Foreshadow In Frankenstein

When Victor is on his way home, he stops at the site of his brother’s murder. While he was there, it began to storm violently. Victor is happy for the first time in a while, and said this would serve as William’s funeral, but things turn quickly when he sees the monster. After sight of the creature, Victor realizes he is the murderer, and sits outside there all night. “No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent cold and wet, in the open air” (63.) At first, the rain brings Victor a sense of joy because he loves being surrounded by nature. This is the first time in a long time he has been able to be in it due to his illness, so he is understandably thrilled. However, things change quickly as a streak of lightning reveals the monster to him which may

Shelley likely chose this place for several reasons: to move the plot along, to foreshadow death, and – most importantly – to connect the weather to the feelings of the characters. Snow like this isn’t inhabitable by man, and the monster knows he can survive it. He is trying to kill Frankenstein, and this is the perfect place to do it as the ice may take him first, and nearly does. “…in a few minutes a tumultuous sea rolled between me and my enemy, and I was left drifting on a scattered piece of ice, that was continually lessening, and thus preparing for me a hideous death” (195.) Snow is suffocating. If you fall asleep in it, it tucks you in like a blanket in an icy coffin. However, you get warm before you actually die in the cold. This reminds me of the monster wanting Frankenstein to love him, to be warmed by him. Now though, he’s taken him to his grave. Snow is stark, and simple. Our characters? They’re being awfully stark – they have come here to fight to the death after all. Snow is the perfect setting for these scenes because it is just as harsh as the story