Figurative Language In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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In this excerpt, Mary Shelley uses a plethora of figurative language to achieve her purpose in showing the monster’s eagerness to understand his identity. When the monster finds a leather satchel filled with books, Shelly uses personification to capture the joy of the monster’s newfangled discovery in reading books. The books create “an infinity of new images and discovery” and establish the monster’s current goal of finding his personal history. The personification also sets up a tone of amaze and excitement. Next, Shelly contrasts personification with the use of apostrophes to describe the monster’s learning process. The monster treats the authors of these books as if they are currently living: “Pluarch taught [the monster] high thoughts.”
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