An accident again changed the current of my ideas. When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive,
when we witnessed a most violent and temble thunderstorm. It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and
beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house, and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a
blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin
nibbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
Why does the author use only Victor's information in this passage?
Victor is the one who wrote the novel
Readers enjoy multiple perspectives.
It allows Victor to tell the story.
It prevents readers from knowing the ending
<span>This is a contrapasso moral order. Coming from Dante's "Inferno," it is a state in which everyone who commits sins will suffer a similar punishment to themselves in hell. It was considered a type of revenge from the divine for those who had committed bad acts in their lifetimes.</span>
