Characterization
Characterization is an author or poet's use of description, dialogue, dialect, and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character or to make the character more vivid and realistic.
Shelley describes her characters ( I mainly mean the monster ) with gross detail and each character has such dramatic ( here I mainly mean Victor ) speeches and opinions. Each sentence is an English teacher's dream: full of meaning, big words and drama. Victor himself goes on an emotional roller coaster and Shelley handles it well, even making him break from his story when it gets hard for him to continue. |
I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever--that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear ear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. Victor expressing how smart, deep and sad he is after the death of his mother.
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