“The hero of Zastrozzi, after having been for over a hundred pages in continual danger of death, and daily having experienced tortures worse than death, at last commits suicide” (Kurtz 4).
Death exists as “a suffering inflicted by the oppressor or as a justice meted out to him […] as an escape for the oppressed” (Kurtz 10).
“Finally, there is a definitely debility of spirit. I refer to a positive dread of death” (Kurtz 23).
In Zastrozzi, “Shelley has exulted in the painful death of bigots and tyrants, and has found therein the cure of all evils” (Kurtz 113).
Kurtz, Benjamin P. The Pursuit of Death.
