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“He could have endured poverty; and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie, were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.”
CH 14/ 89
The author uses diction to relay the tone of the chapter but to analyze a smaller section, the author uses specific diction such as poverty instead of poor. The author also uses euphonious words like loss of his beloved instead of saying the death of Safie. But some cacophonous words are used like bitter and irreparable. This sets the tone of this section by Victor’s creation feeling sad with the loss Safie but what was left behind was in no ways good.

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“Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand sights of beauty.”
Ch. 13 pg. 81-82
In the beginning of Shelley’s book she portrays a uneasy tone and creates the feeling that something bad could potentially happen. The tone then develops into a darker mood once the creature is created. However, in the beginning of chapter thirteen the tone of the story takes a different turn. The creature is finally starting to feel as if it truly belongs in the world. The family in the cottage makes the creature feel like it is actually a human. Shelley uses diction to also lighten the tone of the story. She uses words such as “desert” and “gloomy” to remind the reader of the recent things that have happen but then uses words such as “bloom” and “verdure” to make the story brighter and happier.

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“But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed at him."
Ch 15 pgs. 93/94
The author uses  allusion to shows the knowledge the Creature has gained without Victor, and it shows that this knowledge has lead resentment towards Victor. One important part to note in this quote is when he talks about Eve. He is comparing a loving partner to Eve and describes as not being there which foreshadows his request to Victor about wanting a partner.

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“I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.”

Shelley is showing that the the monster has none of the basics to be successful in the world. The monster is trying to find the forbidden knowledge of himself. Everyday he is learning something new, and for this situation he is realizing his creator left him with nothing. He realizes that he can't change the way Frankenstein views him. Shelley is using syntax and diction to bring out the emotions and characteristics of the monsters feelings. When the monster is describing what he does not have, Shelley uses more thought out sentences to convey how the monster is reacting to the knowledge. Shelley is using negative connotations to describe the monster’s life. For example, “hideously” and “loathsome”, this is giving off the sad effect of the monsters feelings. The connotation is setting up a sad mood, and allowing us to feel for the monster.

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Quote: “Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me, that what was before desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.”

In this section, Shelley is describing the scenery of this chapter. The monster is slowly realizing what is going on around him. His senses are growing enough that he is realizing sights and smells. The monster is noticing that the seasons are changing around him. He smells delightful things, and is seeing “a thousand sights of beauty”. The monster is finally encountering beauty and happiness. This quote could help back up the theme Feeling Awe for the Nature, because the monster is finally seeing the world as a beautiful place. The structure of the wording is allowing us to feel the joy that the monster is experiencing.

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“I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased in knowledge.” pg. 85, ch. 13
The author makes the tone of the sentence sad because the monster is saying the more he learns the more depressed he is. He also talks about feelings of agony and sorrow that increase and don’t go away, which relate to the monster being alone ever since his “birth”. This relates to romanticism because many authors wrote about depression during the romantic period. Romantic writers also wrote about learning new things. In the book the monster is lonely and that is a recurring theme in romantic works. These words also go with Shelley’s style because she uses a lot of dark words in her writing.

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“Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless. It surprised me, that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure. My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight, and a thousand sights of beauty.”
81-82/ ch 13
Mary Shelley uses diction to further show the emotions felt by the monster about the season change. This quote is showing the seasons changing from winter to spring. The monster is seeing all of these visuals that spring is coming and winter is passing. He is experiencing several senses with spring approaching. He senses delight and beauty with flowers blooming. In the winter, he felt deserted and gloom. The author, Mary Shelley,  uses sensory details to describe the senses the monster experienced during the change in seasons. The author’s tone was has warm and happy since spring is approaching. The diction words she uses to create the warm, happy feeling is “gratified, refreshed, delight, and beauty.” This conveys the reader on how the monster feels. The Gothic/romantic writing is emphasizing the nature change.

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“Autumn passed thus. I saw, with surprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon.”

94/ Ch 15

This passage shows the emphasis on nature that romantic writers did. When the monster first begins his learning and comes across the cottage it is winter. Now the weather is returning to this state. So far the monster has had no problems with the cottagers, but now that the weather is turning it shows that the state of sadness and despair is going to return. The passage still has a positive connotation like the word “lovely” showing that the monster, at this time, still is positive and has hope. The passage stays with the theme that weather foreshadows events.

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Quote: “My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language”
ch 13/ pg.84
This quote by the creature is an example of direct characterization through first person point of view. The creature is directly informing the reader how he is spending his days, and directly tells us the creature’s actions. It is showing that he is willing to learn the human life style. This is also explaining that the creature is learning very quickly. The reader knows that first person point of view is being used because of the pronouns ‘my’ and ‘I’. The attitude of the character is also shown in this quote. The reader understands that the creature is really eager to learn the human life style quickly. The creature also doesn’t want to be different from regular humans so he trying to learn how humans live.

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Quote:“He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him”. Chapter 15, p.g. 94
This quote by the monster also shows the darkness of the era. Victor left the monster for dead because he was afraid of it. The monster was so upset with his creator,Victor, that he wanted revenge and wanted to understand why Victor left him in the house all alone for that period of time.The mood for this quote is sad and depressing. It shows how bad the monster was hurt emotionally and he wants to get back at Victor or at least tell him how he feels.

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“One day, when the sun shone on the red leaves that strewed the ground, and diffused cheerfulness, although it denied warmth.”
94/ Ch 15
“One day, when the sun shone on the red leaves that strewed the ground, and diffused cheerfulness, although it denied warmth” is figurative language because the quote is describing how the sun is shining on the red leaves and it is portraying sort of a happy feeling in the beginning however, it then says how it denies warmth implying that although the sun is shining and it is cheerful weather, the monster is distraught in the time being no matter what the weather portrays.

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“Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”93/ch 15

Mary Shelley's style is expressed here in the use of a Gothic literature. In this section she talks about “Satan” and “Devils” which is part of Gothic literature more specifically she is talking about people from a faraway mysterical place. She also shows another part of Gothic literature through showing him as an outcast as stated “Solitary” meaning alone. Within this Shelley uses indirect characterization to show that the creature thinks of himself as a lesser to every thing including Satan.

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“These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity."
93/ ch 15
What the monster is describing is significant because Mary Shelley chose to use cacophonous words like despondency and benevolent for this piece of writing. The Words benevolent, amiable, admiration, and compassionate truly gives the writing a positive connotation a tells us how the monster feels about the villagers. Despondency, solitude, and deformity would have a negative connotation and show that the monster is fighting with an internal conflict; he doesn’t know whether or not he should talk to them because he may be rejected. Even though Shelley is using cacophonous words it just shows the unexpressed tone that the monster is sad because he is not like the villagers. This shows how the tone the monster displays, sets the tone of the novel and affects it by being hopeless and then changing to having hope in the future. This also relates to the romantic time period because the monster is wandering as a rebel and an outcast.

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Quote: Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose with in me Ch15/ Pg 92
Throughout most of the book we she how Shelley uses formal diction to promote the tone and sincerity of the character’s feelings and actions. Such like in this quote that I found, the monster reveals how he compares himself to the devil and as he watches the simple life and pleasure that the family has, he feels jealous of how he can never have that. Shelley reveals this emotion through formal diction, she uses words life ‘bliss’ instead of ‘joy’ or happiness’, she describes the monsters jealousy as “a bitter gall of envy” instead of just saying he’s jealous of the normal, simple life and the monster longs to have. This creates a melancholy tone for the reader and makes them give sympathy for the monster.

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“I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.”

Chapter 13 page 85

In this quote the monster is explaining his early years to Frankenstein. The monster wishes to learn more of humans and the world, but his knowledge leads him to an existential crisis. The monster’s internal struggle for a deeper meaning convey a romantic tone. His romantic search for knowledge is overshadowed by his dark realization that he may never truly be happy in his given form. Words like agony and sorrow show the more sinister realizations of his increasing intelligence. The gothic style of literature is shown in this quote because the monster’s romantic inquiries of the monster are quickly enveloped in an inescapable feeling of sorrow and despair.

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"I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free, and there was none to lament my annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them."
Ch. 15/ Pg. 91

The author uses this quote to help bring back the theme of loneliness. The monster starts reading John Milton's Paradise Lost and starts relating it to his own life, even though the book itself is fiction.The monster does not understand why he exists. He’s trying to figure out his place in the world and connect himself to the rest of humanity. When the monster says “ I was dependant on none and related to none”, this could also symbolize Victors feeling of loneliness that he has encountered since he has created the monster.

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Quote:“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base.”
84/ Ch 13
Response:Shelley used the positive connotative meanings of the words powerful, virtuous, and magnificent paired with the negative connotations of the words vicious and base to create a paradox. This paradox is meant to make the reader think about the overall complexity of the human race as viewed from the outside and unfamiliar monster’s point of view. This shows the time period of the writing because during the romantic period the writers began to look more into the complexity of emotions of the reader, whether it was to do with the industrial or political revolution or with inter and intrapersonal connections. This paradox shows the disconnect between human’s actions and their intent, and is showing sometimes as humans we are blind to it and all it takes is something like a simple creature to look at people’s actions to notice.

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“The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition."
Ch.15/ p.94

This quote by the monster shows extreme internal conflict taking place within the monster. Words such as “yearned” and “ambition” help convey the monsters feelings to reveal himself to his secret family. Shelley's diction helps convey how trapped the monster feels.  The monster desires the love and affection of others. Shelly uses words with a positive connotation such as “sweet” and “loved” to show the feelings that are absent inside of the monster. As the monster becomes more and more education, he begins to realize his own feelings, and his lack of interpersonal relations.

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“Was I, then, monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
Ch. 13/ p. 85
As the creation begins to describe to Victor what he has been doing since being created, he recounts learning about humans and their way of life in society. From Victor’s point of view, the monster is a menace and despicable creation. This differs from the creation’s after he questions if he is a monster. The diction used by the monster, although simple, creates a sympathetic, sad tone regarding the monster’s feelings. By pondering whether or not he is a “blot” on the face of Earth, the monster conveys a negative connotation towards how he perceives himself. This quote clearly indicates that Frankenstein’s creation is feeling confused and is in disarray. The feelings exemplified by the creation indicate the theme of “wandering as a rebel and an outcast” because he feels that he alone in the world and has no one.

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“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.” | 85/ Ch.13 | The author uses point of view and figurative language in this quote as a simile comparing the monster’s newfound knowledge of the human culture and history to a lichen being stuck to a rock. Point of view because Shelly is having the monster narrate, and in doing so, the readers really get a feel for how lonely and depressed he is. The figurative language is a simile that means that the monster is learning more and more depressing things about his life in this world, such as he is truly his own species and not even remotely human, and like a lichen on a rock this knowledge has stuck to his brain and will never let go. Additionally, this quote relates to the romantic belief of gaining forbidden knowledge, and this is because the monster was never meant to learn about himself or the human nature. So the more he finds out, the more depressed he is, and the more he wishes to join human society even though he can’t. Ultimately knowledge, although it benefits the monster in survival, is the monster greatest enemy.

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“The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protectors.”
Ch. 13/ pg. 82

In this excerpt from the novel, the author is subtly using diction to connect the monster to Safie. They are alike because of the fact that she is absent of knowledge just like Victor’s monster. He is slowly gaining more and more intelligence along with Safie, learning words and emotions. However, the difference between them is despite Safie’s lack of knowledge, she is greeted with love and affection, unlike the monster. The author uses words like “gay”, “happy”, and “joy” to emphasize the love she is welcomed with. The author is connecting these two characters by using “she and I”, which gives the reader more sympathy for the monster. The cottagers love for Safie that the author portrays further emphasizes the evilness in Victor for abandoning his monster. The author even uses the word “protectors” when the monster is referring to the cottagers, showing that, although they have no idea he is even there, he feels a sense of protection that he has never been able to feel before due to his abandonment by Victor.

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“The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.”
Ch 15/ pg.91
The author uses personification to describe the monsters self pride in this quote. He says, “I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories.” He is proud of himself for doing something to better his mind and education while his friends were just doing ordinary/everyday things. This quote makes the reader infer that the monster is going to keep reading and keep doing things to expand his knowledge, because he likes how it makes him feel.

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“He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature: but I was wretched, helpless, and alone. Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.”

Ch 15 pg 92

During chapter 15, Shelley, at the end of the paragraph, uses long, drawn out sentences when the creature compares his experiences with those described in Paradise Lost. In the first sentence, the creature takes his time in listing off all the positive things Adam had after just being created, while using small details to describe his own situation. Shelley likely did this so that the reader would directly see the dramatic differences in their upbringings without explicitly stating them. Furthermore, in saying, “Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition . . . ,” many readers might acquire a deeper feel for the darkness and fear that is perceived by those who view the creature, while also being able to connect better with the creature’s inner conflicts.