English 1028F/G Chapter 16-18: notes for passage analysis.docx
24 Feb 2015
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Melancholy: pensive sadness, no obvious cause i rose early, but felt unusually melancholy. The rain depressed me; my old feelings recurred, and i was miserable. p. 116. The rain poured down in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains. : 116. I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy of complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation deep, dark, death-like solitude. p. 111 (victor) These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that i was capable of receiving. They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquilized it. p. 115 (sublime, nature"s effect on him and his emotions) Passage: two people are at odds, coming face to face with your own creation. Victor thinks he"s the master just because he"s the creature, but the creature could totally take him.
