This novel occurs on a ship traveling towards the North Pole in the eighteenth century. There are about 6 different main locations described throughout the entire novel and most of them are connected to Victor, whether it’s family of places he lived or visited or even just passed through. Some important settings that parallel each other would be Geneva and England and Scotland. “We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city” (Shelly 18). These settings parallel each other because these are places where Victor has lived or traveled to many times. These settings are effective in supporting the ideas in the novel as a whole because they show
