Frankenstein Personification

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After hearing the words from the creature, Victor realizes the mistake that made by himself and feels remorse. For example, Victor hears the creature’s story and thinks a lot on the way home. He yells to the sky, and depicts his mental feeling, “I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me” (Shelley 151). The author uses both personification and simile to describe his wild and unfortunate thoughts. First of all, she uses “eternal twinkling of the star” to infer God because God is omnipresent. He supervises every actions,that made by human being, from the sky. It is likely that God is looking at Victor and tries

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