Frankenstein

Mary Shelly's contemptuously despairing tone emphasizes Victorrs disappointed with his animated creature. Victorr's reaction toe the his own creation will inevitably lead to his own downfall.

The diction in this selection shows Victorr's hatred for the creature he toiled over for so many months, striving to create. The monster takes its first breath on a "dreary night in November" where Victorr's first sees the "accomplishment of [his] toils". A dreary night paints a mental picture of a dark, damp, foggy night. A night that horror movies take place in, a night where things take a turn for the worse for Victorr. Victorr described his monster as a horrid "wretch" with "dull yellow eye[s]". From the moment Victorr's creature took its first breath of life, Victorr regretted bringing this foul thing into the world. The monsters eyes resemble a sort of rotting undeath. From this point forward Victorr's creature will always be there, either mentally or physically, haunting Victorr until his day of demise. Victorr will never be able to rest until the creature or himself ceases to live.

Victorr uses imagery in great detail to describe the hideous being which he created, but shows no sympathy. Victorr describes his creature as having "water eyes" that are set in "dun-white sockets" in a crude, swollen face. Everything that combined to make this creature resembles death and decay. The eyes of the creature have been decaying for so long that the pigment in the eyes has faded away to white. The monster has "yellow skin [that] scarcely" covers his body. The skin has turned pale from lack of sunlight and shrunk to fit the body like a straight jacket. The creature has literally risen from the dead to lead a life of unhappiness and destruction. If the creature was this horrid to Victorr, his creature, what shall the rest of the world think of him?

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