Tracing nature as a Romantic feature in Frankenstein Nature works as a restorative factor for both Frankenstein and the monster. We see throughout the novel how nature allows them to have a free uncontrolled emotional experience. Nature was their source of inspiration. They had reverence for nature. It made them feel that their souls are elevated. It gave them the opportunity to be renewed spiritually whenever they wanted to escape from the hardships of life. Nature helped those characters to see the world exactly how they wanted to because imagination was more important to them than reason. Marry Shelley uses the natural setting as a way to describe Victor’s feelings rather than stating how exactly he feels. She uses
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Spring’s spectacular beauty eases his pain and gives him comfort and he says “spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty.’’ (Shelley 101) Nature works as Victor’s personal physician. It has a strong reviving influence on him. Whenever he is feeling down, nature succeeds in boosting his spirits. It is clear in the part where he says ‘’I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind. I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy
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After being rejected by the cottagers he wanders in the woods. He feels that nature does not sympathize with his misfortunes and he says ‘’when night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood . . . the cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me: now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.’’ (Shelley
Spring’s spectacular beauty eases his pain and gives him comfort and he says “spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty.’’ (Shelley 101) Nature works as Victor’s personal physician. It has a strong reviving influence on him. Whenever he is feeling down, nature succeeds in boosting his spirits. It is clear in the part where he says ‘’I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind. I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm, and the snowy
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After being rejected by the cottagers he wanders in the woods. He feels that nature does not sympathize with his misfortunes and he says ‘’when night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood . . . the cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me: now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.’’ (Shelley