Nature

• ‘It was a most beautiful season….. But my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature'


  nature flourishes but Victor is blind by obsession
• ‘I did not watch the blossoms or the expanding leaves’


  Nature’s natural fertility
• ‘the rain pattered dismally against the panes’


  nature is present outside the workshop but can’t break through Victor’s hubris
• Victor's nightmares 


  shows he has disturbed the natural order and usurped God and roles of women through unnatural creation. He is also ill from guilt, regret and fear
• ‘the present season was divine indeed’


  After the birth, Victor aknowledges fertile. Nature & natural world restored
• 'During our walks, Cleval endeavoured to raise my spirits’


  Nature as healer
•  ‘lightning dazzled my eyes’ 'blasted tree stump'


  lightning is synonymous with appearance of monster. As the lightning flashes it illuminates different parts of the landscape. Nature parallels the creation of the monster. It is the destructive part of nature that illuminates the monster to Victor
•  ‘my heart which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy’


  sublime nature is a healer for the monster
• ‘The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge'


  Nature is the monster’s real parent
• ‘these bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings’


  vital principle from within, Victor’s isolation causes the monster to seek nature for comfort