In Shelley's Frankenstein, what is Henry’s response to the scenery along the Rhine, and is this consistent with his character?Frankenstein by...

When he returns to Geneva, Victor is in a brown study as
he wrestles with his agreement to make a female for the creature as well as his shame
for the death of Justine and his dear brother William. Observant of his son's
despression, Alphonse Frankenstein urges Victor to marry Elizabeth; however, Victor
cannot in good conscience agree to do this in light of his awful agreement with his
creature.  When he understands that Victor will not marry, the father then suggests that
he travel with Henry to England.  Agreeing to do so, Victor embarks on his trip and
meets Henry in Strasbourg where they board a ship for
England.

It is a very picturesque scene that the two men
witness as they pass Mayence where the river winds between hills of beautiful shapes. 
Ruined castles rest on the edges of precipices, surrounded by the black forest.  In
contrast to this sharp view, there are rich vineyards, with sloping banks and quaint
towns.  As the Romantic character, Henry Clerval becomes ecstatic when he views the
beauty of the scenes:

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He felt as if he had been transported to
Fairyland, and enjoyed a happiness seldom tasted by
man.

Henry tells Victor of
the beauty of the lakes and mountains of Switzerland that are majestic and strange, but
the countryside by the Rhine, he says, pleases him more than "all those wonders." 
Clerval finds this area charming. Henry remarks,

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"Oh surely, the spirit that inhabits and guards
this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier, or
retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own
country."

As Victor listens
to his friend, he feels that Henry "was a being formed in the "very poetry of nature. 
His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his
heart.....The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he
loved with ardour:--

In this passage of
Frankenstein, Shelley recalls the locations that were favored by
the Romantics, the Alps, the Rhine, and Scotland.  She depicts Henry as an Emersonian
hero, in touch with the beauty and delight of nature as well as in communion with
others.  In a later passage in this chapter, Shelley also clearly extols the beauty of
friendship between man, a friendship greatly valued by the Romantics.  For, Victor
elegizes Henry, his foil, now lost to him:

Is this
gentle and lovely being lost for ever?....Does it now only exist in my memory?  No, it
is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but
your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy
friend.