Safie . . . cottage
That the enterprizing Safie, who has managed to travel from Constantinople to Paris, then to central Italy, and from there to this rural
section of south-central Germany, is
so horrified attests to the intensity of fear aroused by the sight of the
Creature. That she deserts the entire family at this moment of crisis
testifies to a primal, irrational sense of self-preservation that is
distinctly unGodwinian and stands as an ironic counterstatement to all the
Enlightenment ideals so accentuated in the paragraphs leading up to this
denouement.
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