Examples Of Foreshadowing In Frankenstein

How would you respond to the creation of life within a monster? Shelley’s novel Frankenstein conveys a horrific tale using imagery, foreshadowing, and tone to emphasize the terror of what all humans have once feared, a monster. It was always Victor Frankenstein's dream to become a scientist, a doctor in the field of advancement. This dream became a reality for the intelligent boy after years of study. Victor Frankenstein had become Dr. Frankenstein and though he didn’t know it yet, he would regret it the rest of his miserable life. The newly appointed scientist set himself in the discovery of life and found success. It took him two years but, through the embodiment of a monster, Frankenstein created life. It was a horrid creature of giant stature, …show more content…
Shelley’s imagery is what allows the reader to feel present and to understand the true horror of the monster and the consequences of his actions. All of the horrid acts done by the monster are made vivid by imagery, the reader is with William when he dies, or with the monster as he burns the cottage down and howls at the moon. However, Shelley’s imagery does more than visualize the event for the reader, it often ties in with Frankenstein's emotions and state of mind. The morning after the monster's creation, for example, was morbid and wretched "Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned...drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky" this ties in with Frankenstein's feelings towards his creation and allows the reader to picture the weather of his mind and world. This is not Shelley’s only variation of imagery. She also uses imagery as a form of expressing the passage of time, which is much needed. It was often unclear the amount of time between events, and would have been near impossible to know if not for Shelley’s imagery. The best example of this is when Frankenstein returned home after William’s death a saw a portrait of his mother "Six years had elapsed, passed as a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt...I gazed on the picture of my mother, which stood over the mantelpiece. It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father”. This depiction acts as a past focused piece of imagery, that shows the passage of time as well as links the grief he feels now to that of the