Frankenstein Pages 81-166 FRAME

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

As told before the story was began, this story is a frame story. Therefore, a story was told within a story, which was in another story. We heard the monster's story in Frankenstein's story, which was in Walton's story. The structure adds to the insertion of other literary techniques, for example, foreshadowing. Because the story is told of past events, the character's elude easily to events that haven't yet happened in their retelling of the story. The perspective of the story also presents a picture in the reader's mind, because the picture might have changed had the perspective been different. The perspective also allows for a slight prejudice to be shown through the transfer of the stories.The creature tries to correct any possible bias by telling Walton that though Frankenstein told Walton the story, he did not know of the severity of the struggles that the creature himself faced (Shelley, 165). The frame story structure of the novel also set up the suspense of the novel. The suspense was created through the many gaps that were created at the very beginning of the novel that were not all filled until the very end.