"The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of Empires." (107)
Shelley uses this particular piece of literature to bring religion into the text. Although Frankenstein does not have a lot of religious subtext, religion is a part of human instinct, as one wants to believe in something so they can entrust themselves to some form of higher power, whatever that may be. The De Laceys act as a higher power to the creation, and prove as the beginning of a religious feeling for him.
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take a look at this one -- there are a couple of wording hiccups -- and what would happen if you were more committal in that first sentence?
ReplyDeletereally .. this whole entry feels very wishy washy and thus your point is obscured (hints, perhaps, subtly, sort of)