The Significance of Nature in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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In the end, nature is quintessential to Shelley's Frankenstein, in that it creates the mood, conveys the emotions, and teaches the lessons of the dangers of ambition, obscuring the boundaries between nature and science, and creating something without realizing the ramifications of one's actions.... n drawing the picture of my early days, I also recorded those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys....