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Frankenstein The Last Image Analysis

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In the last image of Frankenstein, the Created finishes reflecting on his miserable existence, and tells his plan to burn himself alive. Walton is left with only an open window, frozen waves, and darkness swirling in the tempest beyond. This last image displays the themes of good and evil, the meaning of human existence, and the ultimate comfort found in nature. Throughout the entire account of the Created’s life, he constantly struggles with deciphering between good and evil. At the end of the novel, he reflects that he was “once filled with sublime transcendent visions of beauty and the majesty of goodness,” but now recognizes that “vice has degraded [him] beneath the meanest animal” (273). He is confused as to why Felix, his image of “immaculate
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