Frankenstein 4.

“…lightning’s playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures… but its violence quickly increased…” (Shelley 74)

When lightening strikes and composes figures in the dark, never ending sky, it can be one of the most beautiful and wild scenes you can see, but when it gets out of hand it can cause serious damage, the worst being fatalities. When Victor has his initial idea of creating a human form he has a dream of what it will turn out as, he thinks that it will be a magnificent creation but it turns out the exact opposite of what he had hoped for. Shelley is using the majestic and deadly lightning as a comparison to what Frankenstein’s original hopes were for his creation and what it turned out to be in the end.