Narration in frankenstein
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The novel begins with written letters from Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret who lives in England. Shelley uses first person to bring the reader into the middle of the story as fluidly as possible. The narrator then switches the point of view to that of Victor Frankenstein where he starts narrating his own life. The novel is started this way to make the reader want to know how, and why things ended up the way they did.
Victor Frankenstein's life started out normally. He had normal parents and siblings but he had a tragic flaw, the lust for knowledge. If not for this flaw, Frankenstein would have suffered a different fate. Rather than creating the monster, he may have only played the idea of creating another being. But Dr. Frankenstein couldn't merely create the idea, it had to be realized...