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Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Frankenstein
2.1 Light and Warmth as Positive Forces
2.2 The Monster and Images of Light and Warmth
2.3 Symbolisms of Coldness and Darkness
2.4 Frankenstein and the Monster: Clashes of Fire and Water
2.5 The Two Opposing Sides of Fire
3. The Last Man
3.1 Fire, Light, Warmth and Love
3.2 Cold, Darkness, Misery, and Isolation
3.3 The Sun Reversed: The Symbolism of Shelley’s “Black Orb”
3.4 Light and Darkness Combined: The Symbolism of Stars
3.5 Raymond, Fire, and Destruction
3.6 “The Checked Waters of Misery” (TLM 176): Perdita’s Suicide
4. Falkner
4.1 “A Soft, but Penetrating Fire” (F:215): The Symbolism of Warmth and Light
4.2 Warmth and Light as Female Attributes
4.3 Fire and Love in Falkner
4.4 Falkner, Fire, and Destruction
4.5 Darkness as a Means to Conceal the Truth
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
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- Franziska Müller (Author), 2015, Images of Fire, Warmth and Light in Mary Shelley’s Novels, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/345642
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