Dante's Frankenstein

"I think it's the beginning of something like true love actually is sacrificed. Love is not merely the sent to sensual or even sentimental engagement with the other's body," she says. "There's all sorts of ways in which we do harm to ourselves and to many other people in this mode." She adds that Mary Shelley is really invoking, you know, Dante, she I think she has Dante in mind possibly".