The first allusion made in the novel is to that of Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. She has chosen the structure of the novel similar to that of the poem. The poem is structured in framed layers. The first layer of the poem starts with where a wedding guest begins to tell about how he is grabbed aside on his way to a wedding ceremony by the ancient mariner. The mariner then begins to tell his story in the second layer of the poem, compelled to have anyone who will to hear it. He does this as a way of confession and relieve of his soul from the burden and grief he may feel for causing what had come upon his ship’s crew. Like the poem in the first layer, the novel “Frankenstein” begins with Robert Walton as the speaker,
