Mary Shelley incorporates nature many times throughout Frankenstein. List some examples and explain why the author includes them.

Shelley,
like most Romantic writers, uses nature to represent ' emotions or state of mind and to reflect
the morality or immorality of characters' actions.

Examples:

1. The novel begins with 's letters to his sister.  Before he reaches the Arctic and
becomes entrenched in ice, his portrayal of nature is romanticized.  He finds the ride of the
sled across the Russian snow "pleasant" and thinks that the Arctic breeze against his
cheeks is a "wind of hope."

2. For, nature is idyllic and
soothing.  In...