Response To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein '

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2. The narrator for a majority of this novel is Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist, which makes it a first person point of view.
3. A tone found in this book is dedication. It is shown through Victor Frankenstein’s persistence in finding what is power behind life.
4. This story takes place in Geneva, Switzerland for the majority but Victor travels multiple times throughout the 18th century.
5. The major conflict in Frankenstein is the monster. This means that everything goes wrong due to what the monster does from murdering innocent people directly and indirectly to forcing Victor to make a woman monster for him to love.
6. There are two resolutions in Frankenstein. The major resolution is when Victor died and the monster is saddened and says he will go light himself on fire since he was a destructive creation. The other is when Walton is enlightened by and believed Victor’s life story and, in turn, he ends up forgetting his ambitions and heads back home so that he will not become victimized by his choices, like Victor.
7. The main character in this novel is Victor Frankenstein. He changes from being focused on creating life to regretting it because his creation murdered everybody that he had loved. Victor claims this after he creates the
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Since Victor was somewhat careless in forging this beast, when he says, “I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.” (Shelley 177) he means that yes the monster is his mistake yet he doesn’t do anything because he fears the monster and what others would think of him. Victor is not able to correct his mistake due to his selfishness and the burden of knowing that he was the creator of the killer of everybody in his

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