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This 6 page paper discusses the settings in which Mary Shelley placed the characters in her novel, why they are important and what they add to the story. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to events occurring in the authors life or the time in which he/she is writing. This paper considers the way in which Mary Shelley used settings in her classic novel
Frankenstein. Discussion Although most people consider Frankenstein a horror story-thanks largely to Hollywoods interpretation of it and Boris Karloffs portrayal of the Creature-it is in reality a philosophical examination of
an age-old question: how far should man pry into natures processes? Dr. Victor Frankenstein crosses a number of boundaries in his quest to create life, making the subject matter of
the story extremely dark. Darkness thus plays a large part in the settings, which are, in the beginning, indoors: libraries, laboratories and classrooms, for instance. They suggest a closed, almost
inbred atmosphere, where scientists of questionable ability pore over books that should probably be left alone, and perform grisly experiments. Parts of the novel have a claustrophobic feeling to them,
so that the reader longs from someone to open a window or take a walk outside. In other cases, Shelley sets the story outdoors-in the mountains or on the ice
fields-so that a reader feels overwhelmed by nature. Frankenstein is actually a third-level recitation: it is told to the reader by Mr. Walton, who explains the story in letters
to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" device; that is, it sets the story within the frame provided by Waltons letters.
His first letter is sent from St. Petersburg, which already would presumably take readers out of any region they knew, and put them in a strange and desolate landscape. The
vast wastes of the polar regions seem tailor-made for suspense and horror stories, because anyone trapped there is utterly alone. No one will come for months, if at all, to
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