In Frankenstein, What is the effect of nature (natural setting) on the human psyche? As in what is Shelley saying about the impact of nature on a persons thoughts and feelings

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anonymous · Answer

... I'm using Shelley's "Frankenstein" in my Ph.D. Where is this question coming from? I have read the narrative back to front several times. There is noting, essentially, about nature. The impact is the other way around. It is the individual's transgression against nature.

Wait. No. I've got it. The natural order (life and death) so discomforts Victor, following his mother's death, that he vows to discover its inner-most secrets. This inevitably leads to his going to university and later his construction of the monster. Nature antagonises Victor. He sees it as something that must be overcome.

anonymous · Answer

is it reasonable to say that nature influences Victor's thoughts, feelings, and actions- for example he is sick all winter, there is a storm when he realizes that the creature killed William, he is chasing the creature in the Artic- essentially a wasteland- against reason?