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Frankenstein Rhetorical Analysis

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A blinding flash filled the room, followed by a deafening crackle. The creature's body jerked violently, its limbs thrashing against the restraining straps I had secured. A guttural groan escaped its stitched lips, a sound that sent shivers down my spine." This belongs to Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein". Victor Frankenstein creates life in the form of the character known as Frankenstein's Monster. Frankenstein obsesses over creating this monster, yet feels that he has unleashed a greater evil once he had brought it to life. Victor Frankenstein shows conflicting emotions of both pride in what he has done and fear over the capabilities of the monster. In "Frankenstein", Mary Shelly employs imagery and rhetorical questions to exhibit Victor Frankenstein's complex emotions of …show more content…

Mary Shelley utilizes imagery to describe the lab of Victor Frankenstein and the monster itself. For example, Frankstein describes the monster as "a grotesque mockery of the human form, stitched together from the salvaged remains of the charnel house.” This imagery of the lifeless monster showcases Frankenstein’s turmoil and anguish that he feels for the monster. Another instance of imagery occurs in the description of the lab. The lab was a “grotesque assemblage” and a “far cry from the grand vision that had initially captivated [Frankenstein]”. The walls were “adorned with complex diagrams of the human anatomy, painstakingly copied from the dusty medical texts”. This description creates the image of the dilapidated lab which Frankenstein works in day and night. This environment further builds the turmoil Frankenstein feels for the monster he creates. Imagery occurs again when the monster awakes and its eyes snap open, devoid of a pupil and iris. This builds the grotesqueness of the monster and furthers the idea that Frankenstein dreads the idea of the

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