How does Mary shelly use of language in chapters 1 and 5 show the contrast in the atmosphere and Victor Frankenstein's behaviour.

Chapter one gives me information about Victors life before his emotions and his obsession for the monster take over. In chapter one victor is very happy we know this because he speaks lovingly of his parents and speaks to Elizabeth with high emotions for example he calls her his promised gift.

In chapter five he describes the weather as being dark, gloomy and cold e.g. it was a dreary night in November that I had behold my toils. The surroundings in the beginning of chapter five to Victor are very relieved to have created his monster. Chapter five is very dark because its in November this makes the atmosphere a lot better. The difference between the weather and surroundings in chapter one and five is chapter 1 is very cheerful and full of life and chapter five is very dark and evil. This shows the contrast between the two scenes.

In paragraph two Shelly plays with Victors reactions to the monster e.g. I had selected his features beautifully and beautiful great god!. Shelly achieves a feeling of horror by putting in the detail of the monster e.g. yellow skin scarcely covering the muscles. In paragraph three Shelly tells the reader that victors dreams had become a nightmare because Victor says all of his regrets and says nothing positive about the creation of the monster, this means he hated the monster and would not nurture it. In paragraphs four, five, six and seven shelly describes victor as a nervous wreck. Victor is becoming ill and he was really down. Victor says he has created a monster and later on he finds out that his mother has passed away. All that keeps going through Victors mind is about the monster. In paragraphs eight and nine victor meets Henry Clerval this makes Victor think of his childhood, elizabeth and his father. This made Victor forget the horror and misfortune. In paragraph thirteen Shelly shows how Victor feels by writing words that are scary. When Victor arrives back at his apartment with Cleval he goes to his room. Victor feels all agitated and finally plucks up enough courage to push back the door. To Victors relief the monster has gone.

Later on in the story victor becomes ill because of a fever, Elizabeth takes care of him and he eventually recovers.

Mary Shelly is very clever in the way that she wrote the story Frankenstein because she use a lot of different language this causes her to get the right effect in chapter one and five. Shelly has also placed images in the right places these can cause tension and gives the reader an idea of what is happening.