Death is a literary symbol that plays a big part in making a piece of work more interesting, well, it at least assists in catching the attention of the reader. Mary Shelley uses this kind of representation in, "The Mortal Immortal". This short story is about a man named, Winzy, and how he becomes immortal after drinking a potion he his mentor, Cornelius Agrippa, made. Over the years Winzy's health gradually worsens and his mentality comes into question. In "The Mortal Immortal" Winzy himself is portraying how death can come; slowly, but surely. Cornelius Agrippa believes humanity to be week which is why it relies on death to help free them from aging, so he created a potion that would make humans immortal. The potion that was created didn't
