Both Uses of
susceptible
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.†
p. 188.9
- My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.†
p. 222.4 *
Definition:
easily influenced or harmed
or:
capable of being treated in a particular way
or:
capable of being treated in a particular way