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Mary Shelley

"Mary Shelley" 












The Blog City Prompt Forum prompt is "“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

What do you think Shelley means by this quote? Do you agree or disagree?"

I think she is saying that as a race human beings are susceptible to enticement by our imaginations. If somebody speaks a word we can take that word and run with it. For example a man clearing a road through the woods may say "I cut that old beech out of the way".

Then suddenly our desires cause us to pack up and go on vacation at Myrtle Beach or possibly Daytona Beach.