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Within Frankenstein, nature plays a key role as it serves as the focal point of both Walton's and Victor's endeavors. As it appears, nature offers the characters comfort and helps restore their peace of mind. Moreover, the "creative force" of nature seems to be the enticement for both Walton and Victor's actions. What's even more significant though, which is in some accord with Romantic ideals, is the message the story relays that nature is not something to be conquered, but rather something to embrace and harmonize with.
In concurrence with the latter, Frankenstein also suggests, again using nature as the advocate, that there is a fine line between discovering a union with nature and all its grandeur and exploiting nature. Concerning this, it may be conceived that Shelley is critical of the Romantic Era and its ideals due to the potential, and perhaps even inevitable, danger it brings when taken to the extreme in conjunction with the upsurge of modern technology and......

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