Friday, 3 April 2015

When Victor describes the monster in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, what terrifies him most?

In 's
, there is a great deal of vividthat helps share Victor's sense of horror
when looking athe has brought to life.

...by the glimmer
of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...


Victor then describes how it takes its first breath. In an instanta
moment of epiphanythe painshad taken to construct a creature of beauty are illuminated before
him to see, instead, the truth of what he has done: he has made a horrifying mistake, a crime
against God and naturea monstrous looking being.

I had
selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the
work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth
of pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast to his watery
eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his
shrivelled complexion...

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