Thursday, January 28, 2010

In chapter 10 to what extent is nature a key point???????? ey ey ey!

Nature is a key point in this chapter because it helps us see the monster in a lot of different lights. It helps you feel sympathy for the monster as it makes him very child like, because he is finding solace and prosperity in something else that is so innocent and natural.
The monster can also be related to nature in the way in which nature is something so big and intimidating can be so peaceful and harmful. The way both victor and the monster find peace in the mountains that at the point in time seemed so harmful and frightening makes them relate to each when they both want to be so far away from each other.
Mary Shelley began writing about the mountains in a new to everyone else to show how they could be seen in a different light to frightening and daunting to readers. She allows the reader to link Romanticism and Aesthetics with the mountains and the monster together as they have both been created by a force higher then their own power because they both have picturesque qualities about them but are both sometimes shunned by the human race because of the infinite amount of power behind them. The human race is so fearful of objects more powerful and different to themselves that they stick together and refuse its acceptance into a society that is created around vanity and judgments, i think this is the point Mary Shelly is trying to make by saying how society at the time was very judgemental towards things that were different, and by writing Frankenstein was trying to show people how something so different could in fact be more beneficent towards everyone.