Question

What is the main effect of the scene with the lightning strike on the reader?

Answer 1

It is 2 hope this helped

Answer 2

The correct answer is 2. It suggests the power of nature is beyond the control of the narrator

Indeed, this incident in the life of Victor Frankenstein occurred before his creation of the monster and it definitely foreshadows Victor’s future actions with very Gothic and Romantic imagery. The storm represents the havoc and destruction his experiment will bring upon him and his family and friends. The tree represents the collective society that will inevitably be affected by his actions. The thin ribbons of wood are symbolically like the body parts that he will gather and put together to create the fiend and he will do this with electricity.

The term “branches of study” evokes the destroyed branches of the tree and symbolizes Frankenstein’s per version of the branches of science he will use for his experiments. Because a storm is used, the atmosphere is very ominous and conveys the message the Victor Frankenstein will have the arrogance of pretending to control forces that are actually beyond his control.