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Personification In Frankenstein

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By utilizing personification to describe fate as an omnipotent deity in chapter 2 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein vindicates himself, redirecting blame upon fate instead. Victor expunges his culpability in Chapter 2 of Shelley’s Frankenstein by characterizing the battle for his soul as a struggle between “destiny” and his “guardian angel” and by concluding that “Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed [his] utter and terrible destruction” (Shelley 27). By disassociating himself even from the struggle between his fate and his destiny, Victor denounces the perilous potential possibility that he could have changed his own nature. Moreover, he invokes beings such as angels and Destiny such that he seems small
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