Dies, leaving Walton to lament his death. Walton is an explorer, ever chasing more .
Knowledge. Walton and Frankenstein compliment each others" characters perfectly, .
highlighting everything that needs to be brought out and nothing that doesn't.
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is set in eighteenth century Geneva, .
the Swiss alps, Ingolstadt, England, Scotland and the northern ice. The setting of cold .
climate, mountains, ice and snow symbolizes how cold a creature is if it is not created by .
a deity, also how desolate and bleak the story will be, and almost foreshadowing tragedy.
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The author's word choices are very formal and stiff in spots, very close to .
Shakespearean language, this example of formal, stiff language is from the beginning of .
chapter ten: "I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the .
sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is .
advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley." This passage feels .
very slow, it bores the reader within the first sentence, effectively discouraging him/her .
from reading further into the book. .
In other spots, however, the language can be bright, beautiful and full of imagery, .
giving the reader a sense of exhilaration. This passage, also from the beginning of chapter .
ten is quite majestic: "The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of .
the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn .
silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was broken only by the .
brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or .
the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through .
the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been .
but a plaything in their hands." Shelley's use of "big-sounding" words like "vast" and .