The book I chose was “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley. I read this book in high school and fell involve with Shelley’s use of descriptive adjectives to paint a picture of what Frankenstein looked like through words. By using a tool called Voyant, we are able to look at what words Shelley used to described the beast and look at analytical aspects of the novel.

By looking at this word art, we can see that the most used terms that Shelley used are: Man, Father, Elizabeth, Eyes and Feelings. The word man is used a majority of times in the book to describe Frankenstein. I do believe however that man was used a lot in the book because of the culture when this book was written. Second, the word Father is used to associate Alfonso, Victor’s Dad. Elizabeth is the love interest for Victor. Eyes in the book are a key theme to show off emotion and feelings.

This chart correlates with the book but also can be described in this weeks reading as the amount of times that a word is published din any form or written documentation. As we can see, the word “man” is used fare greater than any term in published books. The tool “Voyant” is a tool that would be classified as a Text Retrieval. By suing Voyant it analyzes every word in a text and builds graphs and data structures to provide further correlation to the book and its words.