In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein shows a lot of symbols that have a meaning to them like for example fire and light. The light symbolizes knowledge, discovery, and enlightenment for Victor meanwhile the fire in the novel represents the flame with the creature and Victor. According to http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/creating/pages/origins.htm "Consider the symbolic significance of interactions between the natural and supernatural worlds in these works. How do these works explore and define human nature through reference to the supernatural? Supernatural motifs appear throughout literature but are most prominent in the literary genre labeled “Gothic,” which developed in the late eighteenth-century as a reaction to the central ideology of the Enlightenment that valorized human reason"

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