When reading Frankenstien you can see that elements from the romantic era are brought into it. Especially how how the author Mary Shelley uses the imagination through out the book. One particular part in Frankenstein were he starts describe the creature to us. Dr. Frankenstein says, "His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustours black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips." Were seeing the vision that Dr. Frankenstein is seeing with creating this monster. Mary Shelley could have simplistictacly put how the creature looked disfigured and horrifing, but instead she let the imagination come to life giving us a vision of exactly what the creature looked like.
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Chapter 4 Volume 1
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