Narrative technique in Frankenstein
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- Narrative technique
- Chinese box structure
- Walton, Frankenstein, Creature, Frankenstein, Walton.
- Puts C at the heart of the novel.
- Links seemingly unrelated stories together.
- Highlights similarities between Walton and Frankenstein
- W disobeyed "father's dying injunction"
- Both exercise a self-pity.
- W - "My spirits are often depressed" p.14-15
- F - "More miserable than man ever was before" p.135
- Both think they're better than "common" people
- (W) "worked harder than the common sailors" p.14
- (F) "could not rank (himself) with the herd of common projectors" p.161
- All suffer from solitude.
- W - "I have no friend" p.16
- F - "I shunned the face of man" p.70
- C is "shunned and hated by all mankind" p.111
- "miserably alone" p.78
- "I am alone" p.169
- Allows a broader sense of truth.
- We find F "corrected and augmented" W's account of F's tale. P.160
- W hints that he thinks "imagination formed" F's tale p.160
- We learn about C's true nature, not just of the "monster" F sees him as.
- Before C was "wrenched by misery to vice and hatred" (p.167) he "glowed with love and humanity" p.78
- Find F contradicts himself constantly
- So desperate to appear in a good light that he gets confused.
- Says he is "not so selfish" as to make W continue his "pilgrimage" but then makes him "swear" to continue it p.159
- "poor unhappy Justine, was as innocent as I" p.141
- "they all died by my hands" p.141
- "I was innocent" p.133
- So desperate to appear in a good light that he gets confused.
- F speaks of the danger in C as he is "eloquent and persuasive" p.159 But W talks about F's "eloquence" p.162
- F and C's narratives become increasingly similar
- Both think they've suffered the most.
- F thinks he was "more miserable than man ever was before" p.135
- (C) "bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification" p.88
- Use of the superlative
- Both speak of life being pointless.
- C - "why did I live?" p.104
- F - "why did I not then expire/" p.149
- Both think they've suffered the most.
- Makes us aware of how privileged F is.
- "I provided myself with a sum of money" p. 154
- Thinks "no creature had ever been so miserable" as him. p.151 but he had support through money, friends, family etc. whereas C didn't.
- F ends up in cemetery where he started by mourning his mother.
- What's worse; having people you loved taken away from you, or never having loved or been loved by anyone?
- Chinese box structure
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