Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein follows Robert Walton’s letters to his sister and how he comes across Victor Frankenstein, a man on a journey to bring a dead body back to life, and then his guilt from generating a strange, abnormal creature. When the monster realizes how he came into the world and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator’s family to avenge his desolation. The literary devices strewn throughout the text allow the reader to comprehend the thoughts and emotions of the characters and gain a deeper understanding of what is taking place. In the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, rhetorical questions, similes, and imagery are exploited to give the text meaning for the reader. Foremost, Shelley utilizes a rhetorical …show more content…
Elizabeth is irritated by the wrongful prosecution and confused by the outcome of the recent affairs. Secondly, Mary Shelley uses an imagery filled simile to compare men to monsters and remind us that there is a dangerous monster on the loose. “And men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood” (Shelley 63). While Elizabeth is not aware that the creature is to blame for the negative turn of events, the audience knows of the beast and is constantly reminded that it is not an animal or an alien or a murderer reeking havoc, but instead a hideous monster. Lastly, Shelley makes use of vivid imagery when she writes, “I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss” (Shelley 63). This excerpt shows the reader how the previous incidents have made Elizabeth feel hopeless and overwhelmed by the deaths of William Frankenstein and Justine Moritz. Elizabeth is exasperated with the erroneous justice system and wishes for fairness for Moritz’s