How does Shelley create an atmosphere of horror and dread around Victor’s experiments?
Shelley creates an atmosphere of horror and dread around Victor's experiments by using very descriptive language to describe his actions (i.e his visits to the charnel-houses). Also, by describing the effect of his experiments on him (how it makes him impossible for him even to appreciate his surroundings), readers feel scared and dread what will happen next. He gets taken over by "slow fevers" every night and suffers from nightmares. We can also see he is going slightly mad as he starts thinking and describing and treating his experiment as he would his child. Shelley uses words from the semantic field of birth (‘conceive’, ‘labour’, ‘bore’) to accentuate this fact.
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