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(50 POINTS FRANKENTEIN) (PLS WRITE A GOOD PARAGRAPH OR 2 CER RESPONE CLAIM, EVIDENCE, REASONING)Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein contains three embedded narratives: Robert Walton’s letters to his sister, Victor Frankenstein’s telling of his life story to Walton, and the creature’s telling of his own story to Frankenstein. Why might Shelley have decided to use this nested narrative structure? How does it impact the reader’s experience or interpretation of events in the novel? How does it affect our view of each narrator?

Answer 1

In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister back in England the progress of his dangerous mission. Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sledge across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him aboard ship, helps nurse him back to health, and hears the fantastic tale of the monster that Frankenstein created.Victor first describes his early life in Geneva. At the end of a blissful childhood spent in the company of Elizabeth Lavenza (his cousin in the 1818 edition, his adopted sister in the 1831 edition) and friend Henry Clerval, Victor enters the university of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. There, he is consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life and, after several years of research, becomes convinced that he has found it.

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