The Narrator And Point Of View In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

A narrator and point of view are two entirely different things. The narrator is the person that delivers the story to the reader, and point of view is the narrator 's connection to the story being told. All stories are told by a narrator, not a character, but the narrator uses a point of view to tell the story. Author 's do this because, when done seamlessly, the reader will become engrossed and won 't be able to register how the story is being told. They won 't know whether or not it 's being told directly or through a character. Typically, narrator 's are present in first person or third person point of view and even though a narrator is created by an author, they should be thought of as a distinct person who is simply delivering the story. When writers use …show more content…
An author doesn 't want their reader to get bored, so by using several views it lets them shift heads and keep the reader on their toes. Mary Shelley does this in her novel Frankenstein. This novel is about a young man, Victor Frankenstein, who reconstructs a dead body and has a great guilt for creating such a thing. When the monster realizes how he came about and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on Victor 's family to satisfy his sorrow. In a novel, or story, tension evokes the emotions such as fear, worry, anxiety, and stress on the reader and the characters. At first, the idea of tension is a tad abstract, but we all experience it. Mary Shelley does an excellent job at creating tension in her novel. An example of this emotion in her text would be the monster. At the moment the monster was declared "alive",Victor shares his point of view in the line, "The hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the workings of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion” (Shelley 196). In this line, we can see the tension building as Victor gives details about what he 's