How do Atwood and Shelley structure their narratives to be exciting?

Structure of narratives to make exciting....

• Sections in both Handmaid's:
  • Night, Day, Shopping, Waiting room, Nap, Household, Birth day, Soul Scrolls, Jezebel's, Salvaging
  • Frankenstein: Volumes, as well as different character p.o.v's structuring novel
• Gradual Revelation
• F uses Chinese Box
• Structure F is epistolary
• Both told audibly- F having either the creature or victor speaking (letters used to in F), while THT is told either through offred on tapes, or Prof piexoto
• F tells through the eyes of different narrators, while in THT its maily through Offred and the Piexoto at end
• Sporadic-THT
• F is Cyclical, Walton at beggining and end Both told in 1st person
• in F lots of melodramatic exclaimations, 'Abhored daemon!'
• Both novels openings are after big events and due to gradual revelation the reader is drawn in- THT set in what 'used' to be a gymnasium, due to recent formation of Gilead, opening of F is Walton's letters where Victor is found... Both authors draw readers in immediately by leaving a lot to be revealed instead of setting the story up immediately
• Both novels have surprising endings- Historical Notes, Victor dying, Creature about to die
• Climax at end
• to an extent both novels are speculative fiction…