"Soon a gentle light stole over the heavens, and gave me a sensation of pleasure. I started up, and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees." (75)
The "radiant form" that is mentioned, is the moon. Shelley makes it so the moon is a representation of the mother that Victor and his creature never had. Like a mother, you can always count on the moon to be there; every night you can look up and count on it being there. Since Victor and his creature never had a mother, to them the moon holds that same security and feeling of dependability.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0509/MoonRiver_ouellet_f.jpg
The "radiant form" that is mentioned, is the moon. Shelley makes it so the moon is a representation of the mother that Victor and his creature never had. Like a mother, you can always count on the moon to be there; every night you can look up and count on it being there. Since Victor and his creature never had a mother, to them the moon holds that same security and feeling of dependability.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0509/MoonRiver_ouellet_f.jpg
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