Mary Shelley filled each page of Frankenstein with a plethora of vivid imagery and literary devices such as metaphors and similes. Her style fits perfectly with the Romantic writing style because of the emotion that was woven into each line. In Chapter four, Victor thinks to himself about his pursuit to reanimating a death corpse: What had been the study and desires of the wisest men since the creation of the world was now within my grasp. Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search, than to exhibit that object already accomplished. I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual, light (Shelley 53). In Victor’s thought, Shelley compares Victor’s quest for scientific knowledge to a man trying to escape a tunnel with little light for guidance. Shelley is able to describe events with few words by comparing them to a completely different scenario. She is able to say that Victor’s search for knowledge was a tiresome and grueling hunt but successful in the end. Shelley’s Romantic style also includes eloquent words such as glimmering and ineffectual to paint …show more content…
Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?” (Shelley 186). I like how Shelley decided to leave the reader at the end with the monster saying that all humankind had done some wrong to him to make the reader think about his or her actions. She leaves the reader with a line that will stick in the back of his or her head after being done with the Frankenstein. The reason I like it is because the monster points out that there is a monster in all humans that is more sinister than