Frankenstein – Setting – Quotes – Flashcards
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'By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me' (p.58)
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Chapter 7 - discussing his journey through the mountains before returning home to Geneva after the death of his brother - suggests restorative powers of setting/ the mountains, Romanticism
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'I saw the lightnings playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures'
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Chapter 7 - lightning
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'vivd flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire'
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Chapter 7 - lightning, illuminating
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'These sublime and magnificent scenes... although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it' (p.75)
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Chapter 7 - regarding the restorative power of nature
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'..filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul' (p.75)
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Chapter 10 - Victor - talks about he is in awe of the mountain and how it lifts him
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'I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink, and the trees that shaded me with their foliage' (p.80)
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Chapter 11 - Monster - describes the forest, nature appears to be the only thing that welcomes him
