Monitoring Inventive Performativity and Processes

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Recommended: Use of literary devices in the Lord of the Flies

Imagery has enormous influence in an individual’s comprehension of a novel. It permits the onlooker to envision the surroundings of the character as well as the characters themselves in the novel. There are two books in particular where imagery and symbolism are significant factors. In Lord of the Flies and Frankenstein, symbolism helped book lovers rouse a thought of how Frankenstein’s beast looks. Also a thought regarding how the island the young men crashed on in Lord of the Flies was conjured up through the words. Without the utilization of imagery and perhaps symbolism, books might be meaningless and uninteresting to readers.
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the monster was composed of various human parts that were immorally dug up from graves. The use of imagery helped the readers visualize this horrendous beast with just words and very intricate details. Within the novel Mary adds things that have symbolic meaning pertaining to Frankenstein’s monster. For example, in the novel Frankenstein compares himself to Adam (Shelley ). I would like to think it was because in some religions, Adam was the first human being that was created, and Frankenstein’s monster was the first Human Beast that was made in the manner that he was made in.
That was interesting given the assumption that Victor seemed to be playing the role of God as The Creator by creating life from scratch. In the novel Victor sort of questions God by indirectly saying if he is this all-powerful creator then why would he allow disease and death to continue (Shelley ). I strongly believed that was the reason Victor Frankenstein created his monster, to find a way to end death all together. Victor Frankenstein's production of his creature puts ...

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