To Jane The Recollection Analysis

Throughout Frankenstein, "Miss Brill", and "To Jane: The Recollection", the reader is exposed to the various ways nature can isolate the individual from the toils of societal life. The tranquility and placidity of nature is influential in the individual 's willingness to isolate themselves from the society that they are apart of. This is most evident in "Miss Brill" and her ability to isolate herself in her surroundings and create a fantasy world. Mansfield 's descriptions of the public garden evident in the band 's "louder and gayer" music filling the air, the descriptions of the old man in the "velvet coat", the husband and wife in the "dreadful Panama hat and…button boots", the old people who were "still as statues", and the little …show more content…
And then she too, she too, and the others on the benches – they would come in with a kind of accompaniment – something low, that scarcely rose or fell, something so beautiful – moving…. And Miss Brill 's eyes filled with tears and she looked smiling at all the other members of the company. (Mansfield)
This description of the chorus, seen in words such as "young", "laughing", "resolute", "brave", and "beautiful" help to create the image of a joyful and vast chorus that causes Miss Brill to forget about her loneliness and instead focus on the beauty of the song she thinks she is hearing. In "To Jane: The Recollection", Shelley focuses on separating the individual from the physical and society world around her and rather to focus on the beauty of Mother Nature around her. This is shown when the speaker says: To momentary peace it …show more content…
The nature scene, described as peaceful and "beautiful", "heavenly", and "silent" is interrupted by the "harsh…. croaking" from the frog. This frog can serve as a metaphor for Frankenstein, who is disturbing the peace and beauty of the earth with his creation of a blood-hungry monster. Furthermore, Frankenstein implicates a suicidal feeling and eternal isolation from the society and bleak world around him when he says, "…. plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me, and my calamites forever." This demonstrates to the reader how cowardice Frankenstein is by wanting to use death as an escape and isolate himself in the silent nature instead of owning the wrong that he did. Throughout the three influential works, the individuals attempt to lose themselves in nature and isolate themselves from the judgmental and harsh societal life around them, instead embracing the silent and majestic nature that is all