Nature’s Role in Frankenstein

The writers of the amorous period portrayed constitution as a celestial microbe. In many romishtic works, natures beauty is praised with pantheistic, almost pagan, terms. To these writers, the inbred world was a direct connection to god. Through appreciation for nature, one could achieve uncanny fulfillment. The contrary, failure to surrender to cancel law, results in punishment at the custody of nature. Mary Shelley, as well as her contemporary, Samuel Coleridge, depicts the antagonistic powers of nature against those who make bold to provoke it.Victor Frankenstein offends nature in several modes. The first and foremost vilification is his attempt to gain knowledge forbidden to humanity. Then, he uses this knowledge to give an affected organism that serves no purpose in a indispensable world. Finally, Frankenstein refuses to take responsibility for his creations processions, which have obvious and dangerous consequences for society. By bodacious to tread on the laws of nature, Frankenstein conk outs the target of the cancel worlds wrath. He, much like the antique Mariner, suffers due punishment for his sin.In both(prenominal) Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein, nature is portrayed as a divine power. It is a deific force, receptive of creating transcendental beauty, as well as inflicting horrific torment upon those who snap off its laws. The Ancient Mariners crime is his senseless murder of the albatross his punishment presents itself through with(predicate) a series of natural phenomenon. Nature deprives him and his men of natural elements, pabulum and water, Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. (Coleridge 433). Nature also uses an opposite(prenominal) natural elements to cause him further suffering.For instance, the Mariner and his men mustiness endure the conflagrate of the insolate as their ship halts, the wind stops and intensifies the heat, Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt eat up All in a hot and cop per sky, The bloody sun at noon. (Coleridge 433). Frankenstein also faces retri neverthelession for his disobedience to the laws of nature. His punishment, however, is not as candid as the Mariners. Nature bestows a far more cruel and malicious fate upon Frankenstein. It uses Frankensteins wolf against him, adopting his former object of pride and manipulating the creation into a weapon against its former.Abandoned by its father, Frankensteins giant is forced to seek other parental forecast. It finds one in Mother Nature. As the zoology embarks on a lonesome(a) journey, nature teaches him the lessons that Frankenstein does not. The creature learns of the dangers of fire by yearning its hand in the flame One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I go through from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.How strang e, I thought, that the same cause should produce such opposite effectuate (Shelley 389). In other such lessons, Nature shapes its child as a barb of revenge. For instance, the creature learns of its hideousness by seeing its reflection in a pocket billiards of water, At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the the Tempter that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification. unluckilyI did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable deformity (Shelley 431). This realization evokes anger within the monster, and its resentment towards its creator grows. Nature uses Frankensteins hubristic disposition against him. When creating the monster, Victor Frankenstein gives it a gigantic stature. He states that he did this due to his haste, As the minuteness of the parts formed a coarse hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrar y to my first intention, to make a being gigantic in stature (Shelley 171).However, Frankensteins ambition also played a role in his decision to make the creature a physically intimidating size, A new species would bless me as its creator and source many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me (Shelley 172). Here, Frankenstein states his desire to become the father of a supreme race of beings. By giving the creature an enormous form, Frankenstein is assuring that it will be dominant over other species. This is not wholly a threat to nature, but it also adds to the creatures unnatural genesis.The monster is abnormally powerful, as it possesses abilities far surpassing to any other species on Earth. Therefore, it is something unnatural and cannot be apart of the natural world. Nature, instead of removing the monster straight away, uses its physical superiority to taunt Frankensteins pride. As the scientist begins his all-consuming quest to take on and kill the monst er, he is constantly mocked by his own creations power. Even at the end of his bearing, Frankenstein is still unable to capture the monster. The unnatural being has no true place or purpose in he natural world, so Nature uses the creature in the only suitable way a tool for revenge. This becomes the monsters only role in the natural world. once it has finally inflicted true punishment against Frankenstein, it will have no purpose. The monster does not belong in the natural world, and so it will be destroyed, I, the miserable and the abandoned, am abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on (Shelley 886). Revenge is its only objective, when nature finally achieves this intention it returns the monster back to nature.The creatures birth was confederate by the use of natural materials, human flesh and lightning, similarly its close is caused by Natures elements, fire, I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may affor d no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would puddle such another as I have been. I shall die. (Shelley 889). The creature is of no use to Mother Nature any longer, and so it must remove itself from the natural world. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein describes the horrors that result from invoking natures rage.The natural world, according to the Romantics, was a divine force. Like the pagan gods of Greek and Roman culture, natures wrath is terrible and unmerciful to those who dare to wrong it. Victor Frankenstein, the Promethean figure of the Romantic period, defies nature in his decision to bring unnatural life into the natural world. This is an act of blasphemy against nature, and to an extent, God himself. Frankensteins punishment for this sin is both thorough and justified. Like Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein spends his remaining life paying for his act of defiance against the gods of nature.