Nature Is A Healing Force In Frankenstein

Victor becomes ill sometime during the story after he leaves home and goes off to study at college. It is assumed by his father that he will feel better after being with his family and Elizabeth, the woman who he will later marry. But really all Victor wants is to take a breath of fresh air alone, showing how he truly feels about solitude and the environment. It makes the reader wonder what he really cares about, and if he even misses his family. "We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress . . ." Throughout everything that happens to Victor in the book. Including the death of his mother, brother, Elizabeth, and his father. All that seems to calm him is his return to nature. I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mount Blanc; I wept like a child: "Dear mountains! my own beautiful ale! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to

In the novel of Frankenstein, Mary Shelly shows that she thinks nature has the ability to heal. Has a cleansing effect on those who indulge in it. It restores a broken soul and heals the body as well as clears the mind. This is shown in the text when Victor says”...the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking,reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws,was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands. These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving”(Pg.99) This shows that the essence of the nature that surrounds him is making his thoughts clearer and cleansing him in a way. That her thoughts of nature that it is pure even when the things around you are corrupt and

Ambition and the thirst for knowledge leads Victor to fabricate the Creature. By doing so, he defies nature, fate, and destiny. Victor goes against the natural realm and creates life, rebelling against nature. As Victor tediously worked on his creation, he lost sight of nature, “Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves- sights which before always

As the novel goes on everyone Victor once cared for are decimated in the path of his creation. "I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head" (Shelley 103). Now, due to his unwavering lust for knowledge, all that was once good and innocent has been stripped from him. This has left him as a former shell of himself, to be compared with his own creation, solely driven by vengeance.

In 1818 Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life. The creature kills William, Henry Clerval, and Elizabeth. Victor had promised to make a female creature for the creature, but he did not fulfill his promise. This makes the creature enraged. The creature runs away and Victor follows him. Victor gets on a boat with Walton. Victor dies and the creature comes and is very sad that his creator has died. The creature says that he must end his suffering and he jumps into the ocean. In the novel Frankenstein, Shelley uses the theme of nature to show how it is like the characters of the story and how it affects the characters.

Shelley depicts the romantic’s love for nature and the desire to understand and acquire nature’s power. Frankenstein finds comfort when he is at his lowest, but at the same time, he is horrified by his creation and its quest for revenge.

There are several interesting aspects of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein such as brith and death, morality and judgment, and creation. For this essay I decided to discuss Mary Shelley’s critique on science and the Enlightenment movement and her use of the sublime by looking at the way she uses nature as a theme throughout the novel and pairs it with the monster. This pairing is especially notable in the, for this assignment, selected passage. Previous to the passage Victor Frankenstein is walking through the surrounding nature of Geneva, trying to handle the guilt of knowing that the monster he had created murdered his younger brother William.

He decided to put his whole life to learning the human body and finding ways to bring a dead human body to life. Due to his desire for knowledge and his project for bringing back a human being to life, Victor didn't have any connection with his family and friends. Victor's has a desire to know more about science than to live his life to the fullest. This shows that Victor is a maniac who dedicates his time into one experiment to expand his knowledge. Because of this, he is ruining his health as well as will to live a happy life.

Henry’s visit cures Victor of his illness because he reintroduces him into community and re-exposes him to nature. Victor remarks says that it was Clerval who broke him of his dangerous alienating patterns, “call[ing] forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children” (Shelley 94). Moreover, it is safe to assume that community and human interaction is integral to Victor’s mental state and humanity for it maintains his connection to nature and allows him to exercise

Mary Shelley uses nature several ways in this novel: The natural surroundings of this novel are shown to have restorative powers, do not harm nature for your own advantage, and as a method to seclude oneself from the real world. In my opinion, Mary Shelley is trying to tell us that nature should not be altered. Nature in the novel is used as a central theme to connote everything natural. Mary Shelley in the novel Frankenstein has used the theme of the appreciation of nature to show that if one defies nature the consequences are severe however, if one appreciates nature and stays in the natural order everything will be alright.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley explores the fight between man and nature through the story of eager scientist Victor Frankenstein, who artificially creates life from the body parts of the deceased with disastrous consequences. By highlighting the intense power of nature, Shelley comments on the folly of attempting to subjugate nature to bend to one’s will.

A novel’s setting contributes to the atmosphere of a story in a myriad of ways. Setting provides insight of a character’s point of view, the culture of a specific time, and transports the reader to another world. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley describes breathtaking scenes of nature in immense detail. Her descriptions of the Alps and the destroyed tree relate to the pursuit of knowledge, power and the idea of “playing God”, by providing places of contemplation and comparison for a reader to ponder on these issues.

In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, man tries to tamper with nature. This is an enormous mistake, because his experiences prove that man should respect the omnipotent power of nature so man can be happy. Man should respect nature because if man goes beyond his limits, then nature lets man creates all types of consequences for himself which proves Shelley’s point to respect nature’s powers.When people look at nature, they are automatically healed just by its looks. This is a much more powerful force than anything man is capable of doing, thus nature is all powerful. Nature is constant, unlike man who is constantly changing, which shows that nature is always in control.

In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley explores the argument of nature versus nurture. The conflict of nature versus nurture is displayed throughout  the Gothic novel and in the development of the characters. When looking at an argument such as nature versus nurture, the side one may want to assume is difficult to find. Mary Shelley displays points in the novel to allow the reader to see both sides of the argument, giving each side valid points. The shifts in tone and mood when nature is displayed shows an immediate nurturing factor in the novel. The shifts allow the story to keep pace, and not become to stagnant. The display of character development with a lack of nurturing shows that without nurturing, humans are still able to develop with a sense of integrity.

“Here we find nature to be the circumstance which[…] judges like a god all men that come to her.” is one of the first statements by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay “Nature”, referring to nature’s role in romanticism. Nature, as well as science, are one of the main topics depicted in writings of the romantic period. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can be attached to these writings. Her novel implies many natural and scientific characteristics that approach throughout the novel and finally clash by Victor Frankenstein’s creation of the monster. The following essay states the importance of nature and science in Frankenstein and argues that Frankenstein’s monster is a personalization of the danger involved in connecting both nature and science.