Examples Of Sublime In Frankenstein

Sublime Nature during the Romantic Period Both Mary Shelley and William Wordsworth incorporated sublime nature and nature itself in their writings of Frankenstein, and Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. While both speakers in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, and Frankenstein could have looked for love and happiness in a person they found it in nature because of the way the two polar opposites together made the speakers feel. Many authors during the Romantic period wrote about a concept that pointed out the feeling we get when we come across something in nature that has a mixture of beauty and terror. In other words, the sublime. Themes are a big part of every story, they make the story have meaning. In Frankenstein, there tends to be so many themes that they conflict with each other. One example is the struggle between self and nature. The theme in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, is all about nature. Many of Wordsworth’s works contain sublime nature in …show more content…
Her main character, Victor Frankenstein ,was intrigued by a tree burning down because he loved learning about nature and how it all works (Chapter One). In chapter three of Frankenstein, Victor says, “... but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature. And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time.” (p.17-18). The terror and beauty of nature helped him forget about all the bad things in his life, just like it did for Wordsworth in Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey. Victor in this chapter is talking about how beautiful nature is, even though he had was neglected when he was younger, lost friends and did not talk to or see his friends for a long