Frame narrative in Frankenstein
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This document discusses the frame narrative technique used in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It examines the complex narration through multiple narrators - Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster. The story is told through a series of letters, narratives, and flashbacks seen through different character perspectives. This creates a story within a story structure and builds suspense for the reader to understand the events that led Victor to his current state. The frame narrative is a key literary technique that Shelley employs in her famous novel.
![What is Frame Narrative?
* Frame narrative is literary
technique that some times serves as a
story within story, whereby an
introductory or main narrative is
presented, at list in part, for the
purpose of setting the stage either for
a more emphasized second narrative
or for a set of shorter stories. The
frame story leads readers from a first
story in to another, smaller [or several
ones] within it.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/framenarrative-140314032544-phpapp01/85/Frame-narrative-in-Frankenstein-2-320.jpg)
![Character perspectives
* A story within story
* Reader to get several
characters perspectives.
* Three characters
[Walton, Victor and
The Monster]
* Switching narrators
outright](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/framenarrative-140314032544-phpapp01/85/Frame-narrative-in-Frankenstein-11-320.jpg)
Frame narrative in Frankenstein
- 1. Topic: Frame Narrative in Frankenstein Paper Name: The Romantic Age Paper No.: 5 Name: Bhatt Urvi Roll No: 32 Std: M.A. Sem: 2 Submitted to: Department of English M.K.B.U.
- 2. What is Frame Narrative? * Frame narrative is literary technique that some times serves as a story within story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at list in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story in to another, smaller [or several ones] within it.
- 3. What is narration? * Narration is the way in which a story is told. * The narrator tells us the story its, first person narration and hence ‘I’ is used while the story is told. * The narrator speaks from outside * Narration is in the third person
- 4. Complexity of narration in Frankenstein * Unable to narrate in to ability and normalcy, the creature attempts to narrate * Disfigurement that ‘monster’ Frankenstein’s narration is complex
- 5. Main narrator * Captain Robert Walton writes letters to his sister Margaret Saville * Typical epistolary manner * Victor recounts his history to Walton who takes notes
- 8. Narrator De Laceys 1st audience Monster 2nd audience Victor 3rd audience Walton 4th audience Saville 5th audience Reader
- 9. Letters * Letters appear many times * Captain Walton’s letters * The bulk of the story is told * Letters of his beloved Justine's story
- 10. Some pieces of Narrative technique * “Happy happy earth! Fit habitation for Gods…the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope, and anticipation a joy.” * “The tranquility which I now enjoyed did not endure.” * “The best hope and the purest creature of earth.” * The above extracts shows the richness of narration and the marvelous qualitative writing technique of Mary Shelley many faced novel.
- 11. Character perspectives * A story within story * Reader to get several characters perspectives. * Three characters [Walton, Victor and The Monster] * Switching narrators outright
- 12. Frame structure * Shelly builds suspense from the beginning * Pursuits of the Monster, the reader wants to know what has made Victor so sick * search a remote location
- 13. Suspense • Shelley make use of suspense and technique of flashback • Well depicted in the novel deliberately by the novelist.
- 14. Science • Victor and Walton are mirror characters • Victor stop Walton • He has to loss will be in vain