"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success" (32).
In this quotation, there is an example of personification in which Shelley gives a hurricane humanlike characteristics. A hurricane can not move a person's feelings. This gives the statement a more dramatic effect in that it exaggerates the quality of the movement. Also, the use of the personification makes the example more descriptive and gives the reader a mental image.
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what significance does the personification have in the context of what's happening in the story?
ReplyDeleteHe is being pushed forward and feels like he can not stop on this journey to create the monster just as a hurricane would push him foward with the wind.
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