Frankenstien Settings

Geneva

“and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home—the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers—she found ample scope for admiration and delight. While my companion contemplated with a serious and satis ed spirit the mag- ni cent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes. e world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.”

the words highlighted are a lot of contrasting descriptive words                                                              majestic, wonderous, sublime all indicate an “out of this world” beauty or attraction                                                             tempest and calm – juxtaposition

Geneva is where Victor grew up with his family which shaped into the man he became.                                                                                                       

 

 

Swiss Alps

“The weight upon my spirit was sensibly lightened as I plunged yet deeper in the ravine of Arve. e immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence—and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise. Still, as I ascended higher, the valley assumed a more magnificent and astonishing character. Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains, the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees formed a scene of singular beauty. But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.”

 

 

 

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