Similes In Frankenstein Ap Language Essay

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, a student at Ingolstadt College creates a man out of other body parts that are sewn together and reanimates it bringing it to life. Frankenstein abandons the monster forcing the monster over the edge where he then kills everyone Frankenstein loves. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses literary devices such as similes, rhetorical questions, and imagery to convey meaning to her readers. To begin, Shelley uses similes throughout the book to connect more with readers. One such example is “men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood”(Shelley 63). In this small section of a larger quote, Elizabeth is talking to Victor about how Justine is in her mind wrongly accused. Shelly uses
She asks a rhetorical question because she knows she is correct and that if Victor cannot answer it, then he will know she is correct as well. Shelley uses the rhetorical question to again connect with readers on how helpless Elizabeth feels as she knows she cannot help Justine at all. The last example of literary devices is imagery, Elizabeth finishes her speech with an important piece of imagery. When she says “I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.” (Shelley 63). In this, she paints a picture of herself walking by herself near the edge of a large cliff. She feels as if everyone is against her and trying to push her. Shelley uses this to put the final nail in the coffin about how hopeless Elizabeth feels in this situation with her being alone in the fight against thousands to free Justine. She feels as if no matter what she does they will slowly creep towards her slowly eating up her space as it eventually forces her off the edge of this imaginary abyss all because her voice won’t be heard over the thousands calling for the death of