How Does Mary Shelley Use The Tricolon In Frankenstein

The author Mary Shelley shows the hypocrisy and inhumanity of humans in this text. She begins by setting the scene; someone in a first-person point of view wakes up muddled in a forest near Ingolstadt feeling weak, hungry, and confused. This is a Gothic novel in a first-person point of view, which creates a direct connection with the audience and engages them to take a closer look at the narrator’s thoughts and feelings. We see the use of the tricolon in the first paragraph when our narrator describes himself as feeling “felt, heard and smelt”(line.3). Here, the tricolon put three similar words together, which describes what our narrator felt. The writer uses a tricolon one more time when he writes “poor, helpless, miserable”, (line.20) combined

When you first this quote explicitly, you would think some horrendous creatures are being described. Sadly, that is not the case. The creature is the one being attacked by no one other than our species. TCOVF (The Creature of Victor Frankenstein), in this passage, is a victim of being outcasted by society for not fitting in. This also proves how hypocritical humans can be when it comes to their insecurities. Another theme I want to look into is fear. Our narrator is a tall humanoid created by a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, that looks like a freak/monster. Frankenstein is something unnatural and people fear that. When people are scared, they either run or fight, even if it means no harm or isn’t aggressive. Mankind will fear something they don't understand or something they have never seen before. When something intimidates them, their 'fight' or 'flight' rush kicks in, meaning they will either run if they don't have the means or the courage to face the problem, or they will fight the problem itself, it doesn't matter if they have the strength to do it. This text is the perfect example of that analogy. The old man fled when he saw the scary looking humanoid, as he was old and weak. But the villagers gathered together with weapons to fight the creature of Victor Frankenstein. Here, we get a first-person point of view of all that with up-close and personal narration of his thoughts and feelings. The tone of this text was bleak, as our main character was puzzled and in mental and physical pain most of the time. We can also hear a slight bit of despair every time, he encounters a human being, which is sad and