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Clerval’s desire to colonize shows that he is actually business savvy, not unlike his father.
Britain colonized a lot of land in India.
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What happens to Clerval? This keeps the reader interested and invested in the story.
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This is something we noted in chapter 2 which Frankenstein now observes for himself.
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A few things are happening here.
Firstly, Frankenstein believes that his suffering is “unparalleled”. This is an example of he egocentricity.
Secondly, he hopes for the day when he will wed Elizabeth- an example of Frankenstein’s earnest love for her.
Finally, there is a bit of a role reversal. Intuitively, we want to believe that the creation is servant to the creator. Here, however, Frankenstein (the creator) is “slave” to his creation.
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This probably alludes to Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Which in turn alludes to Christ’s crucifixion.
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You can tell that this novel was written by a Romantic author, not everyone can appreciate nature as much as they did.
Solitude, nature and friendship all come together here. Solitude brings about an appreciation of nature, which yields better relationships with friends.
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These lines are from Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”.
Clerval has continued to study literature, past his loves of chivalry and oriental literature.
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This quote is taken from Leigh Hunt’s The Story of Rimini, which was dedicated to Lord Byron (who was a close friend of Mary and Percy).
In fact, Hunt was a close friend and mentor of Percy Shelley.
Percy Shelley’s poem “To Wordsworth” begins,
Poet of Nature.
Which identifies Wordsworth with this quote. Many Romantic poets aspired to Wordsworth’s ability.
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Mary Shelley’s History of a Six Weeks Tour includes a description of the Rhine similar to this.
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OOPS!
Frankenstein said he saw “the white cliffs of Britain” in late December just recently in chapter 18:
Did Mary Shelley make a mistake?
Or was she showing us that Frankenstein is an unreliable narrator?
If you had kept on reading the rest of the sentence says that it is now FEBRUARY. Yes, they had gotten to Britain in October, visited the cliffs in December and now it is February.
England is in Britain