Complex narrative structures raise questions about the narrative perspective, authority and reliability. Two works that illustrate the issues with complex narrative structures are Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’. Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who creates grotesque human-like creature in a scientific experiment. While Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ tells a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. Both works complex narrative structure complicates the reader understanding of the story. However, Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ complicates reader’s reliability in the narrators more than Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ because Shelley’s
