Read these lines: "I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight." What do the quoted lines show about the writer?

1. 1. The cold breeze braces his nerves and fills him with delight, so cold pleases rather than troubles him. 2. 2. He says he tries in vain to be persuaded that the pole is frost and desolation, which means the gloomy view will not stick. 3. 3. What does stick is the pole as a region of beauty and delight. 4. 4. Dread reverses his feeling, and nothing here says he has reached the pole or means to turn back. _Source: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)_