Frankenstein is a famous horror story by Mary Shelley about an inventor who accidentally creates life, and is ultimately killed by his creation, along with his friends and family. ... In Frankenstein, the element of weather is used in the opening chapters in order to foreshadow the symbolic representation of nature, both assertive and destructive, used in repetition throughout the book. ... In contrast to a wind helping the main characters' journeys and adventures, the first few chapters of Frankenstein also show the obstructive behavior of weather that would be used symbolically furthe...

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