Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 15
The fourth of nine cryptograms from chapter 15 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Hbvjmdamvmaamfjzmtmlmaisthjkijhbdt,itjzmhathchsiahjptjakgocm,jbcpbxd.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length66 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 15 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Another circumstance strengthened and confirmed these feelings. Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. At first I had neglected them, but now that I was able to decipher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence. It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation. You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences. You doubtless recollect these papers. Here they are. Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible. I sickened as I read. 'Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.'
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the hard one from chapter 15.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 15easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 15hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 15easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 72 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 9medium, 63 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 95 letters
- Chapter 4medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 3medium, 82 letters
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