After being stricken with guilt for causing the deaths of William and Justine, Victor escapes his torment at the village of Chamounix where he roams through the valley and encounters magnificent sights of nature which helps occupy his mind from self destructive reflections of recent events. Victor is awed by the immensity the environment and describes the silence around him as solemn like. This use of personification is used in order to express the unrelenting seriousness that the environment gives off to him, and foreshadows Victor’s admiration for the scensarity of power that nature around him is capable of. Furthermore, he attributes waves to be brawling, which highlights the ferociousness the waves gives to the scenery and adds an element
