structure Flashcards
how are letters seen as a parallel to the monster?
- in beginning, in a letter walton expresses his loneliness and foreshadows finding Vic
- for the monster that need was never fulfilled
- creates similarity between man and monster
explain the role of letters for scenery?
-sets scene for narrative to begin
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explain the role of letters when it explain Victors condition in beginning of the novel?
- reader sees end result of a trying story
- prepares reader for the journey within the letters whilst highlighting Victors weak state
why are the letters impotent at the end of the novel?
- allows for an end to be created for the monster
- necessary for the story to have an outcome not only structurally important but thematically
what would have happened to novel without use of letters?
- ending would be left open with no resolve
- creates a character reader can relate to
- allows for a mediator between 2 characters
explain how Frank is a framed narrative?
- there are stories within stories
- walton seems to be the preliminary narrater
- then vic and the monster
- cylindrical as it ends and starts with Walton
what is the clever name for a novel with letters?
-epistolary novel
what are an advantage of an epistolary novel that are seen in Frank?
-more than one correspondent= show same event from different view points
what is the clever name for fake realism?
-pseudo-documentary realism
how does pseudo-documentary realism give writer power?
- gives power over audiences because…
- there is a sense of reality and readers become attached
how does walton’s letters provide a different perspective?
- omniscient narrative and walton seems to do this from a god like altitude
- allows all views to be explored through 3 narrators
- represents human life that exceeds dimensions of any one individual
how is a consistent handling of view shown in Frank?
- evident as character placement and development is explicit
- this stops any formation of pot holes in reasoning
explain the change from individual to multiple voiced in the book?
- competing voices within frankenstein
- conventional letter form dissolve’s in the novel
how was being able to see the monster sPOV uncharacteristic of a gothic novel?
- invited sympathy for the monster
- there is little attempt to explain a monsters motives in most 18th/19th cent gothic
how do letters allow reader to understand walton as a narrator?
- establishes his character + status
- establishes credibility as we trust his judgement (anecdote supports)
- establishes why he is in north pole=no pot holes in continuity of novel
