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Personification In Frankenstein

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TH) In the excerpt from Frankenstein, Mary Shelley writes from Elizabeth's perspective in a letter to Victor. Elizabeth is explaining to him the situation at home while he is away. Victor's brother William has been murdered and Justine was executed for the crime even though she was not guilty. Elizabeth is very distraught and expressing to Victor how she sees the world differently now. In the excerpt Shelley uses personification, rhetorical questions, and similes to create meaning to the readers. For example, (TS) Shelley uses personification, “but now misery has come home” (Shelley 63) to further portray the miserable situation they are all in. She's giving humanlike characteristics to misery, showing that it's a choice for misery to return
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