Frankenstein Six

"Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm." pg. 30

The beauty and strength of the church, as Shelley writes, is contrasted with the worms hidden beneath the soil in the graveyard, gnawing at the fleshy remains of those buried below. Death is not full of strength or beauty; it is decaying and weak and sorrowful. Darkness usually appears in close proximity to Light, and in the human sense, people must be careful to misjudge others to which category they fall. First appearances have a way of hiding the most important characteristics of things.