At the beginning of this chapter, a letter from his father explains to Victor the circumstances of William's murder. He leaves for Geneva immediately to comfort and grieve with his family. But it is dark when he reaches Geneva and gets close to home, during a thunderstorm and Victor is started to see a large figure peering at him…The geographical description of Victor's native country: “Jura, Mont Blanc, Geneva, Secheron, Plainpalais, Saleve, Alps of Savoy, Belrive…” All these names of places show that Shelley is very precise. At the age of 16 she ran away to France and Switzerland with Percy Bysshe Shelley and in the summer of 1816 she started writing Frankenstein.
[...] The lightning storm that greets Victor is a staple of Gothic narrative. It necessarily reminds one of the classical preambles to any ghost story: "It was a dark and stormy night . " The style of description changes as well. The progression of the description: At the beginning the landscape almost looks like Eden thanks to the vocabulary of light: “bright summit of Mont Blanc, your summits are clear, blue and placid, peace” But then the atmosphere becomes dark, the genuine place of hell: “night, dark mountains, gloomily, a vast and dim scene of evil, dark, night”. [...]
[...] Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, Chapter 7 reviews At the beginning of this chapter, a letter from his father explains to Victor the circumstances of William's murder. He leaves for Geneva immediately to comfort and grieve with his family. But it is dark when he reaches Geneva and gets close to home, during a thunderstorm and Victor is started to see a large figure peering at him Victor's return to his country A realistic novel, a mirror of Shelley's life: The geographical description of Victor's native country: Mont Blanc, Geneva, Secheron, Plainpalais, Saleve, Alps of Savoy, Belrive All these names of places show that Shelley is very precise. [...]
APA Style reference
For your bibliographyOnline reading
with our online readerContent validated
by our reading committee
