6.2.1

Extreme Landscapes

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Extreme Landscapes

Shelley uses many locations across the globe within her novel. There are symbolic reasons why Shelley choses these settings and they reflect many different things about the characters.

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Extreme landscapes

  • The Arctic sea.
  • The Orkneys.
  • The Alps.
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Extreme

  • These extreme settings reflect the extremes that the characters push themselves to in the search for knowledge.
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Isolated

  • They are also very isolated settings too, which reflects the bleak and desolate feelings that characters suffer from.
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Sublime nature

  • They could also be said to be sublime nature (see Burke in Philosophy section) in its purest form, expressing the fundamental power that the natural world has over humanity.
  • In the novel, nature inspires intense emotions in humans, restores their soul or even threatens their life.

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1Narrative Structure

2Character Summaries

3Intertextuality & Allusions

4Biographic Context

5Chapter Summaries

6Key Themes

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