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Frankenstein, or a modern prometheus by Mary Shelley
Full text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm -------------- pdf
Written between 1816-17
First published in 1818
Modified in 1831
Mostro (saggio su NOME): See Online Etymology Dictionary: monster c.1300, "malformed animal, creature afflicted with a birth defect," from O.Fr. monstre, from L. monstrum "monster, monstrosity, omen, portent, sign," from root of monere "warn".
Abnormal or prodigious animals were regarded as signs or omens of impending evil. Extended c.1385 to imaginary animals composed of parts of creatures (centaur, griffin, etc.).
Meaning "animal of vast size" is from 1530; sense of "person of inhuman cruelty or wickedness" is from 1556.
In O.E., the monster Grendel was an aglæca, a word related to aglæc "calamity, terror, distress, oppression."
Monstrous: 1460, "unnatural, deviating from the natural order, hideous," from L. monstruosus "strange, unnatural," from monstrum.
Meaning "enormous" is from 1500; that of "outrageously wrong" is from 1573. Monstrosity "abnormality of growth" is from 1555, from L.L. monstrositas "strangeness," from L. monstrosus, a collateral form of monstruosus (cf. Fr. monstruosité). Sense of “quality of being monstrous” is first recorded 1656. Noun meaning "a monster" is attested from 1643. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=monster&searchmode=none (June 2009)
See also Oxford English Dictionary, pp. 1036-37
audiatur et altera pars, that is the right to a fair hearing .
from Seneca’s Medea “Qui statuit aliquid parte inaudita altera, aequum licet statuerit, haud aequus fuit” (act II , sc. 2, vv.199-200) meaning that even an equitable judgment is unjust unless all the parties have been heard.
“I couldn’t be mistaken. A flash of lightening illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity…” [my italics] p.76.
“I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had created.” [my italics] p. 99
“the spectre”, “the object” and “the shape”. As the narration continues, the creature is also called “monster”, “demon”, “fiend”, “evil”, “wretch”
United Nations in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child which states:
Principle 3 - The child shall be entitled from his birth to a name and nationality.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states in similar terms:
Article 24:2 - Every child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall be given a name.
Art. 6 of the Italian civil code states:
Right to a name
All persons have a right to a legally given name
This name includes a first name and a family name
No changes or additions are allowed, unless properly ratified by law.
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