In chapter 5 it starts in a “dreary night in November” and “The Lifeless monster opens his eyes; Frankenstein then realises that the monster is ugly and that only god can create life, then he leaves the laboratory. Frankenstein is upset and disappointed about what he has created he paces up and down his bedroom. He then falls asleep in his clothes and dreams about his dead mother rotting in her grave. In the night Frankenstein wakes up and sees the monster trying to speak. Frankenstein spends the rest of the night regretting that he had made the monster; he spends the rest of the night in the courtyard. In the morning he goes to meet his friend Clerval; they both return to the apartment and he is worried if the monster is still there as he opens the door then realise that the monster is not there anymore Frankenstein is very happy about this. Frankenstein becomes very ill over the winter and the friend Clerval look after him in the spring Frankenstein makes a full recovery.
Tension is built up in chapter five by the use of gothic elements. Which create a sense of horror or terror. Mary Shelley uses pathetic fallacy at the start of chapter five as it sets the scene by say “it was a dreary night of November”; another gothic element is “I saw the grave worm’s crawling in the folds of the flannel”. Other gothic elements are “Mingled with this horror” also “dim and yellow light of the moon; and another one is “dreaded spectre”.
In chapter five Frankenstein goes thought a range of emotions. He is confused because he thought that the monster would have been beautiful and I was ugly; he is also disgusted at what he had created. Frankenstein also panics at the thought of what he has done and regrets creating life. In the morning he goes to see his friend Clerval and is happy when he comes home to find that the monster is not there and he is very excited about it; but he becomes ill and delirious.
Another was she builds up tension is when she uses contrast in the chapter there are many different contrasts. There is a vast amount of emotion within Frankenstein these emotions are Joy, terror, and revulsions. Also there is “horror contrast” of Frankenstein intending that the monster is going to be beautiful but it results in ugliness. There is a contrast of pace sometimes in the chapter it is fast when he is describing the monster this is when he panics and is worried; sometimes it is slow when he Frankenstein is calm. The last part in contrast im going to talk bout is the contrast of colour black and white for example “The lustrous black hair” and “pearly white teeth”.
Mary Shelley uses a range of language and she builds up the horror using adjectives, she uses the word “dreary” to describe the scene. Mary also uses a lot of repetitive words; the word “yellow” comes up a lot; for example “yellow skin”, “yellow eyes” and “the yellow light”. Another part of the language is sentence length a long sentence is for example “His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath, his hair was a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed 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. By contrasting Short sentences is “Beautiful.” and “Great God.”
Mary Shelley uses great use of irony. There is sophoclean irony he wanted beauty and he gets ugliness. There is also dramatic irony he thinks the monster will be there when the monster returns but is not irony when he is terrified and worried for nothing.
The author Mary Shelley makes use of allusion, she refers to “the Ancient marine” The poem starts with “like one who on a lonely road” the poem is a writer as a person called Coleridge
Mary Shelley uses alliteration for example “I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit”; another one is “change of colour” There is also another one “Such joy so strongly turned to bitterness.”
Moving on to the use of assonance an example of this is “Infusing life into an inanimate body.”
Vigorous Verbs is the next one im going to talk about these or such as “trembled”, and “rushed” the last one is a “present practical”.
Mary Shelley users articulate words these words include “lassitude”, “Florins” and “unwearied
Next I wish to explore is archaic sentence structures one of these are “Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud and I descended upon the glacier”
Finally marry Shelley leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions; this is a use of a cliff-hanger one of these questions is “Were is the monster?”
In my conclusion I feel that Mary Shelley had created great tension is chapter five mainly thought archaic sentence structures.
