Frankenstein Passage Analysis Essay

Frankenstein Passage Analysis

To make a good story an author needs to add certain elements like imagery, tone and theme. Imagery is descriptive elements that give the story a time and setting that gives the reader an idea of what is happening in the story. Another element is tone, this is the attitude that the author is trying to give while reading. The last element is theme, authors use themes in books to discuss the main ideas of the books topic. We see all these elements in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from the way she describes the creature and the lab he was created in to how Dr. Frankenstein feels about what he has created and finally the theme of if you have the power to so something should you? These elements are what makes Frankenstein a captivating book, and allow it to still be relevant even a hundred years after it was originally written. Imagery is what gives a book a detailed time and setting, it is what allows us to create a mental picture on what is going on. In
Mary shelley uses tone when Dr. Frankenstein says “ Now that I had finished, beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (Shelley 43). Tone can be seen because Victor is saying that he had made a mistake in creating the creature. He can see the horrors that he created in the creature. Before this point in the book Victor was willing and excited about bringing life back from the dead it was his life's work but once the creature is given life Victor has a change of heart. From this point on he has hatred towards the creature, so much so that he eventually tries to kill his creation. With that one statement from Dr. Frankenstein Mary Shelley sets up the tone for the rest of the book, it being Victors regret in his creation and what he has brought into the world. Victor after the creature kills his family spends the rest of the book trying to destroy what he tried so hard to