Mary Shelley describes Mont Blanc as a majestic scene that can cure the soul. She goes into depth talking about how upset Frankenstein is by the death of his family members, but after seeing Mont Blanc, he is re awakened to life from the beauty of the mountains. Frankenstein states, "my heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy" (pg 67). Mary Shelley uses visual imagery with positive language. She uses words like wonderful, stupendous, glittering, joy, and happiness. She mostly talks about how Frankenstein feels as viewing the mountains. Percy Shelley goes into more depth talking about human life, heaven, hell, dreams and more. "Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber" His language also brings out visual imagery, and his vocabulary goes into much stronger depth. He compares the positive and negative sides of life as well as compares nature to humans. Each authors pieces relate to Romanticism through their visual imagery and their sense of passion in the tone and words of the piece.
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