... throughout her novel. We see this omnipotence when Victor describes the act of catching the monster as "impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain stream with a straw". Here we see Shelley use two analogies to which she defines impossibility, each depicting the act of a person attempting to restrain nature's sublimity. We also see ... ...

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