Mary Shelley uses romanticism and gothic literature to exemplify major parts in the book. Firstly she uses romanticism to describe nature she says "I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self...I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys". This quote explains the romantic figures found in this period, the swell of the mountain river represents the loss of happiness and chaos in Victor 's life. Through emotion, she says "I desire the company of a man who would sympathize with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. …show more content…
This goes with the ideals of romantic imagination. The purpose of it is to help the readers to be able to put the acts into reality; this quote does this by letting the people know that you can not set your hopes up too high. This romantic classic is based on the principles the science only changes, but nature soothes She tells us that we neglect nature like Victor Frankenstein did, and we will end up making a monster out of out of it and ourselves. Shelley 's use of gothic literature to give the reader a pleasurable but terrifying thrill while the story goes on. At the beginning of the book, Shelly left out anything of there being a castle in Frankenstein. Leaving this out is probably due to the movement of the plot. In the story, there is a lot of dark parts such as when the monster is created it was a “dreary night of November”. Which sets the scene for the rest of the book and allows you to foreshadow the darkness to come with the birth of the monster. The use of both romanticism and gothic literature sets up the whole story with the way it starts and ends. It gives suspense to the readers and keeps you on your toes throughout the whole