The Power Of Nature In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In the fiction novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley envisions scenery inspired from the forces of nature. Shelley states in the novel the power of nature is treated in the face of unnatural events in sense of knowledge being use for the good or evil in nature. Doctor Frankenstein a brilliant scientist who achieved the power of giving an inanimate body life. The monster is created and reacted in a very human way in the environment which the monster has grown up in. Both Frankenstein and the monster both have an innate nature that factor into each one’s personality and way of life in nature. The natural world is life given and nurturing to humans although in Frankenstein’s world nature becomes a work of experimenting and science.

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“Winter spring, and summer passed away during my labors; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves-sight s which before always yielded me supreme delight- so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation” (Frankenstein 34). The role of nature is exposed to how life is short but quick in an instant, just like how nature changes.For example, Victor states “I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy” (Frankenstein 66). For example, Victor’s abandonment of his creation caused the creature to envision a life of darkness and hate when the creature is left alone on its own without anyone. This cause a negative feeling because it emphasizes ethos where the creature is emotionally deprived of sadness and longs for someone by its side. Some readers would say, why create an inanimate body life when in the end the creator would abandon his own creation. Well in a way when Frankenstein created the creature he must remember he had dug up body parts from graves and he had used pieces of dead animals to make his creation. Thus, all the pieces used for his creation had

As Victor created a monster, he soon became one himself which isolated him from his family and he soon demonstrated immortal actions such as digging up graves for dead body parts. As for the creature he was not grown into the environment he was suppose to be placed in. Rather than in the humans natural world we are born and raised with an environment in which we learn and develop skills overtime. More so, nature is not to be toyed with, but nature is there for us to get away, to realize there lies something miraculously in