Light and Fire
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Mary Shelley may not have known about UV radiation and melanomas, but it doesn't take a scientist to know that a sunburn is bad news. You also don't n...
The Bible
(Click the symbolism infographic to download.)The Bible isn't exactly a symbol as much as a pattern of imagery, but once you start looking it's all over. Check it out:The monster is compared to Ada...
Adam, Eden, Other Biblical Business
(Click the symbolism infographic to download.)The monster is compared to Adam and the creation of man. OK, sure, this would mean Victor is also paralleled with the creator, possibly God, and as som...
Exploration
(Click the symbolism infographic to download.)The entire story of exploration for knowledge, as symbolized by Captain Walton's quest for the "perpetual splendor" of the North Pole (Letter 1.2), bec...
The Sublime
(Click the symbolism infographic to download.)Quick Brain Snack: one of the main things to know about the Romantic movement is that it was all about the sublime. The Sublime is a literary and philo...
The Spark
(Click the symbolism infographic to download.)Picture this: a lab full of bubbling beakers, somewhere in a creepy haunted mansion on a deserted moor. There's a thunderstorm, of course, and a giant...