A Summary Of The Weather Motifs In Frankenstein

Mary Shelley has employed multiple means of motif throughout this text. I will speak of the weather motif. The weather motif is a device Mary Shelley uses as a way to relaying mood to the audience (readers of the book). When Victor creates the Monster, the weather is dark, dreary, and stormy. This is both a means of establishing the creepy and decrepit mood, and hinting at a negative event. When he goes to Ingolstadt, the weather is lovely, almost a bit too lovely. Indeed, the section almost is akin to a vivid scene painted in the beautiful hues of Arsenic green, when I read it, I personally found it plastic, and not permanent. In the section it it joyous, however, immediately after, he is informed of the wee William's death. The killer

Like a young child, Frankenstein is a new being, new to life, new to this earth. Unlike a child, he is an unnatural creation. Like an orphaned child in the streets, when he is rejected, he has not been taught right and wrong, so he does things that are considered bad. He begins to learn the human way, but realizes he can never be truly accepted amongst them. He wants a creature as decrepit and miserable as him to be created, so he can have peace, away from man. There is both beauty, such as nature, and ugliness, such as the monster. I also think that there is beauty in the ugliness of the monster, such as when he weeps when Victor

Frankenstein struggles with the death of his mother and family throughout this work of writing. I also consider Victor a coward, for he gets afraid of reprimand, and lets Justine be wrongfully pin-pointed as the guilty, while it was his fault since, he let his uneducated Creature wander without any instruction whatsoever. The Monster, however, is contrasting. When he realizes what he has done, he regrets it deeply, and begs for a companion to share his misery. Victor, again, gets scared, and fails to keep his promise. Victor loses his wife, and the monster commits an act of vengeance that I do believe the monster is responsible for, and that is when the Monster kills victor's