Both Uses of
capricious
in
Frankenstein
- We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice,
Chpt 2 *caprice = impulsiveness
- By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior