Victor frankenstein continues recounting the influences that lead to his great experiment:
an accident again changed the current of my ideas. when i was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible
thunderstorm. it advanced from behind the mountains of jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudnese from various quarters of the heavens. i remained, while the
storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. as i stood at the door, on a sudden i beheld a streas of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood
about twenty yards from our house, and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. when we visited it the
next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. it was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. i never beheld anything so
utterly destroyed.
before this i was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. on this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this
catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me. all that
he said threw greatly into the shade cornelius agrippa, albertus magnus, and paracelsus, the lords of my imagination, but by some fatality the overthrow of these men
disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies. it seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known. all that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew
ch we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, i at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and
all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real
knowledge. in this mood of mind i betook myself to the mathematics and the branches of study appertaining to that science as being built upon secure foundations, and so
worthy of my consideration
what is the main benefit of letting the narrator describe a human's inability to stop nature?
it creates an unrealistic sense of the powerful nature of the narrator.
it creates tension in that all events are seen against coming failure and grief.
it suggests the events are more or less within the narrator's control.
it suggests the narrator is growing more and more .