is waiting
for an occasion.
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[giggles]
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♪♪
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[wind rustling]
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♪♪
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[Coleridge, reciting]
I looked upon the rotting sea
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And drew my eyes away
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I looked upon the rotting deck
And there the dead men lay
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I looked to Heaven
and tried to pray
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But before a prayer had gushed
A wicked whisper came...
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[Baxter]
Come in. Come in. You must be freezing.
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If I could just give you
a couple of my essays.
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[Servant woman
speaks indistinctly]
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My contribution to this
evening's entertainment.
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- [Baxter] How are you?
- [Shelley] Good. How's the party?
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Isabel... who is that?
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Oh, that's Shelley.
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Beautiful, isn't he?
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He's a radical poet.
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He thinks poetry
should reform society,
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and so he's often in trouble.
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[Mary]
Sounds like quite a catch.
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Come, let me introduce you
to some friends.
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[Baxter]
There is someone I would like you to meet.
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Good luck.
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Percy, may I present Mary.
Mary-
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[Coleridge]
Baxter! Come and join us!
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Oh, it's Coleridge.
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Mary, could you put
these nameplates out, please?
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[party chatter]
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Let me get those for you.
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[giggles]
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I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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I am
Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin.
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Of course.
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Baxter mentioned you'd
be joining the family here.
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I am a great admirer
of both your parents' work.
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[Mary] I hope I can entrust
you to this task, Mr. Shelley.
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Or will you try to incite me
to revolution?
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[Shelley]
My reputation precedes me.
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Won't you welcome a change
from the deafening quiet?
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[Mary]
I've grown accustomed to it.
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In London I spend most of my
time in my father's bookshop.
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So the deafening quiet is not
as dramatic as you may think.
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Baxter does his best
for these gatherings.
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Any lover of poetry will surely
find a great thrill in the work
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that is being presented here.
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So surely
you are a writer yourself?
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Not really.
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Nothing substantial.
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I hope to, someday.
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And what, may I ask,
would you constitute
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as "substantial" in your eyes?
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Anything that curdles the blood
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and quickens the beatings
of the heart.
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[Baxter]
Ah, perfect!
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Now may I
steal Mr. Shelley away?
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We would love a poem, sir.
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Certainly, sir.
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Without an audience, ideas
remain mere words on a page.
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[Servant woman]
Mr. Shelley, your essay.
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Oh, I have no need for those.
Thank you.
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I shall trust in the spark
of new found inspiration.
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[guests chattering]
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Oh, not the visioned poet
in his dreams
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When silvery clouds float
through the wildered brain
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When every sight of lovely,
wild and grand
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Astonishes
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Enraptures
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Elevates
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So bright...
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...so fair, so wild a shape
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Hath ever yet beheld
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As that which reined
the coursers of the air
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And poured the magic
of her gaze
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Upon the maiden's sleep
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[dramatic, romantic music ♪]
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[guests chatter]
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♪♪
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[Coleridge, reciting]
Alone, alone
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All alone
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Upon the wide, wide sea
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00:16:41,210 --> 00:16:45,380
And God will not take pity
on my soul in agony
266
00:16:45,381 --> 00:16:46,966
[laughing]
267
00:16:48,133 --> 00:16:51,219
- This weather.
- Ah, stop complaining.
268
00:16:51,220 --> 00:16:53,012
It's Scotland,
what do you expect?
269
00:16:53,013 --> 00:16:56,015
So I say to you, if all
things come from God...
270
00:16:56,016 --> 00:16:57,475
...and we all come from God,
271
00:16:57,476 --> 00:16:59,519
are we not part of God?
272
00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,814
When we think, do we not
behold the very thoughts of God?
273
00:17:02,815 --> 00:17:04,607
Can't say I feel like
much of a god.
274
00:17:04,608 --> 00:17:06,067
Your body is tired, Baxter,
275
00:17:06,068 --> 00:17:08,570
but your spirit,
it longs to soar.
276
00:17:10,948 --> 00:17:12,491
What of you, Miss Godwin?
277
00:17:13,242 --> 00:17:15,535
Do you think you are of God...
278
00:17:15,536 --> 00:17:17,787
...like the great
poet Coleridge?
279
00:17:17,788 --> 00:17:19,415
[birds chirping]
280
00:17:20,082 --> 00:17:20,874
I'll admit...
281
00:17:22,251 --> 00:17:24,460
...I thought Coleridge
was much more captivating
282
00:17:24,461 --> 00:17:25,963
when I was a child.
283
00:17:26,505 --> 00:17:27,755
There you go.
284
00:17:27,756 --> 00:17:29,674
I'm surprised you can
remember back that far.
285
00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:31,634
[Coleridge]
Behold the majesty of God's creation...
286
00:17:31,635 --> 00:17:33,970
Well just how old are you then,
287
00:17:33,971 --> 00:17:36,139
dear ancient one?
288
00:17:36,140 --> 00:17:38,307
Old enough to know
why you are asking.
289
00:17:38,308 --> 00:17:39,684
Ah.
290
00:17:39,685 --> 00:17:41,769
[Coleridge]
It's inspirational, don't you think?
291
00:17:41,770 --> 00:17:43,938
- I'm 16.
- Hmm.
292
00:17:43,939 --> 00:17:45,732
How about you?
293
00:17:45,733 --> 00:17:47,067
21.
294
00:17:48,402 --> 00:17:50,278
A wise old man indeed.
295
00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:52,281
[laughter]
296
00:17:55,868 --> 00:17:57,828
[Shelley, voiceover]
As mountain springs
297
00:17:58,037 --> 00:17:59,203
under the morning sun
298
00:17:59,204 --> 00:18:01,664
We shall become the same
299
00:18:01,665 --> 00:18:05,460
We shall be one spirit
within two frames
300
00:18:05,461 --> 00:18:08,421
Oh, wherefore two?
301
00:18:08,422 --> 00:18:11,591
One passion in twin hearts
which grows and grew
302
00:18:11,592 --> 00:18:14,427
Till like two meteors
of expanding flame
303
00:18:14,428 --> 00:18:18,222
Those spheres instinct
with it become the same
304
00:18:18,223 --> 00:18:19,974
Touch, mingle
305
00:18:19,975 --> 00:18:21,726
Are transfigured ever still
306
00:18:21,727 --> 00:18:22,769
[knock on the door]
307
00:18:22,770 --> 00:18:25,730
Burning, yet inconsumable
308
00:18:25,731 --> 00:18:28,734
[gentle, melancholy music ♪]
309
00:18:33,864 --> 00:18:34,907
Mary...
310
00:18:36,492 --> 00:18:39,078
...I'm afraid I have some
terrible news from London.
311
00:18:40,871 --> 00:18:42,581
It's your sister Claire.
312
00:18:47,127 --> 00:18:49,003
[Mary]
May I ask you...
313
00:18:49,004 --> 00:18:51,632
...could you tell Mr. Shelley
I said goodbye?
314
00:18:53,342 --> 00:18:54,801
Of course.
315
00:18:54,802 --> 00:18:57,596
♪♪
316
00:19:08,816 --> 00:19:12,486
[chatter]
317
00:19:14,113 --> 00:19:16,322
Was Scotland everything
I said it would be?
318
00:19:16,323 --> 00:19:17,616
Were you happy?
319
00:19:18,117 --> 00:19:19,660
[Mary]
I was.
320
00:19:22,955 --> 00:19:25,998
You will live again, Mary.
You have your mother's spirit.
321
00:19:25,999 --> 00:19:27,876
You won't be confined for long.
322
00:19:38,053 --> 00:19:40,722
She's been like this for weeks.
323
00:19:56,613 --> 00:19:57,823
Claire?
324
00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:02,202
Thank God!
You're finally back!
325
00:20:07,124 --> 00:20:08,917
So you aren't dying?
326
00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:12,254
Only from boredom.
327
00:20:14,173 --> 00:20:16,425
You mean you weren't sick
at all?
328
00:20:17,968 --> 00:20:20,888
Well... maybe a little bit.
329
00:20:22,556 --> 00:20:25,016
[chatter]
330
00:20:25,017 --> 00:20:28,729
[light music ♪]
331
00:20:32,065 --> 00:20:34,358
[Shelley, voiceover]
Poor captive bird!
332
00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,235
Who, from thy narrow cage
333
00:20:36,236 --> 00:20:38,863
Pourest such music,
that it might assuage
334
00:20:38,864 --> 00:20:42,825
The rugged hearts of those
who prisoned thee
335
00:20:42,826 --> 00:20:45,870
Were they not deaf towards
sweet melody
336
00:20:45,871 --> 00:20:50,124
This song shall be thy rose,
its petals pale
337
00:20:50,125 --> 00:20:53,127
Are dead, indeed,
338
00:20:53,128 --> 00:20:55,546
my adored Nightingale!
339
00:20:55,547 --> 00:20:57,632
♪♪
340
00:20:57,633 --> 00:20:59,258
[horse whinnies]
341
00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:00,843
[chatter]
342
00:21:00,844 --> 00:21:02,762
♪♪
343
00:21:02,763 --> 00:21:04,972
It seems my mother's
latest reverie
344
00:21:04,973 --> 00:21:07,683
is a young protégé
for your father.
345
00:21:07,684 --> 00:21:09,101
We are all to be
on our best behavior
346
00:21:09,102 --> 00:21:11,520
at dinner tonight
to win him over.
347
00:21:11,521 --> 00:21:13,690
He's wealthy, evidently.
348
00:21:14,566 --> 00:21:16,943
She's a woman
of indomitable hope,
349
00:21:16,944 --> 00:21:18,695
I can't deny her that.
350
00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:23,450
[Godwin clears his throat]
351
00:21:27,746 --> 00:21:29,247
[Godwin]
Mr. Percy Shelley,
352
00:21:29,248 --> 00:21:33,459
may I present Mrs. Godwin,
my wife.
353
00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:38,839
And our children,
William, Claire and Mary.
354
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,092
Delighted.
355
00:21:42,302 --> 00:21:44,637
My husband tells me
you're a poet, Mr Shelley.
356
00:21:44,638 --> 00:21:47,139
He speaks very highly
of your work.
357
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:50,726
Well, I am humbled
by his praise, Mrs. Godwin.
358
00:21:50,727 --> 00:21:53,938
I must admit, though, my work
is not yet widely known.
359
00:21:53,939 --> 00:21:56,440
Although I have just completed
my second volume which...
360
00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:58,025
...awaits publication.
361
00:21:58,026 --> 00:21:59,403
[Godwin]
Very impressive achievement
362
00:21:59,611 --> 00:22:00,528
for such a young man.
363
00:22:00,529 --> 00:22:01,571
[Shelley]
Any achievement of mine
364
00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:02,655
falls within the shadow
365
00:22:02,656 --> 00:22:04,323
of your influence, Mr. Godwin.
366
00:22:04,324 --> 00:22:05,658
You flatter me.
367
00:22:05,659 --> 00:22:06,326
[Shelley]
Hope you will
368
00:22:06,535 --> 00:22:07,243
consider my proposal
369
00:22:07,244 --> 00:22:09,203
to take me on as your protégé.
370
00:22:09,204 --> 00:22:12,540
I have a considerable allowance
at my disposal...
371
00:22:12,541 --> 00:22:17,253
...and would gladly reimburse
you for any time you might spare.
372
00:22:17,254 --> 00:22:21,048
Well, I feel duty bound to...
373
00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:24,678
...foster such ability.
374
00:22:25,887 --> 00:22:27,431
Well then, that's settled.
375
00:22:29,474 --> 00:22:30,683
How fortunate we are
376
00:22:30,684 --> 00:22:33,520
to be in the presence
of two great minds.
377
00:22:34,980 --> 00:22:37,773
[Mrs. Godwin]
You must see our bookshop, Mr. Shelley.
378
00:22:37,774 --> 00:22:39,985
[Godwin]
I have a copy of "The Iliad"
379
00:22:40,193 --> 00:22:41,527
in the original Greek.
380
00:22:41,528 --> 00:22:42,820
Hmm.
381
00:22:42,821 --> 00:22:45,240
Perhaps Mary will show it
to you after dinner.
382
00:22:49,161 --> 00:22:50,412
How are you here?
383
00:22:51,997 --> 00:22:54,457
Does it seem so strange that
I would seek out the tutelage
384
00:22:54,458 --> 00:22:56,251
of the great William Godwin?
385
00:22:58,879 --> 00:23:01,757
Clearly I'm not only here
to see your father.
386
00:23:02,966 --> 00:23:04,634
Then why are you here?
387
00:23:07,179 --> 00:23:10,556
To once again feel
the curdling of my blood
388
00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:13,894
and the quickening of the
beatings of my heart.
389
00:23:17,898 --> 00:23:19,274
Mary?
390
00:23:20,233 --> 00:23:21,651
Mr. Shelley?
391
00:23:23,153 --> 00:23:25,697
Your father would like
to see Mr. Shelley.
392
00:23:27,866 --> 00:23:28,992
Thank you.
393
00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:31,369
I will be with him momentarily.
394
00:23:31,370 --> 00:23:35,332
I'm quite enjoying the,
uh, collection.
395
00:23:36,792 --> 00:23:37,793
So I see.
396
00:23:40,045 --> 00:23:41,880
[both chuckle]
397
00:23:42,756 --> 00:23:44,298
As I was saying,
398
00:23:44,299 --> 00:23:47,968
both your parents are a great
source of inspiration to me.
399
00:23:47,969 --> 00:23:50,138
My mother died
when I was ten days old.
400
00:23:51,098 --> 00:23:53,100
I'm sorry, I had no idea.
401
00:23:54,309 --> 00:23:56,060
Don't be sorry.
402
00:23:56,061 --> 00:23:57,562
I love to talk about her.
403
00:23:58,397 --> 00:24:00,690
Even if I never truly knew her.
404
00:24:02,109 --> 00:24:05,694
All of the contradictions
she embodied.
405
00:24:05,695 --> 00:24:07,406
All anyone ever talks about...
406
00:24:08,281 --> 00:24:10,783
...now is how she wanted
to go off
407
00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:14,245
and live with a married man
and his wife...
408
00:24:14,246 --> 00:24:15,747
...in a ménage à trois.
409
00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:18,041
And what do you think about...
410
00:24:19,042 --> 00:24:20,501
...all that?
411
00:24:20,502 --> 00:24:22,212
I have no problem with it.
412
00:24:23,797 --> 00:24:26,216
People should live and love
as they wish.
413
00:24:27,843 --> 00:24:30,219
But one thing I've never
understood is...
414
00:24:30,220 --> 00:24:32,847
...why did two radicals
such as your parents
415
00:24:32,848 --> 00:24:34,598
succumb to marriage?
416
00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:36,685
To legitimize me.
417
00:24:40,939 --> 00:24:42,107
Meet me...
418
00:24:43,066 --> 00:24:44,025
...tomorrow.
419
00:24:44,985 --> 00:24:46,111
Just tell me where.
420
00:24:49,990 --> 00:24:51,992
There is a place I go alone.
421
00:24:54,077 --> 00:24:56,203
I'm not sure
what you'll make of it.
422
00:24:56,204 --> 00:24:58,622
[delicate, dramatic music ♪]
423
00:24:58,623 --> 00:25:00,667
My sanctuary of sorts.
424
00:25:03,003 --> 00:25:05,588
[Shelley]
Then it will be my sanctuary, too.
425
00:25:05,589 --> 00:25:09,342
♪♪
426
00:25:19,436 --> 00:25:21,104
I come here whenever I can.
427
00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:24,649
Just to feel her embrace.
428
00:25:27,903 --> 00:25:29,945
My father taught me to read...
429
00:25:29,946 --> 00:25:32,323
...by tracing the letters
of her name.
430
00:25:32,324 --> 00:25:34,534
[wind blowing]
431
00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:38,872
I don't know what it is
I'm waiting for here.
432
00:25:40,165 --> 00:25:44,127
Maybe you're just waiting
for someone to reach out and...
433
00:25:45,378 --> 00:25:47,171
...return your embrace.
434
00:25:47,172 --> 00:25:50,217
♪♪
435
00:25:53,512 --> 00:25:56,180
[thunder rolling]
[Mary panting]
436
00:25:56,181 --> 00:25:58,141
I thought we would never
escape the rain.
437
00:25:59,726 --> 00:26:03,062
I think I'd rather suffer
the deluge outside.
438
00:26:03,063 --> 00:26:04,939
If God is everywhere,
439
00:26:04,940 --> 00:26:07,816
then why must Man
erect temples to Him?
440
00:26:07,817 --> 00:26:09,652
Because it is your imagination
441
00:26:09,653 --> 00:26:11,695
that is the instrument
of moral good,
442
00:26:11,696 --> 00:26:13,782
not these four walls.
443
00:26:17,494 --> 00:26:20,371
Let's see if the Great Creator
strikes us down.
444
00:26:20,372 --> 00:26:21,540
[grunts]
445
00:26:24,209 --> 00:26:28,963
You shall fear
the Lord your God.
446
00:26:28,964 --> 00:26:31,298
Thrones, altars...
447
00:26:31,299 --> 00:26:32,883
...judgement seats,
and prisons,
448
00:26:32,884 --> 00:26:37,179
they are all part of one
gigantic, despotic system...
449
00:26:37,180 --> 00:26:41,393
...designed to crush
the soul of Man.
450
00:26:42,852 --> 00:26:45,688
Their empty covenant
has no power over us.
451
00:26:45,689 --> 00:26:47,899
♪♪
452
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,985
I fear not of God,
453
00:26:50,986 --> 00:26:52,778
or His henchmen on Earth.
454
00:26:52,779 --> 00:26:54,030
Hmm.
455
00:26:56,241 --> 00:26:57,950
[distant thud]
456
00:26:57,951 --> 00:26:59,326
Someone's here.
457
00:26:59,327 --> 00:27:01,328
[distant thud]
458
00:27:01,329 --> 00:27:04,332
Percy.
459
00:27:06,126 --> 00:27:08,628
[Shelley]
So the Judgement Day is upon us already.
460
00:27:10,338 --> 00:27:11,673
[Deacon]
Hello?
461
00:27:14,843 --> 00:27:16,303
Is anyone there?
462
00:27:17,721 --> 00:27:19,513
[laughing quietly]
463
00:27:19,514 --> 00:27:22,267
♪♪
464
00:27:34,029 --> 00:27:37,407
[music swells ♪]
465
00:27:51,254 --> 00:27:52,254
[music fades]
466
00:27:52,255 --> 00:27:55,924
Oh, Mr. Shelley,
it is a real book.
467
00:27:55,925 --> 00:28:00,137
Your name looks so good
in that gold typeface.
468
00:28:00,138 --> 00:28:01,472
I'm sure it will be
more popular
469
00:28:01,473 --> 00:28:03,767
than your treatise
on the virtues of atheism.
470
00:28:05,101 --> 00:28:07,269
[Godwin] Ghost stories and romance
novels might sell, my dear,
471
00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:08,937
but it's books that
challenge the common doctrine
472
00:28:08,938 --> 00:28:12,566
and superstition
that will truly endure.
473
00:28:12,567 --> 00:28:15,194
We rely on brave works
like this
474
00:28:15,195 --> 00:28:18,113
to push the world out of
its misery and delusion.
475
00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:19,532
Well done, sir.
476
00:28:20,533 --> 00:28:22,327
I hope you like it,
Miss Godwin.
477
00:28:24,329 --> 00:28:26,039
I'm sure I will.
478
00:28:35,048 --> 00:28:36,633
[Shelley, whispering]
Read it when you're alone.
479
00:28:50,855 --> 00:28:52,731
Oh, give it to me!
[laughs]
480
00:28:52,732 --> 00:28:54,650
Give it to me.
Please, Mary.
481
00:28:54,651 --> 00:28:55,985
Mary.
482
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,155
"The sunlight clasp the Earth
483
00:29:00,156 --> 00:29:02,741
And the moonbeams
kiss the sea
484
00:29:02,742 --> 00:29:04,993
What are
all these kissings worth..."
485
00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:06,955
[Claire]
"If thou kiss not me?"
486
00:29:08,248 --> 00:29:09,541
[Harriet]
Miss Godwin?
487
00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:11,333
Yes?
488
00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:13,168
[people chattering]
489
00:29:13,169 --> 00:29:16,964
I am Mrs. Shelley.
Harriet Shelley.
490
00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:20,759
And this is Ianthe,
our daughter.
491
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,930
[quiet, dramatic music ♪]
492
00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:30,185
How can I help you,
Mrs. Shelley?
493
00:29:30,186 --> 00:29:32,230
I am searching for my husband.
494
00:29:35,233 --> 00:29:36,568
He's not here.
495
00:29:37,444 --> 00:29:39,446
My father works alone today.
496
00:29:40,488 --> 00:29:42,906
I cannot help you any further.
497
00:29:42,907 --> 00:29:44,284
Miss Godwin!
498
00:29:47,412 --> 00:29:49,122
Stay away from Percy.
499
00:29:51,958 --> 00:29:56,628
I have not seen him in weeks
but I have heard rumors.
500
00:29:56,629 --> 00:30:01,008
Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
would be impervious to gossip?
501
00:30:01,009 --> 00:30:04,763
Evidently you are a stranger
to scandal, Miss Godwin.
502
00:30:07,307 --> 00:30:10,351
Did you know I ran away
with Percy when I was a girl?
503
00:30:12,145 --> 00:30:15,315
Idealism and love
give us courage.
504
00:30:16,566 --> 00:30:18,525
But they do not prepare you
for the sacrifice
505
00:30:18,526 --> 00:30:21,029
required to love a man
like Percy.
506
00:30:24,032 --> 00:30:27,534
Your husband
is my father's student.
507
00:30:27,535 --> 00:30:28,828
Nothing more.
508
00:30:29,871 --> 00:30:31,079
If I see Mr. Shelley,
509
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,041
I will let him know
you are looking for him.
510
00:30:34,417 --> 00:30:36,211
Goodbye, Mrs. Shelley.
511
00:30:38,004 --> 00:30:40,381
♪♪
512
00:30:43,551 --> 00:30:45,887
[bell on door chimes]
513
00:30:49,933 --> 00:30:51,351
Claire?
514
00:30:54,145 --> 00:30:55,230
[music fades]
515
00:31:06,157 --> 00:31:08,076
Your wife is very pretty,
Mr. Shelley.
516
00:31:08,993 --> 00:31:10,620
I didn't know you were married.
517
00:31:12,413 --> 00:31:13,456
Yes.
518
00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:19,128
Yes, I've been married
for five years now.
519
00:31:20,421 --> 00:31:21,714
[Mrs. Godwin]
Well, well.
520
00:31:23,341 --> 00:31:25,093
We look forward
to meeting Mrs. Shelley.
521
00:31:26,344 --> 00:31:28,762
Perhaps she would like to
join us for dinner one evening?
522
00:31:28,763 --> 00:31:31,056
[Shelley] Your offer is most kind,
Mrs. Godwin.
523
00:31:31,057 --> 00:31:34,518
However, Mrs. Shelley and I
are man and wife in name...
524
00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:35,727
...only.
525
00:31:35,728 --> 00:31:37,437
I continue to provide
for Harriet
526
00:31:37,438 --> 00:31:40,983
and my daughter Ianthe
financially but that is all.
527
00:31:40,984 --> 00:31:43,360
It is an intolerable tyranny...
528
00:31:43,361 --> 00:31:46,655
...to bind husband and wife
to cohabitation
529
00:31:46,656 --> 00:31:49,868
after the decay
of their affection.
530
00:31:51,578 --> 00:31:52,537
Yeah.
531
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,624
I remember saying something
like that when I was young.
532
00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:06,758
How could you do such a thing?
533
00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:10,095
- What did I do?
- You told her.
534
00:32:10,096 --> 00:32:11,681
I had to.
535
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,447
How could you not speak
of Harriet and Ianthe?
536
00:32:28,448 --> 00:32:29,990
My marriage was a mistake.
537
00:32:29,991 --> 00:32:33,327
I believed that I'd found
in Harriet a kindred spirit.
538
00:32:33,328 --> 00:32:35,829
But time revealed only
an empty, heartless cynicism
539
00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:40,334
that consumed the both of us
in a spiral of hate and anguish.
540
00:32:40,335 --> 00:32:41,294
But when I met you...
541
00:32:42,795 --> 00:32:46,048
...for the first time since
my marriage, I felt alive.
542
00:32:46,049 --> 00:32:48,467
And had you known
I was married,
543
00:32:48,468 --> 00:32:50,344
propriety would have gotten
the better of you.
544
00:32:50,345 --> 00:32:52,179
Propriety has never
been a concern of mine.
545
00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:53,805
I promise you it can
be very easy to say that,
546
00:32:53,806 --> 00:32:56,767
but it can be very different
to live it.
547
00:32:56,768 --> 00:32:58,185
Which is what I challenge you
to do now.
548
00:32:58,186 --> 00:32:59,478
You challenge me to what?
549
00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:00,687
- To do what-
- Shh!
550
00:33:00,688 --> 00:33:03,398
To do what your heart
is telling you to do
551
00:33:03,399 --> 00:33:05,734
and to come away with me.
552
00:33:05,735 --> 00:33:07,654
And let us both find...
553
00:33:09,072 --> 00:33:12,032
...new air to fill our lungs.
554
00:33:12,033 --> 00:33:14,202
[quiet, dramatic music ♪]
555
00:33:15,078 --> 00:33:17,622
A new sun to warm our faces.
556
00:33:18,748 --> 00:33:25,128
See a new life that is
actually worth the living...
557
00:33:25,129 --> 00:33:26,297
...together.
558
00:33:37,934 --> 00:33:39,851
[Mary] The air in this house
was stifling
559
00:33:39,852 --> 00:33:42,270
long before Shelley,
560
00:33:42,271 --> 00:33:44,022
but the fact
that he comes here every day
561
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:46,316
makes it even less bearable.
562
00:33:46,317 --> 00:33:48,568
♪♪
563
00:33:48,569 --> 00:33:50,571
Feels like I'm suffocating.
564
00:33:52,490 --> 00:33:54,242
I just want to get away.
565
00:33:57,161 --> 00:33:58,955
[Claire]
At least you went to Scotland.
566
00:33:59,872 --> 00:34:01,541
I've never been anywhere.
567
00:34:05,253 --> 00:34:07,588
Next time we'll
go somewhere together.
568
00:34:09,966 --> 00:34:12,509
We'll set off around the world,
569
00:34:12,510 --> 00:34:14,220
just you and me.
570
00:34:15,722 --> 00:34:18,598
And we'll meet amazing people
571
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:20,810
and go to wonderful places.
572
00:34:21,936 --> 00:34:23,729
And none of this,
573
00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:26,733
or any of these people,
will matter at all.
574
00:34:28,401 --> 00:34:30,153
They won't mean a thing.
575
00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:33,740
I promise.
576
00:34:34,741 --> 00:34:37,702
I can't imagine anything
more wonderful.
577
00:34:38,786 --> 00:34:40,662
[chatter]
578
00:34:40,663 --> 00:34:46,168
[clock tower bell ringing]
579
00:34:46,169 --> 00:34:48,295
Done so soon, Mr. Shelley?
580
00:34:48,296 --> 00:34:49,921
I thought you and Mr. Godwin
would be working
581
00:34:49,922 --> 00:34:51,757
through the afternoon.
582
00:34:51,758 --> 00:34:53,925
I'm afraid I don't feel up
to much of anything today,
583
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:55,428
Mrs. Godwin.
584
00:35:06,856 --> 00:35:08,356
Mr. Shelley seems
to be suffering
585
00:35:08,357 --> 00:35:10,735
from some sort of
emotional anguish.
586
00:35:12,862 --> 00:35:15,572
Perhaps he was disappointed
to find that...
587
00:35:15,573 --> 00:35:18,366
...you do not cultivate the
same public feats of wantonness
588
00:35:18,367 --> 00:35:20,203
as your dear departed mother.
589
00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:24,998
I would ask that you not
speak ill of my mother.
590
00:35:24,999 --> 00:35:26,209
Oh, but of course.
591
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:29,920
How dare anyone utter one
word out of turn
592
00:35:29,921 --> 00:35:32,465
about a deceased person
of such eminent merit?
593
00:35:33,883 --> 00:35:37,219
At least you have not inherited
that strange deficit of hers.
594
00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:38,595
That foolish impulsiveness
595
00:35:38,596 --> 00:35:40,973
which mistook wretchedness
with emancipation.
596
00:35:42,475 --> 00:35:46,228
I have inherited nothing
but a fire in my soul
597
00:35:46,229 --> 00:35:48,313
and I will no longer allow you,
598
00:35:48,314 --> 00:35:50,607
or anyone else, to contain it.
599
00:35:50,608 --> 00:35:53,610
Are you really involved
with that whoremonger?
600
00:35:53,611 --> 00:35:56,279
I hope those rumors
prove to be false.
601
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,990
Just when we have found
an avenue for our salvation,
602
00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:02,327
you go and turn our fortunes
into yet another scandal.
603
00:36:02,328 --> 00:36:05,914
Do you believe I care at all
for my reputation?
604
00:36:05,915 --> 00:36:07,582
Or yours?
605
00:36:07,583 --> 00:36:10,961
I fear nothing but letting
your meaningless words
606
00:36:10,962 --> 00:36:13,714
scare me away from my desires.
607
00:36:17,301 --> 00:36:19,469
[panting]
608
00:36:19,470 --> 00:36:23,683
[dramatic music ♪]
609
00:36:36,112 --> 00:36:38,989
[Shelley, voiceover]
The sunlight clasps the Earth
610
00:36:38,990 --> 00:36:42,784
And the moonbeams
kiss the sea
611
00:36:42,785 --> 00:36:45,287
What are
all these kissings worth
612
00:36:45,288 --> 00:36:48,207
If thou kiss not me?
613
00:36:54,422 --> 00:36:59,510
♪♪
614
00:37:01,512 --> 00:37:02,555
[Shelley]
Mary.
615
00:37:20,031 --> 00:37:22,532
What do you mean?
But you're already married.
616
00:37:22,533 --> 00:37:23,868
We love each other.
617
00:37:24,577 --> 00:37:26,536
We don't need to be married.
618
00:37:26,537 --> 00:37:27,579
[Mrs. Godwin]
I told you your warped ideals
619
00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:28,872
would come back to haunt us.
620
00:37:28,873 --> 00:37:30,123
Mrs. Godwin, please.
621
00:37:30,124 --> 00:37:32,459
We are only living
by your beliefs.
622
00:37:32,460 --> 00:37:34,211
What do you know
of living your beliefs?
623
00:37:34,212 --> 00:37:35,462
You had no problem
with my mother
624
00:37:35,463 --> 00:37:36,630
wanting to live
out of wedlock.
625
00:37:36,631 --> 00:37:37,964
[Godwin]
Do you really think
626
00:37:37,965 --> 00:37:40,301
you can withstand
the consequences of this?
627
00:37:41,302 --> 00:37:44,931
Your mother was tortured
by her impulses.
628
00:37:46,349 --> 00:37:48,808
The very passions she thought
were holding her together
629
00:37:48,809 --> 00:37:53,480
were working just as
diligently to tear her apart.
630
00:37:53,481 --> 00:37:56,399
Don't let them get the better
of you, Mary.
631
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,361
And you forget whatever fantasy
you've woven with my daughter.
632
00:37:59,362 --> 00:38:00,820
Are you really suggesting
633
00:38:00,821 --> 00:38:04,157
I could only be with your
daughter if we were married?
634
00:38:04,158 --> 00:38:05,700
How dare you?
635
00:38:05,701 --> 00:38:07,953
Come into my house,
you accept my hospitality
636
00:38:07,954 --> 00:38:10,205
and seduce
my 16 year old daughter!
637
00:38:10,206 --> 00:38:11,665
Is it not you
accepting my money?
638
00:38:11,666 --> 00:38:13,000
Go back to your wife!
639
00:38:14,126 --> 00:38:16,836
Never set foot
in this house again.
640
00:38:16,837 --> 00:38:19,339
My love, I will return for you.
641
00:38:19,340 --> 00:38:22,175
♪♪
642
00:38:22,176 --> 00:38:26,096
If you ever
see Mr. Shelley again,
643
00:38:26,097 --> 00:38:29,225
prepare to lose the love
of a father, forever.
644
00:38:31,310 --> 00:38:33,688
[music fades]
645
00:38:48,202 --> 00:38:49,036
[Claire, whispering]
Mary!
646
00:38:52,290 --> 00:38:53,541
Mary!
647
00:38:55,293 --> 00:38:57,127
Don't look back, Mary.
648
00:38:57,128 --> 00:38:59,630
Remember, once you are gone...
649
00:39:00,506 --> 00:39:02,132
...none of this,
650
00:39:02,133 --> 00:39:05,052
or any of these people,
will matter at all.
651
00:39:06,679 --> 00:39:09,515
But please, Mary,
take me with you.
652
00:39:10,516 --> 00:39:13,227
You promised next time
we would go together.
653
00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:29,285
[dog barking]
654
00:39:33,748 --> 00:39:36,041
[carriage approaching]
655
00:39:36,042 --> 00:39:38,084
I hope I haven't kept you
waiting long!
656
00:39:38,085 --> 00:39:41,630
[mysterious, dramatic music]
657
00:39:48,888 --> 00:39:50,764
I guess you come as a pair.
658
00:39:50,765 --> 00:39:52,932
I couldn't leave her.
659
00:39:52,933 --> 00:39:54,267
[Shelley]
Come!
660
00:39:54,268 --> 00:39:55,393
[Mary]
Where are we going?
661
00:39:55,394 --> 00:39:57,228
To St. Pancras.
662
00:39:57,229 --> 00:39:59,898
♪♪
663
00:39:59,899 --> 00:40:01,484
[laughing]
664
00:40:06,072 --> 00:40:07,698
[joyful screaming]
665
00:40:08,783 --> 00:40:09,825
Ladies.
666
00:40:12,495 --> 00:40:14,162
It's down here.
667
00:40:14,163 --> 00:40:15,122
[laughs]
668
00:40:15,623 --> 00:40:16,624
[Mary squeals]
669
00:40:20,294 --> 00:40:21,253
Thank you.
670
00:40:22,838 --> 00:40:23,713
Oh!
671
00:40:23,714 --> 00:40:26,508
[gentle, dramatic music ♪]
672
00:40:26,509 --> 00:40:29,636
It is temporary, of course.
673
00:40:29,637 --> 00:40:31,430
[Claire]
Well, where will I sleep?
674
00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:34,808
Try through there.
675
00:40:34,809 --> 00:40:36,185
[chuckles]
676
00:40:41,190 --> 00:40:43,109
I am going to find us
a house...
677
00:40:43,943 --> 00:40:46,946
...and I intend it
to be perfect.
678
00:40:47,780 --> 00:40:49,573
It already is perfect.
679
00:40:50,950 --> 00:40:52,159
I have you.
680
00:40:53,786 --> 00:40:56,455
Wherever we're together
is where I belong.
681
00:41:08,175 --> 00:41:09,802
Are you sure, Mary?
682
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:13,389
Only if you are ready,
my love.
683
00:41:20,104 --> 00:41:22,982
[airy, dramatic music ♪]
684
00:41:27,361 --> 00:41:30,364
♪♪
685
00:41:41,459 --> 00:41:43,918
[Mary, voiceover]
I'm free to write what I please.
686
00:41:43,919 --> 00:41:45,128
Like a torrent of light
687
00:41:45,129 --> 00:41:47,046
poured into a dark world.
688
00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:50,049
All around me I see bliss,
689
00:41:50,050 --> 00:41:51,801
'cause I now know what it is
to love...
690
00:41:51,802 --> 00:41:52,761
[Shelley, voiceover]
Its very essence is liberty.
691
00:41:52,970 --> 00:41:53,888
[Mary, voiceover]
...and be loved.
692
00:41:54,096 --> 00:41:57,099
It is comparable neither with
obedience, jealous nor fear.
693
00:41:57,308 --> 00:42:02,145
It is there, most pure,
perfect and unlimited.
694
00:42:02,146 --> 00:42:05,190
...close round the dying girl.
695
00:42:05,191 --> 00:42:06,900
[pretending to choke]
696
00:42:06,901 --> 00:42:10,987
Out and in they hurry and spin
697
00:42:10,988 --> 00:42:14,866
and dance, through the dance.
698
00:42:14,867 --> 00:42:19,162
They dance
through the weary Whirl.
699
00:42:19,163 --> 00:42:22,540
Patience, patience,
though my heart is breaking.
700
00:42:22,541 --> 00:42:25,043
God, there is no
question-making
701
00:42:25,044 --> 00:42:28,880
of thy body thou art
quit and free.
702
00:42:28,881 --> 00:42:33,552
Heaven keep thy soul eternally!
703
00:42:38,641 --> 00:42:41,268
I trust you've enjoyed
the last of the claret?
704
00:42:45,606 --> 00:42:49,568
Would it be unwise to ask how
it went today?
705
00:42:51,946 --> 00:42:53,447
My publishers are fools.
706
00:42:56,450 --> 00:42:58,117
Don't let them upset you.
707
00:42:58,118 --> 00:43:00,286
They're not worth it.
708
00:43:00,287 --> 00:43:02,623
But their advance is worth
everything, Mary.
709
00:43:07,586 --> 00:43:09,088
My father has cut me off.
710
00:43:10,798 --> 00:43:12,632
He says I've disgraced
his name
711
00:43:12,633 --> 00:43:18,304
because of the scandal
that surrounds us.
712
00:43:18,305 --> 00:43:19,098
So now you know.
713
00:43:28,065 --> 00:43:30,025
[crowd chattering]
714
00:43:39,785 --> 00:43:41,996
[Godwin]
This one. Is that of any interest?
715
00:43:43,163 --> 00:43:43,956
No?
716
00:43:45,249 --> 00:43:47,209
Not interested in those.
What else do you have?
717
00:43:49,336 --> 00:43:52,046
Well, 'Iliad' by Homer
in the original Greek.
718
00:43:52,047 --> 00:43:52,881
Father?
719
00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:56,093
It's been weeks.
720
00:44:01,307 --> 00:44:02,474
You're selling it?
721
00:44:03,559 --> 00:44:05,893
Yes. There comes a time
when we all
722
00:44:05,894 --> 00:44:08,897
have to let go of the
things we hold dear.
723
00:44:18,824 --> 00:44:22,744
It's your decision, Mary,
and you must live with it.
724
00:44:22,745 --> 00:44:25,539
He claims to love humanity
yet forsakes his child.
725
00:44:29,126 --> 00:44:31,295
I wish nothing more than that
you should thrive.
726
00:44:33,547 --> 00:44:35,716
But, look at you.
727
00:44:39,845 --> 00:44:42,723
[Vendor]
So, do you want to sell it?
728
00:44:47,853 --> 00:44:49,104
No.
729
00:45:03,327 --> 00:45:04,827
[Shelley]
Erasmus Darwin once wrote...
730
00:45:04,828 --> 00:45:06,288
[Claire]
Who is Erasmus Darwin?
731
00:45:06,497 --> 00:45:07,498
[Shelley]
A poet and a physician.
732
00:45:07,706 --> 00:45:08,540
He once wrote that
733
00:45:08,749 --> 00:45:11,377
a man who has never
tried an experiment in his life is a fool.
734
00:45:14,254 --> 00:45:17,966
[faint conversation]
735
00:45:20,886 --> 00:45:22,095
[Shelley]
...on my sister's cat.
736
00:45:22,096 --> 00:45:23,971
[Claire]
Oh Shelley, you didn't!
737
00:45:23,972 --> 00:45:27,100
[Shelley] No, I didn't. I have
the claw marks to prove it.
738
00:45:27,101 --> 00:45:28,227
[laughter]
739
00:45:29,645 --> 00:45:30,604
What's going on?
740
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,231
I remembered a debt unpaid.
741
00:45:33,232 --> 00:45:35,400
I know how much
you love science, Mary.
742
00:45:35,401 --> 00:45:37,276
Watch this.
743
00:45:37,277 --> 00:45:39,738
[laughs]
744
00:45:42,783 --> 00:45:43,784
[Mary]
This is incredible.
745
00:45:46,078 --> 00:45:48,246
[Shelley]
And this is for you.
746
00:45:48,247 --> 00:45:50,082
[Mary]
Shelley.
747
00:45:53,293 --> 00:45:55,420
You shouldn't have spent
money on dresses.
748
00:45:55,421 --> 00:45:59,090
Don't be silly, Mary,
it's beautiful.
749
00:45:59,091 --> 00:46:00,508
That is not all.
750
00:46:00,509 --> 00:46:05,722
Tomorrow we move to our
new house in Bloomsbury.
751
00:46:05,723 --> 00:46:08,933
- The servants will meet us there.
- Servants!
752
00:46:08,934 --> 00:46:11,477
Because how can we write if
we are forced to tend
753
00:46:11,478 --> 00:46:13,730
to such domestic mundanities
754
00:46:13,731 --> 00:46:15,149
as the shopping
and the cleaning.
755
00:46:16,817 --> 00:46:19,486
You make everything
seem possible.
756
00:46:28,370 --> 00:46:32,540
- It's a step up from St. Pancras.
- Welcome home, Mary.
757
00:46:32,541 --> 00:46:34,125
[giggles]
Stop.
758
00:46:34,126 --> 00:46:36,627
[laughs]
759
00:46:36,628 --> 00:46:37,504
Wait for me!
760
00:46:38,881 --> 00:46:39,923
Come on.
761
00:46:41,884 --> 00:46:45,888
[dramatic, romantic music ♪]
762
00:46:47,431 --> 00:46:49,391
[soft moaning]
763
00:47:02,112 --> 00:47:03,530
[Mary, voiceover]
A day devoted to love and idleness
764
00:47:05,115 --> 00:47:07,117
but despite my earthly
paradise
765
00:47:08,035 --> 00:47:10,703
I feel a frustration
born of guilt.
766
00:47:10,704 --> 00:47:14,041
A constant whisper that I am
no closer to achieving my dreams.
767
00:47:16,502 --> 00:47:17,336
Excuse me,
768
00:47:18,295 --> 00:47:19,505
are you the poet Shelley?
769
00:47:21,006 --> 00:47:23,674
Yes. Yes, I am.
770
00:47:23,675 --> 00:47:26,844
- Would you sign my pocketbook?
- Of course.
771
00:47:26,845 --> 00:47:28,222
Our friends will be
terribly jealous.
772
00:47:29,848 --> 00:47:30,641
There.
773
00:47:32,851 --> 00:47:33,936
Well, have a good day.
774
00:47:36,605 --> 00:47:38,732
[Mary]
My love, I have news.
775
00:47:41,944 --> 00:47:46,156
Oh, my Mary. Hey, a baby.
776
00:47:47,825 --> 00:47:48,659
What news!
777
00:47:49,785 --> 00:47:51,161
- You're happy?
- Of course I'm happy.
778
00:47:52,663 --> 00:47:53,872
Why? Aren't you?
779
00:47:56,375 --> 00:48:00,169
I've never had a mother.
What if I fail?
780
00:48:00,170 --> 00:48:02,089
You think we can only learn
by example?
781
00:48:03,549 --> 00:48:04,925
What of pure instinct?
782
00:48:05,717 --> 00:48:08,053
Of the inherent good that lies
in all of us?
783
00:48:08,262 --> 00:48:11,430
And that, my darling,
you have in abundance.
784
00:48:11,431 --> 00:48:14,433
- As will our little girl.
- You think it's a girl?
785
00:48:14,434 --> 00:48:17,020
She will be our
very own prodigy.
786
00:48:18,105 --> 00:48:19,189
[Harriet]
Ianthe, come here.
787
00:48:21,149 --> 00:48:22,150
Good girl.
788
00:48:24,444 --> 00:48:27,406
[quiet, melancholy music ♪]
789
00:48:35,455 --> 00:48:36,665
Come, we have to go.
790
00:48:37,749 --> 00:48:38,542
Now.
791
00:48:50,512 --> 00:48:53,681
[Claire's voice, echoing]
Take me with you, please, take me.
792
00:48:53,682 --> 00:48:55,725
Please, Mary,
take me with you.
793
00:48:55,726 --> 00:48:57,852
Take me with you.
794
00:48:57,853 --> 00:49:04,692
♪♪
795
00:49:04,693 --> 00:49:07,863
[Baby crying]
796
00:49:16,038 --> 00:49:17,164
There is someone in my room.
797
00:49:17,998 --> 00:49:19,458
Someone? Did you see him?
798
00:49:20,626 --> 00:49:22,878
No. They...
799
00:49:27,382 --> 00:49:28,342
No one, nothing.
800
00:49:28,550 --> 00:49:31,093
[Mary] It's one of
your nightmares, Claire.
801
00:49:31,094 --> 00:49:32,095
I will sit with her.
802
00:49:32,304 --> 00:49:34,597
[Shelley] No, no, I will
take her to bed.
803
00:49:34,598 --> 00:49:37,100
You need to rest.
Think of the baby.
804
00:49:37,309 --> 00:49:38,435
Claire, come on.
805
00:49:39,436 --> 00:49:42,439
[quiet, mysterious music ♪]
806
00:50:15,347 --> 00:50:17,808
She sleeps. Finally.
807
00:50:18,183 --> 00:50:19,850
[birds chirping]
808
00:50:19,851 --> 00:50:21,019
And you should, too.
809
00:50:27,025 --> 00:50:28,068
I love you, Mary.
810
00:50:34,866 --> 00:50:35,741
[dishes clattering]
811
00:50:35,742 --> 00:50:36,701
Allow me to do it.
812
00:50:36,702 --> 00:50:38,327
[laughter]
813
00:50:38,328 --> 00:50:39,705
[Claire]
Absolutely no clue.
814
00:50:41,415 --> 00:50:43,000
[Shelley] I can't tell if you're
telling the truth or not.
815
00:50:43,166 --> 00:50:43,792
[Claire]
I am telling the truth.
816
00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:44,876
[Shelley] Who's paying for it?
I'm paying for it?
817
00:50:45,085 --> 00:50:45,961
[Claire]
No.
818
00:50:46,169 --> 00:50:49,214
[Shelley] You're gonna ruin me,
Claire Clairemont. You're gonna ruin me.
819
00:50:49,423 --> 00:50:53,134
- [Mary] What's all this for?
- Oh, there you are. Guess what.
820
00:50:53,135 --> 00:50:55,762
Tonight we are having
a dinner party.
821
00:50:59,683 --> 00:51:02,768
Come here. Don't we deserve
a little fun?
822
00:51:02,769 --> 00:51:05,439
My dear, dear friend Thomas
Hogg is in town
823
00:51:05,647 --> 00:51:08,149
and has just
published his first book.
824
00:51:08,150 --> 00:51:11,652
So I thought we would throw
him a party to celebrate.
825
00:51:11,653 --> 00:51:13,863
Ma'am, how many guests are we
expecting this evening?
826
00:51:13,864 --> 00:51:15,865
Maybe 10.
827
00:51:15,866 --> 00:51:18,951
10 or 12?
828
00:51:18,952 --> 00:51:20,244
12.
829
00:51:20,245 --> 00:51:22,622
Did the publisher's advance
come in?
830
00:51:26,168 --> 00:51:28,586
I borrowed against
my father's estate.
831
00:51:28,587 --> 00:51:31,297
Percy, there's no way we can
afford to pay it back.
832
00:51:31,298 --> 00:51:34,801
Come on... come here. Come.
833
00:51:37,637 --> 00:51:39,513
[laughing]
834
00:51:39,514 --> 00:51:45,312
[chattering]
835
00:51:50,025 --> 00:51:52,986
I'm sorry it's not much of
a celebration, Mr Hogg.
836
00:51:55,322 --> 00:51:57,907
It appears we're even more
scandalous than we realized.
837
00:51:57,908 --> 00:51:59,408
Don't trouble yourself, Mary.
838
00:51:59,409 --> 00:52:02,745
Shelley and I have a long
history of courting trouble.
839
00:52:02,746 --> 00:52:05,164
We began writing a novel
together back at Oxford but
840
00:52:05,165 --> 00:52:06,874
publishers deemed it
too subversive.
841
00:52:06,875 --> 00:52:09,002
We had more success with
our treatise which
842
00:52:09,211 --> 00:52:10,336
we wrote anonymously:
843
00:52:10,337 --> 00:52:12,755
'The Necessity of Atheism'.
844
00:52:12,756 --> 00:52:13,715
Because it was published?
845
00:52:13,924 --> 00:52:15,925
Because it resulted in our
expulsion from Oxford.
846
00:52:15,926 --> 00:52:17,843
[laughter]
847
00:52:17,844 --> 00:52:20,722
I'm beginning to suspect you
have a penchant for being anonymous.
848
00:52:20,931 --> 00:52:23,850
What's the point of being published
if you don't have your name on it?
849
00:52:24,059 --> 00:52:24,643
Why bother?
850
00:52:24,893 --> 00:52:26,853
I assume you also write?
851
00:52:28,563 --> 00:52:30,481
It's not anything
like my parents.
852
00:52:30,482 --> 00:52:33,985
Soon Mary will produce a work
that will surpass all of us.
853
00:52:35,821 --> 00:52:37,238
How about you,
Miss Clairmont?
854
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,199
Do you write or are there
other tricks you perform?
855
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,743
I have my own talents.
856
00:52:42,744 --> 00:52:46,163
- Claire is an accomplished singer.
- So she says.
857
00:52:46,164 --> 00:52:48,791
I'm yet to hear it.
858
00:52:48,792 --> 00:52:50,043
[Hogg]
Will you sing for us?
859
00:52:51,628 --> 00:52:56,841
I will sing, and if you
happen to overhear
860
00:52:56,842 --> 00:52:59,009
I suppose,
it can't be helped.
861
00:52:59,010 --> 00:53:02,514
She has spirit this one,
I can see why you keep her.
862
00:53:04,599 --> 00:53:09,270
♪ A sweet scented courtier did
give me a kiss ♪
863
00:53:09,271 --> 00:53:13,566
♪ And promised me rightly that
I would be his ♪
864
00:53:13,567 --> 00:53:16,819
♪ But I'll not believe him for
it is too true ♪
865
00:53:16,820 --> 00:53:20,739
♪ Courtiers promise much more
than they do ♪
866
00:53:20,740 --> 00:53:25,995
♪ My thing is my own
That I'll keep it so still ♪
867
00:53:25,996 --> 00:53:29,875
♪ Other young lassies can do
what they will ♪
868
00:53:32,878 --> 00:53:33,712
[door knocks]
869
00:53:35,422 --> 00:53:38,924
Ma'am, Mr. Hogg...
is here to see you.
870
00:53:38,925 --> 00:53:39,759
Mr. Hogg?
871
00:53:40,594 --> 00:53:41,720
Thank you, Eliza.
872
00:53:44,431 --> 00:53:46,808
Shelley will be sorry
to have missed you.
873
00:53:47,017 --> 00:53:48,475
Would you care to wait?
874
00:53:48,476 --> 00:53:49,561
I should like that very much,
Mary.
875
00:53:50,478 --> 00:53:52,564
- Are you hungry?
- I'm fine, thank you.
876
00:53:54,191 --> 00:53:55,357
You're writing?
877
00:53:55,358 --> 00:53:59,905
Ledgers. But it might
as well be Latin.
878
00:54:00,113 --> 00:54:01,072
Are you schooled in Latin?
879
00:54:01,281 --> 00:54:04,242
Yes, my father insisted
upon it.
880
00:54:04,451 --> 00:54:06,327
Why don't you sit down?
881
00:54:06,328 --> 00:54:08,663
I fear my Latin is not what
it was when I was at Oxford.
882
00:54:11,082 --> 00:54:13,335
May I...
practice upon you Mary?
883
00:54:14,669 --> 00:54:16,796
[Mary] I'm not sure I'd be of
much use to you.
884
00:54:18,298 --> 00:54:20,716
My mind is all over the place
these days.
885
00:54:20,717 --> 00:54:23,385
[quiet, ominous music ♪]
886
00:54:23,386 --> 00:54:26,598
Perhaps you should practice
upon me.
887
00:54:32,687 --> 00:54:36,023
[Claire] I cannot believe you
fired the servant for that, Shelley.
888
00:54:36,024 --> 00:54:37,483
Who do you think you are?
889
00:54:37,484 --> 00:54:38,235
[laughter]
890
00:54:40,904 --> 00:54:42,697
[laughter]
891
00:54:45,992 --> 00:54:47,035
Mary?
892
00:54:49,162 --> 00:54:50,997
What's wrong?
Is it the baby?
893
00:54:51,998 --> 00:54:54,709
Claire, could you
please leave us?
894
00:55:04,261 --> 00:55:05,512
Hogg came to the house.
895
00:55:07,889 --> 00:55:08,848
And then
896
00:55:11,685 --> 00:55:13,228
...he made an advance,
897
00:55:13,436 --> 00:55:16,522
- but I didn't, I-
- So you did not comply?
898
00:55:16,523 --> 00:55:20,776
Of course not.
I would never-
899
00:55:20,777 --> 00:55:23,529
Mary. Hey.
900
00:55:23,530 --> 00:55:27,450
I have no quarrel with you
and Thomas becoming lovers.
901
00:55:29,286 --> 00:55:30,787
Isn't this what
we believe in?
902
00:55:31,705 --> 00:55:33,498
Unconventional approaches
to living?
903
00:55:35,083 --> 00:55:36,793
After all, why should we not
have such an arrangement?
904
00:55:37,002 --> 00:55:38,128
I do not own you.
905
00:55:38,336 --> 00:55:40,338
You are free to be with
whomever you please.
906
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,050
Oh, but I don't want to be
with anyone else.
907
00:55:46,011 --> 00:55:49,264
Don't you believe that love
is free?
908
00:55:49,472 --> 00:55:52,183
Yes. Free to be
with one person...
909
00:55:52,392 --> 00:55:54,602
That is poor logic, Mary.
910
00:55:55,812 --> 00:55:57,688
Your choice means
nothing to me.
911
00:55:57,689 --> 00:56:00,942
What disappoints me is that
you wouldn't even consider it.
912
00:56:03,737 --> 00:56:05,655
Leads me to question how much
you value your beliefs
913
00:56:05,864 --> 00:56:08,408
when you will not
attempt to live them.
914
00:56:10,493 --> 00:56:13,538
I believe, with all my heart,
915
00:56:13,788 --> 00:56:16,708
there are all sorts
of ways of living.
916
00:56:16,916 --> 00:56:20,211
And I will fight for anyone's
right to live accordingly.
917
00:56:22,130 --> 00:56:25,925
But my truth is that there
is no one else for me.
918
00:56:33,641 --> 00:56:35,685
Do you wish to be with
someone else?
919
00:56:37,479 --> 00:56:39,814
I merely suggest that you do
not offer me
920
00:56:40,023 --> 00:56:41,691
the same freedoms
I offer you.
921
00:56:44,861 --> 00:56:48,114
You're a hypocrite.
Like your father.
922
00:56:50,742 --> 00:56:51,451
And you...
923
00:56:52,827 --> 00:56:55,789
are nothing close to the man
that I thought you were.
924
00:57:07,675 --> 00:57:10,387
[Mary, voiceover]
Wanting for my 'happily ever after',
925
00:57:10,595 --> 00:57:12,722
I lowered my defenses
926
00:57:12,931 --> 00:57:14,599
forgetting the first lesson
I was taught:
927
00:57:15,725 --> 00:57:17,976
that I was brought into this
world to be abandoned.
928
00:57:17,977 --> 00:57:20,063
That I am irrevocably alone.
929
00:57:23,733 --> 00:57:25,693
[pencil writing]
930
00:57:33,326 --> 00:57:34,243
[knock on the door]
931
00:57:34,244 --> 00:57:37,664
[dramatic, melancholy music ♪]
932
00:57:39,541 --> 00:57:40,417
[Shelley]
Mary.
933
00:57:48,967 --> 00:57:50,385
Are you not cold, Mary?
934
00:57:52,762 --> 00:57:54,639
My hypocrisy keeps me warm.
935
00:57:55,557 --> 00:57:57,600
As does my cloak
of disappointment.
936
00:57:59,394 --> 00:58:02,354
I'm going to tell Hogg not to
call here again.
937
00:58:02,355 --> 00:58:04,232
I already told him
with my fist.
938
00:58:06,484 --> 00:58:08,236
You have to understand,
Mary, that...
939
00:58:10,947 --> 00:58:14,909
...I have always
lived this way... to a fault.
940
00:58:18,455 --> 00:58:22,792
And I thought this was
something we both believed in.
941
00:58:26,504 --> 00:58:28,214
An ideal we shared.
942
00:58:30,341 --> 00:58:31,801
But had I truly considered it,
943
00:58:32,010 --> 00:58:34,761
had I let myself fully
understand what I was doing
944
00:58:34,762 --> 00:58:40,894
I would never let anything...
anything come between us.
945
00:58:46,774 --> 00:58:47,984
I have a surprise for you.
946
00:58:50,904 --> 00:58:51,905
We're going out.
947
00:58:54,866 --> 00:58:55,658
[door knocks]
948
00:58:58,244 --> 00:58:59,496
Well, what are
you waiting for?
949
00:59:03,541 --> 00:59:05,043
[chatter]
950
00:59:07,545 --> 00:59:10,214
Phantasmagoria. Starring
951
00:59:10,215 --> 00:59:12,050
Claire Clairmont,
yours truly.
952
00:59:14,969 --> 00:59:16,095
It's Lord Byron.
953
00:59:18,556 --> 00:59:19,641
Let us go and talk to him.
954
00:59:22,519 --> 00:59:23,645
Lord Byron!
955
00:59:27,023 --> 00:59:27,940
My Lord...
956
00:59:27,941 --> 00:59:30,901
may I introduce to you
the poet
957
00:59:30,902 --> 00:59:35,155
Percy Bysshe Shelley and a
great admirer of your work.
958
00:59:35,156 --> 00:59:36,658
I know Mr. Shelley.
959
00:59:37,408 --> 00:59:38,992
I enjoyed "Queen Mab".
960
00:59:38,993 --> 00:59:41,996
- Credit to you.
- Thank you.
961
00:59:49,837 --> 00:59:53,716
And now our final act,
Mr. Brycison the Galvanizer.
962
00:59:55,385 --> 00:59:57,971
Who amongst you has ever
wondered if the dead
963
00:59:58,179 --> 01:00:00,348
could return to life?
964
01:00:00,557 --> 01:00:02,600
Thanks to scientific
discovery,
965
01:00:02,809 --> 01:00:06,938
mankind is on the
cusp of conquering mortality.
966
01:00:11,150 --> 01:00:14,445
Using this frog
and an electrical current
967
01:00:19,701 --> 01:00:22,954
I will demonstrate how
muscular stimulation is possible
968
01:00:23,162 --> 01:00:25,039
via electrical means.
969
01:00:26,749 --> 01:00:30,503
Ladies and gentlemen, may I
introduce you to the process of...
970
01:00:31,212 --> 01:00:32,213
galvanism.
971
01:00:32,922 --> 01:00:34,089
[crowd gasps]
972
01:00:34,090 --> 01:00:36,092
[airy, dramatic music ♪]
973
01:00:46,436 --> 01:00:50,440
♪♪
974
01:01:35,943 --> 01:01:37,487
Is that really possible?
975
01:01:37,695 --> 01:01:40,447
That the dead could
come back to life?
976
01:01:40,448 --> 01:01:42,033
There is every possibility.
977
01:01:43,242 --> 01:01:45,036
That has brought you
back to life.
978
01:01:52,460 --> 01:01:57,798
Oh, Clara, you are
so beautiful... and tiny.
979
01:01:57,799 --> 01:01:59,926
Did you ever see
such tiny hands?
980
01:02:01,344 --> 01:02:02,969
She's so beautiful.
981
01:02:02,970 --> 01:02:05,390
Almost as beautiful as you,
my love.
982
01:02:07,016 --> 01:02:08,518
Mary, can I get you anything?
983
01:02:09,686 --> 01:02:11,020
I have all I need.
984
01:02:13,272 --> 01:02:15,274
And what a trio we will be.
985
01:02:17,527 --> 01:02:18,945
Yes, she agrees.
986
01:02:20,238 --> 01:02:22,699
[Shelley] You agree?
We're gonna be a trio.
987
01:02:23,825 --> 01:02:26,952
You're gonna be our special
little prodigy. Yeah.
988
01:02:26,953 --> 01:02:29,997
[light, mysterious music ♪]
989
01:02:51,853 --> 01:02:54,229
[Mary singing quietly]
990
01:02:54,230 --> 01:02:57,649
[Mary, voiceover] I can scarcely believe that one small being can be responsible
991
01:02:57,650 --> 01:02:58,609
for such joy.
992
01:03:00,486 --> 01:03:03,864
Is all that is truly required
is that we live well, be happy,
993
01:03:03,865 --> 01:03:05,491
and make others so?
994
01:03:07,493 --> 01:03:10,872
♪ Over the hills and far... ♪
995
01:03:14,459 --> 01:03:16,294
She's sleeping.
996
01:03:18,129 --> 01:03:19,963
[cooing]
997
01:03:19,964 --> 01:03:26,429
[rainfall]
998
01:03:38,816 --> 01:03:40,276
We must leave at once.
999
01:03:41,152 --> 01:03:42,028
What do you mean?
1000
01:03:43,905 --> 01:03:44,906
What has happened?
1001
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:47,241
Creditors are coming.
1002
01:03:49,118 --> 01:03:51,828
- Percy. Clara's not well.
- Mary, we do not have time to discuss this.
1003
01:03:51,829 --> 01:03:53,622
It's raining outside.
[door banging]
1004
01:03:53,623 --> 01:03:54,499
We can't take her.
1005
01:03:54,749 --> 01:03:56,792
The doctor said she
must keep warm.
1006
01:03:56,793 --> 01:03:58,376
[Clara crying]
We have no choice.
1007
01:03:58,377 --> 01:03:59,503
Claire, are you ready?
1008
01:03:59,504 --> 01:04:01,421
Percy.
1009
01:04:01,422 --> 01:04:04,049
Eliza,
do not tell them anything.
1010
01:04:04,050 --> 01:04:05,425
Claire.
1011
01:04:05,426 --> 01:04:07,803
[dramatic music ♪]
[pounding on the door]
1012
01:04:07,804 --> 01:04:09,555
Mary. Come.
1013
01:04:11,974 --> 01:04:12,892
Please.
1014
01:04:19,273 --> 01:04:20,942
We must get back
to St. Pancras.
1015
01:04:22,193 --> 01:04:23,236
They won't find us there.
1016
01:04:26,906 --> 01:04:27,698
Mary!
1017
01:04:28,449 --> 01:04:29,866
[Clara coughing]
1018
01:04:29,867 --> 01:04:31,035
Mary, please.
1019
01:04:40,795 --> 01:04:42,755
[Clara crying, coughing]
1020
01:04:43,714 --> 01:04:46,717
♪♪
1021
01:04:51,013 --> 01:04:52,515
She needs shelter now.
1022
01:05:04,652 --> 01:05:07,613
[silence]
1023
01:05:15,872 --> 01:05:16,664
[Shelley, whispering]
Mary...
1024
01:05:18,791 --> 01:05:21,419
it breaks my heart to see you
like this.
1025
01:05:22,545 --> 01:05:27,675
The doctor told you, Clara
was never for this world.
1026
01:05:30,344 --> 01:05:31,429
What about your books?
1027
01:05:33,097 --> 01:05:35,516
I mean surely there is
something you would like to read?
1028
01:05:37,226 --> 01:05:38,561
The books?
1029
01:05:40,187 --> 01:05:43,190
The books survived the
creditors, didn't they?
1030
01:05:45,026 --> 01:05:47,444
I miss her, too, Mary.
1031
01:05:47,445 --> 01:05:48,821
Desperately.
1032
01:05:50,114 --> 01:05:53,743
Desperately. But I don't
want to lose you as well.
1033
01:06:01,459 --> 01:06:02,752
Leave me alone.
1034
01:06:10,968 --> 01:06:12,803
[fire crackling]
1035
01:06:30,446 --> 01:06:34,824
[church bells]
1036
01:06:34,825 --> 01:06:37,244
[melancholy dramatic music ♪]
1037
01:06:44,877 --> 01:06:47,712
[Shelley, voiceover]
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead
1038
01:06:47,713 --> 01:06:51,550
Are heaped
for the beloved's bed
1039
01:06:52,593 --> 01:06:56,888
And so thy thoughts
When thou art gone
1040
01:06:56,889 --> 01:07:01,852
Love itself shall slumber on
1041
01:07:07,817 --> 01:07:12,612
[Mary, voiceover]
♪ Tommy was a piper's son ♪
1042
01:07:12,613 --> 01:07:18,118
♪ He learned to play
when he was young ♪
1043
01:07:18,119 --> 01:07:25,458
♪ The only tune
that he could play ♪
1044
01:07:25,459 --> 01:07:28,253
[baby wails]
1045
01:07:28,254 --> 01:07:31,257
[dramatic music swells ♪]
1046
01:08:31,525 --> 01:08:34,694
[Mary, voiceover]
You'll come to me in dreams, my love.
1047
01:08:34,695 --> 01:08:36,655
I will not ask a
dearer bliss.
1048
01:08:43,245 --> 01:08:45,247
I dreamed of her last night.
1049
01:08:46,165 --> 01:08:48,709
That we lit a fire in the
fireplace
1050
01:08:48,918 --> 01:08:52,295
and the fire's warmth
nursed her back to life.
1051
01:08:52,296 --> 01:08:53,255
[door creaks]
1052
01:08:55,091 --> 01:08:58,385
[Claire] My love, I haven't
seen you smile at me in weeks.
1053
01:08:59,804 --> 01:09:01,180
[Man] Oh, Claire.
1054
01:09:21,951 --> 01:09:26,871
- He invited you to Geneva?
- No, Mary. Lord Byron has invited us.
1055
01:09:26,872 --> 01:09:30,501
- Us?
- You, me and Shelley. All of us.
1056
01:09:31,752 --> 01:09:34,672
Do you think you are the only
one who can attract a poet?
1057
01:09:36,423 --> 01:09:41,720
No, Claire. In fact I am
very aware of your abilities.
1058
01:09:45,641 --> 01:09:48,185
But... we have to go.
1059
01:09:50,020 --> 01:09:51,105
I am pregnant.
1060
01:09:55,818 --> 01:09:56,986
Who's the father?
1061
01:09:59,905 --> 01:10:03,409
Mary. Mary, it is Byron's,
of course.
1062
01:10:06,745 --> 01:10:09,831
I've been meeting him
in secret for quite some time now.
1063
01:10:09,832 --> 01:10:11,791
Don't you see?
1064
01:10:11,792 --> 01:10:15,378
Geneva will give me the chance to talk to him,
away from the crowds of London.
1065
01:10:15,379 --> 01:10:18,798
I mean you, of all people,
should know that this city loves a scandal.
1066
01:10:18,799 --> 01:10:20,675
[footsteps approaching]
1067
01:10:20,676 --> 01:10:23,929
Shelley, we've been invited
to Geneva by Lord Byron.
1068
01:10:25,514 --> 01:10:28,349
Lord Byron? Oh my word!
1069
01:10:28,350 --> 01:10:30,852
This is
an unmissable opportunity.
1070
01:10:30,853 --> 01:10:34,564
This could help us immensely.
Um...
1071
01:10:34,565 --> 01:10:36,775
- [Claire speaks indistinctly]
- I'm not ready for this.
1072
01:10:40,404 --> 01:10:41,654
Mary.
1073
01:10:41,655 --> 01:10:45,784
Percy, I don't think I'm
ready for this. Please.
1074
01:10:47,203 --> 01:10:49,788
- Not yet.
- Oh, Mary, I miss her too.
1075
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,043
Oh,
I wish I could have saved her.
1076
01:10:57,046 --> 01:10:59,506
I'm not asking you to let go
of her, Mary.
1077
01:11:00,549 --> 01:11:03,135
I'm just asking you to raise
above your grief.
1078
01:11:04,428 --> 01:11:08,098
To raise her spirit to the
great heights she deserves.
1079
01:11:18,859 --> 01:11:21,904
[children playing
in the distance]
1080
01:11:32,873 --> 01:11:35,918
[dramatic music ♪]
1081
01:11:56,730 --> 01:11:57,773
Thank you.
1082
01:12:01,527 --> 01:12:04,153
I was surprised to hear you
were staying here?
1083
01:12:04,154 --> 01:12:06,030
Most tourists come to gawk at
the place.
1084
01:12:06,031 --> 01:12:08,117
We've become accustomed
to prying eyes ourselves.
1085
01:12:08,325 --> 01:12:09,325
I'm sure we'll manage.
1086
01:12:09,326 --> 01:12:10,494
Mr. Shelley!
1087
01:12:26,635 --> 01:12:30,139
It is a pleasure to make
your acquaintance once more.
1088
01:12:32,641 --> 01:12:35,019
I received Miss Clairmont's
letter yesterday
1089
01:12:35,227 --> 01:12:37,354
alerting me
of this impending arrival.
1090
01:12:37,563 --> 01:12:39,481
My Lord, it is an honor.
1091
01:12:39,690 --> 01:12:42,776
And may I introduce Miss Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin?
1092
01:12:46,864 --> 01:12:47,865
Miss Godwin.
1093
01:12:49,742 --> 01:12:54,620
Forgive me but there is a
smile hidden inside of you, I can see it.
1094
01:12:54,621 --> 01:12:59,459
And it is
beautiful and brutal.
1095
01:12:59,460 --> 01:13:03,296
And I hope that before long I
can coax it outside of you.
1096
01:13:03,297 --> 01:13:05,799
And there she is.
1097
01:13:08,510 --> 01:13:09,552
My Lord.
1098
01:13:09,553 --> 01:13:11,513
Claire.
1099
01:13:12,598 --> 01:13:14,600
[giggles]
1100
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:22,023
Claire, I must remember next
time that to mention travel plans to you
1101
01:13:22,024 --> 01:13:23,524
is tantamount
to an invitation.
1102
01:13:23,525 --> 01:13:28,488
My Lord, I apologize. I fear
there's been some confusion.
1103
01:13:28,489 --> 01:13:31,491
If our visit is an imposition, we will
seek lodging elsewhere.
1104
01:13:31,492 --> 01:13:33,868
Please, don't concern yourselves.
You must stay here as my guests.
1105
01:13:33,869 --> 01:13:35,203
Things have been getting
bloody boring round here and I
1106
01:13:35,204 --> 01:13:36,789
will be grateful
for the distraction.
1107
01:13:36,997 --> 01:13:40,376
In fact there is the Duke
of Dulldom himself, Doctor Polidori.
1108
01:13:41,335 --> 01:13:42,169
Come with me.
1109
01:13:44,922 --> 01:13:47,925
♪♪
1110
01:13:49,051 --> 01:13:51,052
Doctor Polidori, Miss Godwin.
1111
01:13:51,053 --> 01:13:52,137
She doesn't smile.
1112
01:13:53,138 --> 01:13:54,390
Charmed, Miss Godwin.
1113
01:13:56,475 --> 01:13:58,977
[laughter]
1114
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:05,567
Don't embarrass the servants.
1115
01:14:06,610 --> 01:14:09,946
Are you a Doctor of Science,
Doctor Polidori?
1116
01:14:09,947 --> 01:14:12,449
I'm sorry to disappoint Miss Godwin
but I'm a physician.
1117
01:14:12,658 --> 01:14:13,866
Science fascinates Mary.
1118
01:14:13,867 --> 01:14:15,952
Why is being a physician disappointing.
You save lives.
1119
01:14:15,953 --> 01:14:17,703
You bring babies
into the world.
1120
01:14:17,704 --> 01:14:19,580
You help poets with their
sleeping disorders.
1121
01:14:19,581 --> 01:14:22,334
Doctor Polidori wrote
his thesis on the subject.
1122
01:14:22,543 --> 01:14:25,337
And, conveniently, I've become
quite the somnambulist in his presence.
1123
01:14:26,839 --> 01:14:29,841
Well, I hope we can liven
things up for you a little, My Lord.
1124
01:14:29,842 --> 01:14:31,885
I'm sure you will try,
Miss Clairmont.
1125
01:14:34,388 --> 01:14:36,347
Would you like to join me in
the parlor, Mr. Shelley?
1126
01:14:36,348 --> 01:14:37,558
Of course.
1127
01:14:42,521 --> 01:14:44,564
Perhaps you'll be more
comfortable conversing with
1128
01:14:44,565 --> 01:14:46,483
Claire and Doctor Polidori,
my love.
1129
01:14:52,990 --> 01:14:53,824
Byron...
1130
01:15:08,755 --> 01:15:11,924
I must say,
the decor is interesting.
1131
01:15:11,925 --> 01:15:15,428
Byron likes to record
his 'grand ideas'
1132
01:15:15,429 --> 01:15:17,597
on slips of paper and tack
them up on the wall.
1133
01:15:17,598 --> 01:15:19,308
You should see the one
in the parlor.
1134
01:15:19,516 --> 01:15:21,768
Gets littered with paper when
we have company,
1135
01:15:21,977 --> 01:15:23,854
or when he's stimulated.
1136
01:15:24,563 --> 01:15:25,564
[giggles]
1137
01:15:29,151 --> 01:15:32,154
[airy, dramatic music ♪]
1138
01:15:38,619 --> 01:15:42,246
[Byron]
This is poetry, my brother.
1139
01:15:42,247 --> 01:15:46,834
'On Death' by the
incomparable yours truly.
1140
01:15:46,835 --> 01:15:48,837
Third stanza!
Summon the muse.
1141
01:15:51,673 --> 01:15:54,383
[imitating monkey]
1142
01:15:54,384 --> 01:15:57,845
The world is the nurse
of all we know
1143
01:15:57,846 --> 01:16:01,557
This world the mother
of all we feel
1144
01:16:01,558 --> 01:16:05,019
And the coming of death
is a fearful blow
1145
01:16:05,020 --> 01:16:08,773
To the brain unencompassed
with nerves of steel
1146
01:16:08,774 --> 01:16:10,107
When all we know
1147
01:16:10,108 --> 01:16:12,652
or feel
or see
1148
01:16:12,653 --> 01:16:16,031
Shall pass like an
unreal mystery!
1149
01:16:18,325 --> 01:16:19,910
[Polidori]
I found this article
1150
01:16:20,118 --> 01:16:22,037
and recalled your
interest in science.
1151
01:16:29,378 --> 01:16:32,673
Is this possible?
Reanimation?
1152
01:16:34,591 --> 01:16:35,676
That is the claim.
1153
01:16:35,884 --> 01:16:39,054
Applying the principle of
galvanism to human corpses.
1154
01:16:40,764 --> 01:16:43,183
Every lady in the land
knows this.
1155
01:16:44,518 --> 01:16:47,520
She walks in beauty
Like the night...
1156
01:16:47,521 --> 01:16:50,439
of cloudless
Climes and starry skies
1157
01:16:50,440 --> 01:16:53,442
And all that's bright
Of dark and light
1158
01:16:53,443 --> 01:16:54,819
- What?!
- Bright! Bright, bright, bright!
1159
01:16:54,820 --> 01:16:56,821
All that's best of
dark and bright
1160
01:16:56,822 --> 01:16:57,863
Meet in the aspect
of her eyes
1161
01:16:57,864 --> 01:16:59,282
That's mellow to
1162
01:16:59,283 --> 01:17:02,159
thy tender light which heaven to
gaudy day deny
1163
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:04,079
[Polidori] I was sorry to hear
about your baby.
1164
01:17:09,001 --> 01:17:10,335
Her name was Clara.
1165
01:17:11,837 --> 01:17:13,130
I don't mean to upset you.
1166
01:17:14,423 --> 01:17:17,676
No. No, you haven't at all.
1167
01:17:20,178 --> 01:17:22,097
I thank you for speaking
of her.
1168
01:17:26,810 --> 01:17:29,854
It's an unspeakable cruelty
for a woman to lose a child.
1169
01:17:29,855 --> 01:17:32,441
I've seen it more times than
I care to remember.
1170
01:17:35,319 --> 01:17:37,029
I'm in awe of you,
Miss Godwin
1171
01:17:37,738 --> 01:17:42,450
and your strength
to survive it.
1172
01:17:42,451 --> 01:17:43,535
Drink!
1173
01:17:44,578 --> 01:17:46,204
Drink. Drink.
1174
01:17:54,630 --> 01:17:56,506
Why not?
Why would I not be sure?
1175
01:18:11,146 --> 01:18:16,692
It's called 'The Nightmare -
The Curse Of The Incubus'.
1176
01:18:16,693 --> 01:18:21,531
The Angel fallen from grace
because of insatiable lust.
1177
01:18:24,117 --> 01:18:25,494
You know the painter,
don't you?
1178
01:18:27,746 --> 01:18:28,747
Henry Fuseli.
1179
01:18:31,291 --> 01:18:33,001
He was my mother's
first love.
1180
01:18:34,294 --> 01:18:36,921
She tried to kill herself
with an overdose of laudanum
1181
01:18:36,922 --> 01:18:38,965
when he left her for
another woman.
1182
01:18:42,010 --> 01:18:45,304
I've never reconciled how
someone as strong as my mother
1183
01:18:45,305 --> 01:18:47,808
was so vulnerable when it
came to love.
1184
01:18:49,518 --> 01:18:52,938
Love will find its way
through paths
1185
01:18:53,146 --> 01:18:56,190
where wolves
would fear to prey.
1186
01:18:56,191 --> 01:18:59,111
[Mary] But if she wasn't impervious
to the pain of heartbreak
1187
01:19:00,445 --> 01:19:02,614
what hope is there for the
rest of us?
1188
01:19:05,409 --> 01:19:09,746
The great art of
life is sensation.
1189
01:19:10,706 --> 01:19:14,250
To feel that you exist,
even in pain.
1190
01:19:14,251 --> 01:19:15,419
I mean would you
not die for love?
1191
01:19:16,837 --> 01:19:21,091
After all, what is life if it
does not have love?
1192
01:19:22,884 --> 01:19:25,053
Nothing,
according to you poets.
1193
01:19:27,597 --> 01:19:28,598
You are...
1194
01:19:32,477 --> 01:19:34,186
I've always believed
that a woman
1195
01:19:34,187 --> 01:19:38,107
should be intelligent enough
to understand what I'm saying but
1196
01:19:38,108 --> 01:19:42,028
not intelligent enough to be
able to form ideas or...
1197
01:19:42,237 --> 01:19:43,821
opinions of her own.
1198
01:19:43,822 --> 01:19:47,116
You, Miss Godwin, have the
chance to prove me wrong.
1199
01:19:47,117 --> 01:19:49,536
[piano crash]
1200
01:19:51,079 --> 01:19:52,622
Play us a tune, Shelley.
1201
01:20:00,297 --> 01:20:03,216
[revelry]
1202
01:20:03,508 --> 01:20:04,341
♪♪
1203
01:20:04,342 --> 01:20:05,719
[thunder]
1204
01:20:14,436 --> 01:20:18,690
Oh, this infernal copying.
I'm bored of it.
1205
01:20:19,733 --> 01:20:23,445
I can't transcribe another
word of these poems.
1206
01:20:30,285 --> 01:20:32,204
It's been raining like this
for weeks.
1207
01:20:33,121 --> 01:20:34,914
We're all going to go insane.
1208
01:20:34,915 --> 01:20:37,416
Can't anyone think of ways to
pass the time?
1209
01:20:37,417 --> 01:20:40,962
- Mary, please.
- No. She's right.
1210
01:20:46,426 --> 01:20:47,384
Listen.
1211
01:20:47,385 --> 01:20:50,388
[wind howling]
1212
01:20:51,973 --> 01:20:54,768
There are witches
in the wind.
1213
01:20:57,270 --> 01:20:58,021
I have an idea.
1214
01:21:02,484 --> 01:21:07,864
We are, each one of us,
to write a story.
1215
01:21:10,534 --> 01:21:11,451
A ghost story.
1216
01:21:16,206 --> 01:21:17,373
It's a competition,
of course.
1217
01:21:17,374 --> 01:21:21,962
Whoever writes the
finest story shall win.
1218
01:21:26,550 --> 01:21:30,679
[Lord Byron, voiceover]
Miss Clairmont... you...
1219
01:21:31,847 --> 01:21:35,350
...your job is to
transcribe them.
1220
01:21:37,435 --> 01:21:38,478
How dare you?
1221
01:21:39,771 --> 01:21:43,024
What right do you have
to treat me like this?
1222
01:21:43,441 --> 01:21:44,484
Your lover.
1223
01:21:46,403 --> 01:21:47,612
Claire...
1224
01:21:50,407 --> 01:21:51,992
...you are not my lover.
1225
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:55,579
You are a dalliance.
1226
01:21:56,413 --> 01:21:58,206
A lapse in judgement.
1227
01:21:59,708 --> 01:22:03,587
A silly little girl.
1228
01:22:13,054 --> 01:22:15,140
I'm sorry,
have I caused a scene?
1229
01:22:19,853 --> 01:22:21,897
[airy, dramatic music ♪]
1230
01:22:24,858 --> 01:22:28,236
Sir, I have an urgent message
arrived from London.
1231
01:22:34,910 --> 01:22:36,369
Claire!
1232
01:22:51,217 --> 01:22:52,552
Is everything alright, sir?
1233
01:23:03,730 --> 01:23:04,564
Claire.
1234
01:23:06,232 --> 01:23:08,610
Why,
why must they be so vile?
1235
01:23:16,368 --> 01:23:18,745
Don't let such
cruelty wound you.
1236
01:23:19,871 --> 01:23:23,415
You're stronger than you
realize and you don't need
1237
01:23:23,416 --> 01:23:24,542
anything from them.
1238
01:23:26,294 --> 01:23:28,295
You don't need anything
from them.
1239
01:23:28,296 --> 01:23:31,299
♪♪
1240
01:23:37,639 --> 01:23:38,932
Thank you, Mary.
1241
01:24:10,338 --> 01:24:11,172
[Byron]
No!
1242
01:24:12,382 --> 01:24:14,050
- I need to speak to you.
- [Byron] No!
1243
01:24:39,576 --> 01:24:40,743
[thunder]
1244
01:24:40,744 --> 01:24:45,707
♪♪
1245
01:25:31,336 --> 01:25:34,047
[Mary, voiceover]
I no longer see the world...
1246
01:25:34,255 --> 01:25:36,048
and its works as they before
1247
01:25:36,049 --> 01:25:37,342
appeared to me.
1248
01:25:38,343 --> 01:25:39,511
But now misery has come home...
1249
01:25:41,387 --> 01:25:46,476
and men appear to me as monsters...
thirsting for each other's blood.
1250
01:25:48,728 --> 01:25:51,480
And I, a miserable spectacle
of wrecked humanity...
1251
01:25:51,481 --> 01:25:54,943
pitiable to others and
intolerable to myself.
1252
01:25:58,822 --> 01:26:00,405
Has Claire risen?
1253
01:26:00,406 --> 01:26:03,201
She sent down word.
She is feeling unwell this morning.
1254
01:26:03,409 --> 01:26:04,494
[scoffs]
1255
01:26:04,702 --> 01:26:05,870
Where is Shelley?
1256
01:26:08,414 --> 01:26:09,832
I had assumed
he was with you.
1257
01:26:09,833 --> 01:26:11,750
[Shelley stumbling]
1258
01:26:11,751 --> 01:26:12,752
[laughter]
1259
01:26:13,628 --> 01:26:15,004
I think we've found him.
1260
01:26:16,798 --> 01:26:18,675
Mr. Shelley.
1261
01:26:20,885 --> 01:26:23,637
You look like you could do
with some breakfast.
1262
01:26:23,638 --> 01:26:24,597
Do I?
1263
01:26:26,641 --> 01:26:28,225
How were the taverns?
1264
01:26:28,226 --> 01:26:30,061
Disgusting.
1265
01:26:32,147 --> 01:26:35,692
I, uh,
I started upon my story.
1266
01:26:36,776 --> 01:26:38,318
I've called it 'The Vampyre'.
1267
01:26:38,319 --> 01:26:41,530
Very well. Well we have our
first story.
1268
01:26:41,531 --> 01:26:43,449
A vampire.
1269
01:26:44,576 --> 01:26:48,412
I thought the challenge
was a-was a ghost story?
1270
01:26:48,413 --> 01:26:50,456
Not a childish superstition.
1271
01:26:51,499 --> 01:26:54,084
You do not believe in
vampires, Mr. Shelley?
1272
01:26:54,085 --> 01:26:56,795
No more than I believe
in physicians.
1273
01:26:56,796 --> 01:26:58,381
Percy, that's quite enough.
1274
01:27:05,722 --> 01:27:07,556
I thought you would
know intimately
1275
01:27:07,557 --> 01:27:09,517
about the existence
of nocturnal beings
1276
01:27:09,726 --> 01:27:11,102
who exploit the vulnerable.
1277
01:27:19,068 --> 01:27:20,569
[laughter]
1278
01:27:20,570 --> 01:27:23,948
- Did you just slap him?
- Madam, you have my sympathy.
1279
01:27:26,534 --> 01:27:31,206
No story from Polidori.
How disappointing.
1280
01:27:32,332 --> 01:27:34,876
Whatever shall we do to
entertain ourselves now?
1281
01:27:41,466 --> 01:27:43,092
Well I'm going to go riding.
1282
01:27:47,639 --> 01:27:49,849
I need something thick
between my legs.
1283
01:27:53,686 --> 01:27:55,271
What's wrong with you?
1284
01:27:56,147 --> 01:27:57,148
You think I'm an idiot.
1285
01:27:58,524 --> 01:28:00,317
Oh, you claim no interest
in Hogg. That's alright.
1286
01:28:00,318 --> 01:28:01,735
But the good doctor,
1287
01:28:01,736 --> 01:28:05,822
oh yes, he's more to your
liking, isn't he?
1288
01:28:05,823 --> 01:28:07,116
Where were you all night?
1289
01:28:07,575 --> 01:28:10,453
I do not have to justify
myself to you or to anyone!
1290
01:28:11,955 --> 01:28:15,958
- You have no idea the responsibilities I bear.
- What responsibilities?
1291
01:28:15,959 --> 01:28:17,835
She drowned herself, Mary.
1292
01:28:19,796 --> 01:28:23,924
Threw herself in the filthy
water at Battersea.
1293
01:28:23,925 --> 01:28:24,717
Who?
1294
01:28:26,886 --> 01:28:28,346
Harriet.
1295
01:28:30,473 --> 01:28:31,391
My wife.
1296
01:28:32,100 --> 01:28:35,103
[gentle, dramatic music ♪]
1297
01:28:44,946 --> 01:28:46,572
It's time that we
left this place.
1298
01:28:53,037 --> 01:28:54,162
Claire?
1299
01:28:54,163 --> 01:28:55,665
He doesn't want me.
1300
01:28:57,625 --> 01:28:59,167
He said...
1301
01:28:59,168 --> 01:29:04,549
he said that he will provide
for the baby but that is all.
1302
01:29:11,806 --> 01:29:12,807
[crying]
1303
01:29:14,350 --> 01:29:18,021
It's been such a mistake.
Mary.
1304
01:29:19,522 --> 01:29:20,982
A mistake.
1305
01:29:21,399 --> 01:29:24,402
♪♪
1306
01:29:53,890 --> 01:29:55,683
I wanted to say goodbye
1307
01:29:58,061 --> 01:30:01,731
to thank you
for your hospitality.
1308
01:30:05,651 --> 01:30:07,195
I know what you
must think of me
1309
01:30:09,197 --> 01:30:12,033
but I have never considered
myself one for fatherhood.
1310
01:30:13,910 --> 01:30:16,454
I am under no illusions about
your situation.
1311
01:30:18,331 --> 01:30:20,624
Claire, unfortunately...
1312
01:30:20,625 --> 01:30:22,209
I never loved her.
1313
01:30:22,210 --> 01:30:24,211
Nor did I pretend
to love her.
1314
01:30:24,212 --> 01:30:27,715
Nor do I believe
she loved me.
1315
01:30:27,924 --> 01:30:30,843
But a man is a man,
1316
01:30:31,594 --> 01:30:33,262
and a girl is a girl.
1317
01:30:33,471 --> 01:30:37,974
And when a young girl comes
prancing to an old man at all hours...
1318
01:30:37,975 --> 01:30:40,561
...there is but one way.
1319
01:30:42,188 --> 01:30:44,565
There is always another way.
1320
01:30:46,734 --> 01:30:49,153
And when we make such
choices,
1321
01:30:49,362 --> 01:30:52,073
there are
inevitably consequences.
1322
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,265
Always see.
1323
01:31:24,105 --> 01:31:25,356
Safe travels, Mary.
1324
01:31:27,108 --> 01:31:29,359
I look forward to reading
your work some day.
1325
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:32,363
♪♪
1326
01:32:27,752 --> 01:32:29,962
[Godwin, voiceover]
Rid yourself of the thoughts
1327
01:32:30,171 --> 01:32:32,006
and words of other people, Mary.
1328
01:32:35,051 --> 01:32:36,511
Find your own voice.
1329
01:33:02,745 --> 01:33:06,582
[Mary, voiceover] It was a dreary
night of November and...
1330
01:33:08,584 --> 01:33:11,419
It was a dreary night
of November
1331
01:33:11,420 --> 01:33:15,423
that I beheld the
accomplishment of my toils.
1332
01:33:15,424 --> 01:33:19,928
[dramatic music rising ♪]
1333
01:33:19,929 --> 01:33:22,306
Remember that
I am thy creature.
1334
01:33:24,058 --> 01:33:26,269
I ought to be thy Adam
1335
01:33:26,477 --> 01:33:29,980
but I am rather
the fallen angel
1336
01:33:29,981 --> 01:33:33,234
whom thou drivest from joy
for no misdeed.
1337
01:33:36,946 --> 01:33:39,031
Everywhere I see bliss...
1338
01:33:42,493 --> 01:33:43,327
...from which...
1339
01:33:44,036 --> 01:33:44,829
[match strike]
1340
01:33:46,497 --> 01:33:51,460
...from which, from which I
alone am irrevocably excluded.
1341
01:33:53,546 --> 01:33:58,759
I was benevolent and good
Misery made me a fiend
1342
01:33:59,552 --> 01:34:01,803
Make me happy.
1343
01:34:01,804 --> 01:34:04,890
And I shall again
be virtuous.
1344
01:34:06,142 --> 01:34:08,561
"But soon", he cried
1345
01:34:10,021 --> 01:34:11,314
"I shall die
1346
01:34:12,481 --> 01:34:15,109
and what I now feel be no
longer felt.
1347
01:34:19,155 --> 01:34:20,406
Soon...
1348
01:34:21,407 --> 01:34:25,536
these burning miseries will
be extinct.
1349
01:34:35,630 --> 01:34:40,676
I shall ascend my funeral
pyre triumphantly
1350
01:34:41,969 --> 01:34:45,973
and exult in the agony of the
torturing flames.
1351
01:34:47,350 --> 01:34:52,103
My spirit will sleep in peace
or if it thinks
1352
01:34:52,104 --> 01:34:55,024
it will not surely
think thus.
1353
01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:58,319
Farewell."
1354
01:35:05,660 --> 01:35:07,995
The End.
1355
01:36:12,977 --> 01:36:14,854
[Shelley, whispering]
Mary. Mary.
1356
01:36:19,233 --> 01:36:20,651
It is magnificent.
1357
01:36:22,153 --> 01:36:25,739
It exceeds even what I
believed you capable of.
1358
01:36:25,740 --> 01:36:27,283
It has so much potential.
1359
01:36:28,534 --> 01:36:29,952
I just have one question.
1360
01:36:31,203 --> 01:36:34,330
The doctor, he gets all
these body parts
1361
01:36:34,331 --> 01:36:38,042
and he sews them together in order
to make the most perfect creature
1362
01:36:38,043 --> 01:36:42,088
But when he brings it to life, essentially
what he has created is a kind of monster.
1363
01:36:42,089 --> 01:36:42,882
Yes.
1364
01:36:44,091 --> 01:36:46,218
Well couldn't it be
something more-
1365
01:36:46,427 --> 01:36:47,887
something more hopeful?
1366
01:36:48,095 --> 01:36:51,098
Imagine if he could create
the perfect being.
1367
01:36:51,849 --> 01:36:52,892
Um, an angel.
1368
01:36:53,893 --> 01:36:55,310
An angel?!
1369
01:36:55,311 --> 01:36:58,855
Yes, and in doing so he could
show what Man can be.
1370
01:36:58,856 --> 01:37:02,442
He creates a version of ourselves
that shines with goodness
1371
01:37:02,443 --> 01:37:05,446
and thus, thus delivers
a message for mankind.
1372
01:37:06,739 --> 01:37:08,324
It is a message for mankind.
1373
01:37:09,492 --> 01:37:12,869
Well I, I mean a message of
hope and of perfection.
1374
01:37:12,870 --> 01:37:13,871
What would you-
1375
01:37:14,079 --> 01:37:17,291
what would we know of
hope and perfection?
1376
01:37:21,962 --> 01:37:23,088
Look around you.
1377
01:37:25,174 --> 01:37:26,967
Look at the mess we've made.
1378
01:37:28,469 --> 01:37:29,637
Look at me.
1379
01:37:45,402 --> 01:37:46,779
It makes sense this way.
1380
01:37:50,741 --> 01:37:52,243
I'll take it to my
publisher
1381
01:37:52,451 --> 01:37:54,829
- and I will convince--
- No. I will go alone.
1382
01:38:02,670 --> 01:38:03,838
[door closes]
1383
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:09,718
[Publisher]
You are how old, Miss Godwin?
1384
01:38:12,263 --> 01:38:13,264
I am 18.
1385
01:38:14,473 --> 01:38:15,641
[Publisher]
That really is quite young.
1386
01:38:17,601 --> 01:38:19,645
If I'm old enough to bear
children,
1387
01:38:19,854 --> 01:38:21,938
I'm old enough to
put pen to paper.
1388
01:38:21,939 --> 01:38:25,859
Curious subject matter for a
young lady, wouldn't you say?
1389
01:38:25,860 --> 01:38:31,030
And when that young lady just
happens to be the wife, uh...
1390
01:38:31,031 --> 01:38:35,077
companion of Mr. Shelley...
1391
01:38:37,580 --> 01:38:41,207
Are you suggesting the work
belongs to Mr. Shelley?
1392
01:38:41,208 --> 01:38:46,671
Well, perhaps there are some other
writings of yours that I could compare it to?
1393
01:38:46,672 --> 01:38:47,965
It is my story.
1394
01:38:48,757 --> 01:38:50,384
Did you ask this of Mr. Shelley
1395
01:38:50,593 --> 01:38:52,803
when he first
presented his work to you?
1396
01:38:53,012 --> 01:38:56,098
Or do you save this insult
for young women?
1397
01:38:56,307 --> 01:38:57,224
And you dare...
1398
01:38:57,433 --> 01:38:59,184
to question a
woman's ability
1399
01:38:59,393 --> 01:39:02,813
to experience
loss, death...
1400
01:39:03,272 --> 01:39:05,024
...betrayal.
1401
01:39:05,232 --> 01:39:07,484
All of which is present
in this story.
1402
01:39:07,693 --> 01:39:09,111
In my story.
1403
01:39:11,405 --> 01:39:12,865
Which you would have realized
1404
01:39:13,073 --> 01:39:15,450
if you'd employed the time
judging the work
1405
01:39:15,451 --> 01:39:16,827
instead of judging me.
1406
01:39:22,458 --> 01:39:26,462
[chatter]
[carriage passing]
1407
01:39:31,342 --> 01:39:32,134
[door closes]
1408
01:39:35,930 --> 01:39:36,889
Did you finish it?
1409
01:39:39,141 --> 01:39:40,392
Yes.
1410
01:39:41,852 --> 01:39:43,562
It chilled me to the bone.
1411
01:39:46,357 --> 01:39:48,525
It's good to enjoy a ghost
story now and then.
1412
01:39:50,319 --> 01:39:52,154
We both know this is
no ghost story.
1413
01:39:55,991 --> 01:39:58,160
I've never read such a...
1414
01:39:58,369 --> 01:40:00,371
perfect encapsulation...
1415
01:40:00,579 --> 01:40:03,415
of what
it feels to be abandoned.
1416
01:40:06,168 --> 01:40:08,212
I seethed with your
monster's rage.
1417
01:40:10,297 --> 01:40:11,799
I lusted for his revenge.
1418
01:40:15,052 --> 01:40:16,637
Because it was my own.
1419
01:40:17,179 --> 01:40:20,182
[gentle, dramatic music ♪]
1420
01:40:25,854 --> 01:40:27,563
I wonder...
1421
01:40:27,564 --> 01:40:33,361
...how many souls will sympathize
with your creature's torments?
1422
01:40:33,362 --> 01:40:36,156
More than should, I expect.
1423
01:40:42,371 --> 01:40:43,914
It is time I moved home.
1424
01:40:46,083 --> 01:40:49,044
You must get your story
published, Mary.
1425
01:40:56,301 --> 01:40:59,137
[echoing voices] Dear Madam, thank you for
sending us your manuscript,
1426
01:40:59,138 --> 01:41:01,222
'Frankenstein or
A Modern Prometheus'.
1427
01:41:01,223 --> 01:41:04,392
Unfortunately, this is not a
piece that interests us.
1428
01:41:04,393 --> 01:41:07,812
We regret to inform you that we shall not
be publishing your manuscript.
1429
01:41:07,813 --> 01:41:09,772
our taste in
judgement alike revolts
1430
01:41:09,773 --> 01:41:12,775
This subject is not to the taste of
our readers from a female author.
1431
01:41:12,776 --> 01:41:16,988
In fact, it strikes us as hardly
an appropriate subject for a young lady
1432
01:41:16,989 --> 01:41:22,410
We do not deny that the work has
merit but we are cautious in proceeding.
1433
01:41:22,411 --> 01:41:26,457
The truth is you have nowhere
else to go with your story.
1434
01:41:47,019 --> 01:41:48,979
The Lackington Group
will publish it.
1435
01:41:49,188 --> 01:41:51,607
500 copies will be printed.
1436
01:41:52,191 --> 01:41:54,151
It will be published
anonymously,
1437
01:41:54,359 --> 01:41:56,987
provided you
write the introduction.
1438
01:41:57,654 --> 01:42:00,491
Well of course.
I'd be delighted.
1439
01:42:03,577 --> 01:42:05,412
So everyone will think
you wrote it.
1440
01:42:05,621 --> 01:42:07,790
Provided it's published,
what does it matter?
1441
01:42:09,958 --> 01:42:11,126
What does it matter?
1442
01:42:13,462 --> 01:42:16,507
How is it possible that you
still don't understand?!
1443
01:42:17,508 --> 01:42:19,384
You want me to abandon
my claim to it...
1444
01:42:19,593 --> 01:42:21,719
because my
gender might spoil its success.
1445
01:42:21,720 --> 01:42:23,721
- I never said that.
- You don't have to.
1446
01:42:23,722 --> 01:42:28,017
Not once do you ever think about
the consequences of your actions!
1447
01:42:28,018 --> 01:42:30,812
You bear just as much
responsibility for our life as I.
1448
01:42:30,813 --> 01:42:34,649
I, I'm not the, some grand
architect of our misery, Mary.
1449
01:42:34,650 --> 01:42:37,276
You bear the responsibility.
1450
01:42:37,277 --> 01:42:40,823
I bear the responsibility
of ever believing in you!
1451
01:42:55,712 --> 01:43:01,676
[banging]
1452
01:43:01,677 --> 01:43:06,682
[melancholy music ♪]
1453
01:44:13,790 --> 01:44:17,793
[thumping outside]
1454
01:44:17,794 --> 01:44:19,712
[Polidori]
...thank you.
1455
01:44:19,713 --> 01:44:21,048
John!
1456
01:44:29,223 --> 01:44:32,017
- You look...
- Like I've seen better days?
1457
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:34,895
Mr. Godwin said the same.
1458
01:44:35,812 --> 01:44:36,939
You saw my father?
1459
01:44:39,274 --> 01:44:42,402
Yes.
His shop is stocking my work.
1460
01:44:43,695 --> 01:44:44,571
You finished it.
1461
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:46,198
Not quite.
1462
01:44:48,742 --> 01:44:49,534
Lord Byron!
1463
01:44:50,661 --> 01:44:52,411
I'd all but forgotten
about it until
1464
01:44:52,412 --> 01:44:55,540
Byron's publisher somehow
got a hold of it and printed it as his.
1465
01:44:57,376 --> 01:44:59,418
I tried to assert my rights
as the true author
1466
01:44:59,419 --> 01:45:02,380
but in response I've only
been called a plagiarist.
1467
01:45:02,381 --> 01:45:05,925
I will write to Byron
and appeal to him to tell the truth.
1468
01:45:05,926 --> 01:45:10,179
He has already tried.
He despises the story.
1469
01:45:10,180 --> 01:45:12,307
The public just has no
interest in the truth.
1470
01:45:13,850 --> 01:45:15,769
What about your
mysterious masterpiece?
1471
01:45:16,645 --> 01:45:18,021
The absence of your
name was notable.
1472
01:45:19,022 --> 01:45:20,232
It is ironic, isn't it?
1473
01:45:20,941 --> 01:45:22,943
I write a story lampooning Byron,
1474
01:45:23,151 --> 01:45:25,237
the blood-sucking
devourer of souls
1475
01:45:25,445 --> 01:45:27,738
and he gets all the credit.
1476
01:45:27,739 --> 01:45:31,367
While you wrote about a desperately
lonely and abandoned creature.
1477
01:45:31,368 --> 01:45:34,704
Abandoned by an irresponsible
narcissist and She-
1478
01:45:34,705 --> 01:45:36,331
Shelley gets all the credit.
1479
01:45:38,959 --> 01:45:41,336
Nonetheless, congratulations.
1480
01:45:43,213 --> 01:45:44,339
Shelley must be pleased.
1481
01:45:45,215 --> 01:45:47,009
I haven't seen
Shelley in months.
1482
01:45:54,891 --> 01:45:55,976
It's for you.
1483
01:46:00,772 --> 01:46:03,025
We have created monsters,
Mary.
1484
01:46:04,901 --> 01:46:06,194
But let's not let them
devour us.
1485
01:46:37,392 --> 01:46:40,896
[street chatter]
1486
01:46:55,577 --> 01:46:57,746
[audience talking]
1487
01:47:10,550 --> 01:47:11,843
[doorbell rings]
1488
01:47:26,983 --> 01:47:28,527
Gentlemen, welcome. Thank
you for coming.
1489
01:47:30,112 --> 01:47:32,364
We're gathered here to celebrate the...
1490
01:47:33,323 --> 01:47:36,701
success of 'Frankenstein; Or
The Modern Prometheus'.
1491
01:47:36,910 --> 01:47:40,121
It's a remarkable story
asserting, as it does, the...
1492
01:47:40,122 --> 01:47:43,374
absolute human necessity
for connection.
1493
01:47:43,375 --> 01:47:46,377
From the moment Doctor
Frankenstein's creature opens its eyes
1494
01:47:46,378 --> 01:47:49,297
it seeks the touch
of its creator.
1495
01:47:49,506 --> 01:47:51,757
But he recoils in terror
1496
01:47:51,758 --> 01:47:53,176
leaving the creature
1497
01:47:53,385 --> 01:47:56,762
to its first of many
experiences of neglect
1498
01:47:56,763 --> 01:47:57,973
and isolation.
1499
01:47:58,682 --> 01:48:00,100
And if only Frankenstein
1500
01:48:00,308 --> 01:48:02,936
had been able to bestow
upon his creation
1501
01:48:04,521 --> 01:48:07,774
a compassionate touch.
A kind word.
1502
01:48:08,692 --> 01:48:10,360
What a tragedy might have
been avoided.
1503
01:48:11,695 --> 01:48:14,156
But it is a credit to
the writer
1504
01:48:14,364 --> 01:48:16,699
that it is
these very thoughts
1505
01:48:16,700 --> 01:48:19,577
that continue to run through
our minds long after we've
1506
01:48:19,578 --> 01:48:22,079
turned the final page
of this book
1507
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:27,085
which I know you all agree is
one of the most complete and
1508
01:48:28,545 --> 01:48:31,840
certainly one of the most
original publications of our age.
1509
01:48:34,551 --> 01:48:35,510
As...
1510
01:48:37,095 --> 01:48:38,805
[crowd applauding]
1511
01:48:43,768 --> 01:48:44,561
Thank you.
1512
01:48:46,438 --> 01:48:47,230
Thank you.
1513
01:48:50,442 --> 01:48:51,943
I know many of you wonder
1514
01:48:52,152 --> 01:48:54,904
who could have written this
horrific tale
1515
01:48:54,905 --> 01:48:57,781
and why was it
published anonymously.
1516
01:48:57,782 --> 01:49:01,869
I see some of you suggest
that the work belongs to me.
1517
01:49:01,870 --> 01:49:04,956
Indeed, you could say that
the work would not even exist
1518
01:49:05,165 --> 01:49:06,500
without my contribution.
1519
01:49:12,130 --> 01:49:13,423
But to my shame
1520
01:49:15,884 --> 01:49:19,678
the only claim I remotely
have to this work
1521
01:49:19,679 --> 01:49:22,474
is inspiring the desperate
loneliness
1522
01:49:22,682 --> 01:49:25,435
that defines
Frankenstein's creature.
1523
01:49:28,855 --> 01:49:33,943
The author of 'Frankenstein;
Or A Modern Prometheus' is, of course
1524
01:49:33,944 --> 01:49:36,195
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
1525
01:49:36,196 --> 01:49:38,113
[crowd murmurs]
1526
01:49:38,114 --> 01:49:41,117
[soft, dramatic music ♪]
1527
01:49:43,703 --> 01:49:49,334
It is a work of singular genius and she
is indebted to no one in its creation.
1528
01:50:03,306 --> 01:50:04,099
Percy.
1529
01:50:05,976 --> 01:50:06,851
Mary.
1530
01:50:13,233 --> 01:50:15,569
I really thought you'd left
for good.
1531
01:50:22,701 --> 01:50:25,161
I never promised you a life
without misery
1532
01:50:27,122 --> 01:50:30,791
but I underestimated the
depths of despair
1533
01:50:30,792 --> 01:50:34,045
and the weight of regret we
were to endure.
1534
01:50:36,673 --> 01:50:39,509
I lost everything to be with
you, Percy.
1535
01:50:42,887 --> 01:50:45,849
Always set out to create
something wonderful
1536
01:50:47,851 --> 01:50:49,352
something beautiful.
1537
01:50:51,396 --> 01:50:54,316
But something volatile
seethed within us.
1538
01:50:57,444 --> 01:50:58,445
Behold...
1539
01:51:00,864 --> 01:51:04,117
the monster galvanized
1540
01:51:06,870 --> 01:51:11,416
but if I had not learned to
fight through the anguish
1541
01:51:12,709 --> 01:51:15,003
I would not have found this
voice again.
1542
01:51:17,047 --> 01:51:19,257
My choices made me who I am.
1543
01:51:22,636 --> 01:51:25,137
And I regret nothing.
1544
01:51:25,138 --> 01:51:28,933
[music swells ♪]
1545
01:53:10,243 --> 01:53:13,287
[Mary, voiceover] You were soon
borne away by the waves
1546
01:53:13,288 --> 01:53:17,000
and lost in darkness
and distance.
1547
01:53:17,208 --> 01:53:18,960
♪♪