Examples Of Diction In Frankenstein

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In her novel, Frankenstein, Mary Shelly uses descriptive diction to illustrate the powerful forces of nature that parallel the speaker’s feelings. The passage begin with the image of winter as describes by “the surface of the earth was hard and chill and bare.” The vivid imagery that results from Shelly’s choice of diction, depicts a scene of the raw, biting forces of nature, but the season is also characterized as gloomy. Similarly, the speaker mood parallel’s the landscape around him, as he is bitter and depressed as he traverses on his journey. In addition, the continuous and ever present force of nature in the passage further underlie the speaker’s feeling and mood, even as they change. As “snow fell, and the waters were hardened, but I