3. Conflict/Plot; Throughout the story, the major conflicts mainly surrounded the Monster and Victor Frankenstein in their individual struggles like finding acceptance, obsession, and dealing with the consequences of one’s own actions, while the overall conflict was the cat-and-mouse game played by the two main characters throughout the entire story. In terms of storylines, the author really only develops 3 stories: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the Monster. One can argue that Elizabeth and Justine had a storyline developed, but that is a debatable topic. In terms of subplots, Shelley develops the subplot of Elizabeth and Victor’s relationship and the subplot of De Lacey and Felix’s life while the parallel plots are Robert Walton’s
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Point of View (POV): The point of view used in this novel was a combination of first person limited as well as the usage of multiple narrators via the main characters: Monster (chapter 11), Victor Frankenstein (majority of the novel), and Robert Walton (beginning and end). The significance of using multiple narrators as well as first person is to expose the audience into the thoughts, mindset, and motivations of the characters in order to enrich the story of the Monster and Dr. Frankenstein. The effects of using these POVs allows the audience in delve deeper and see what happened on both sides, the consequences, and bring forth the readers’ own conclusions on who is in the right and who is in the …show more content…
Symbolism: In Frankenstein, there are not a lot of symbols, but the two main ones would be fire and light. Light, in most novels, represent the good or the path to Enlightenment, which is generally just an obtainment of knowledge. Established in the first letter, “…the sun is forever visible…” and “…a country of eternal light…” (Shelley 15), light is glorified to be something positive. In addition to light, the multiple capabilities of fire is a significant symbol. Very much like light, it can be beautiful, but unlike light, it can be incredibly dangerous. In the Monster’s recount of his tale, he tells Frankenstein how he “found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars…(he) was overcome with delight at the warmth…(and) in (his) joy (he) thrust (his) hand in the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain” (Shelley 99-100). Fire can be both passionate, yet destructive as it is a necessity for survival, yet it can lead to one’s death as well. Both light and fire play the role of good and bad as there are limits to how close one should approach either of the
Point of View (POV): The point of view used in this novel was a combination of first person limited as well as the usage of multiple narrators via the main characters: Monster (chapter 11), Victor Frankenstein (majority of the novel), and Robert Walton (beginning and end). The significance of using multiple narrators as well as first person is to expose the audience into the thoughts, mindset, and motivations of the characters in order to enrich the story of the Monster and Dr. Frankenstein. The effects of using these POVs allows the audience in delve deeper and see what happened on both sides, the consequences, and bring forth the readers’ own conclusions on who is in the right and who is in the …show more content…
Symbolism: In Frankenstein, there are not a lot of symbols, but the two main ones would be fire and light. Light, in most novels, represent the good or the path to Enlightenment, which is generally just an obtainment of knowledge. Established in the first letter, “…the sun is forever visible…” and “…a country of eternal light…” (Shelley 15), light is glorified to be something positive. In addition to light, the multiple capabilities of fire is a significant symbol. Very much like light, it can be beautiful, but unlike light, it can be incredibly dangerous. In the Monster’s recount of his tale, he tells Frankenstein how he “found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars…(he) was overcome with delight at the warmth…(and) in (his) joy (he) thrust (his) hand in the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain” (Shelley 99-100). Fire can be both passionate, yet destructive as it is a necessity for survival, yet it can lead to one’s death as well. Both light and fire play the role of good and bad as there are limits to how close one should approach either of the