Frankenstein

Does the monster explain in his prospective in a Romanticism way?

page 156 chapter 15

‘I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.

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Yes, there is romanticism about this excerpt. The creature uses pastoral and angelic imagery to illustrate all that is missing from his condemned and damned life.