“…During my youthful days… I was never overcome by ennui…” (Shelley 174)
By definition the word ‘ennui’ means “a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom”; in this particular case Shelley is using this diction to describe a child’s view on life, nothing can go wrong, you are invincible. Victor is reminiscing on his childhood and how simple everything seemed to be, every child has that feeling of being invincible, they fall down and get right back up. Children don’t know what real pain, or discontent is, you need to live a life to really understand how it truly feels to be ‘overcome by ennui’.
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