Similarities Between Mood And Weather In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Weather has many different effects on a person for example, rain can have a scene depicted as gloomy or sad. Many stories include this logic into their books to further the tone of the story. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the weather is associated with the mood of Victor Frankenstein and his creation. By including these comparisons between moods and weather shows each character's mood when it is not shown or made clear to the reader. When Victor Frankenstein is happy and at a calm mindset the weather is depicted as similar such as when he is in his childhood home and thinks he is worry free. “I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, 'the palaces of nature,' were not changed.