Nature in Frankenstein
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- Nature
- As a restorative.
- F sees it as a "retreat"
- He found nature "beautiful and heavenly" p. 71
- F was "carried away by the wind" p. 71
- "winds whispered in soothing accents" p.74
- "elevated" F p. 75
- C is given a "sensation of pleasure" by it p.80
- C was "gratified and refreshed" by it. p. 90
- Also "refreshed" F. p.131
- Use the same language
- Also "refreshed" F. p.131
- "seldom failed to restore" F. p. 115
- "restored and inspirited" F. P. 155
- F sees it as a "retreat"
- As the sublime
- "wonderful and sublime" p. 74
- "glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature" p. 74
- "awful and majestic" p. 75
- Oxymoron
- As a mother figure
- "maternal nature" p.74
- Pronouns used to describe nature are female "her" p. 43
- Moon seen as a female p. 148
- Never changing.
- "immutable laws" p. 75
- "everlasting ices" p. 156
- Being "penetrated" by Frankenstein.
- "still I would penetrate their misty veil" p. 75
- F wanted to "learn the hidden laws of nature" p. 30
- "penetrate into the recesses of nature" p.38
- F "pursued nature to her hiding-places" p.43
- Being more powerful than man
- Man "moved by every wind that blows" p.
- Fire imagery
- Gave C "joy" and "pain" p.81
- "insuperable barrier" p. 129
- F nearly killed by the "immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted" him. p.131
- "threatened (F's) destruction" p.158
- As a restorative.
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