The Heirs

Epigraphs

“REMEMBER THAT I AM THY CREATURE; I OUGHT TO BE THY ADAM, BUT I AM RATHER THE FALLEN ANGEL … I WAS BENEVOLENT AND GOOD; MISERY MADE ME A FIEND. MAKE ME HAPPY, AND I SHALL AGAIN BE VIRTUOUS.”

—Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

“WE THAT ARE YOUNG SHALL NEVER SEE SO MUCH, NOR LIVE SO LONG.”

—King Lear, William Shakespeare