Frankenstein

Frankenstein

1. Dark Setttings

   • A lot of dark settings within in Frankenstein; When the monster is created, Victor describes how it was "on a dreary night of in November".
     • This pathetic fallacy sets the scene for the start of chapter 5 which features the birth of the monster. It also foreshadoes the darkness to come further in the novel.
   • "Black and comfortless sky"- Patheic fallacy used here again to make it clear what Victor has done is wrong.
   • "I sat one evening in my laboratory"; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea". This creates an echo/parallel construction of that to C5. with the dark setting of when the monster was originally created. Also creates the impression that the setting is worse than "a dreary night in november".
   • "I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement". The moon is associated with the monster as being evil. The dark is therefore evil.

2. Effect of low lighting.

   • "My candle was nearly burnt out". At this moment, light represents life with the candle that is just about to be burnt out, it juxtaposes to what is about to happen. This creates a negativity over the monster before he is even born.
   • "The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine dedicated lamp in our peaceful home". Elizabeth s seen as a light in darkness.

3. Extreme landscapes and Weather

   • The start if the novel the setting as the North pole; a strange unknown and weird srea that is a place god could potentially be.
   • The remote setting of the north pole creates an isolated and mysterious mood; "surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides", "thick fog", "vast and irregular plains of ice", "lost amoung the distant inequalities of the ice" and "many hundred miles from any land".
   • "The thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens". The use of lightning will continually link to how Frankenstein created the monster; it was lightning that gave life to the monster.