Compare the ways in which the writers of your chosen texts make use of the natural world.

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the novel are stripped of their identity and therefore any responsibility, the garden gives Serena joy something to care for. Serena joy also `has a chair brought out, and just sits in it, in her garden.' The poignant use of `her' emphasises the importance of the gardens to the Wives as none of the women own anything, they don't even have autonomy or a say over how their own body is used. Thus, highlighting the importance of nature throughout the novel, it allows a sense of freedom, although restricted, it still creates hope for repressed characters such as Offred and Serena Joy. Similarly, in Frankenstein, the Creature is thrown into a spiral of depression and misery after he is rejected by society because of his appearance. Nature acts as his companion and comforter when he is forced into solitude, he exclaims, `These bleak skies hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings.' He respects and regards nature as if it is his friend, painting the Creature out to be a ...

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flowers are symbolic of the normality Offred once had, "On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed by with no glass; a print of flowers, blue irises, water-colour'. Perhaps the blue flowers embody a world that has disappeared, a world of freedom and familiarity that has been corrupted in Gilead. Offred's comfort with the flowers is jarred by the lack of glass in the frame; this absence reminds her that the world she recognises has been perverted into a nightmare. Offred is aware that the innocent flowers she observes all around her are the last concrete connections to the world she knew before Gilead became her reality. Which now have no reality in her existence as a subservient ...

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