... of archaic language gives us the classic gothic feeling. Language like "demonical corpse", "convulsed" "grave-worms". The archaic language is also a good use of graphic imagery, which again is classically used in this type of genre. Shelley also uses hyperbolic language. She seems to over exaggerate a lot of things in this scene. For example, she uses repetition and exclamation marks to show how shocked Frankenstein was when he first saw the monster: "beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God!". The capital letters also show us the shock. Frankenstein is over reacting. Shelley uses false collocations to contrast evil and good. Words that would not normally go together are put together: "Horror and disgust filled my heart" Usually the phrase is 'hope and joy filled my heart' but Shelley is playing with the words to juxtapose joy and horror. The "heart" is used symbolically. It symbolises love and patriotism but in this context it symbolises ...

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