What is Frame narrative? , Main narrators, Charts of narrating style in Frankenstein, Letters, Narrative techniques, character perspectives, Frame structure , suspense, Science

1. Name: Joshi Riddhi
Roll no: 30
Paper no.5 The Romantic Literature
M.A: Sem-2
Enrolment no: 2069108420180028
Year: 2017-19
E-mail: Www.riddhij8@gmail.com
Submitted to:
Smt. S.B Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Frame Narrative in Frankenstein

2. What is Frame Narrative?
• Frame narrative is literary
technique that some times serves
as a story within story. Whereby
an introductory or main narrative
is presented, at list in part, for the
purpose of setting the stage either
for a more emphasized second
narrative or for a set of shorter
stories. The frame story leads
readers from a first story in to
another, smaller [or several ones]
within it.

3. What is Narration ?
• Narration is the way in which a story is told.
• The narrator tells us the story its, first person
narration and hence ‘I’ is used while the story
is told.
• The narrator speaks from outside.
• Narration is in the third person.

4. COMPLEXITY OF NARRATION IN
FRANKENSTEIN
• Unable to narrate in to ability and normally.
The creature attempts to narrate.
• Disfigurement that ‘monster’ Frankenstein’s
narration is complex.

5. MAIN NARRATOR
• Captain Robert Walton writes letters to his
sister Margaret Saville.
• Typical epistolary manner.
• Victor recounts his history to walton who
takes notes.

6. (Narrator)
Walton
(1st
Audience)
Saville
(2nd
Audience)
Reader

7. (Narrator)
Monster
(2nd Audience)
Walten
(3rd Audience)
Saville
(4th Audience)
Reader
(1st
Audience)
Victor

8. Narrator
De LACEYS
1st audience Monster
2nd audience Victor
3rd audience Walten
4th audience Saville
5th audience Reader

9. LETTERS
• letters appear many times
• Captain Walten’s letters
• The bulk of the story is told
• Letters of his beloved Justine’s
story

10. SOME PIECES OF NARRATIVE
TECHNIQUE
• “Happy happy earth! Fit habitation for Gods...
The present was tranquil, and the future gilded
by bright rays of hope, and anticipation a joy.”
• “The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not
endure.”
• “The best hope and the purest creature of
earth.”
• The above extract shows the richness of
narration and the marvellous qualitative writing
technique of Mary Shelly many faced novel.

11. CHARACTER PERSPECTIVES
• A story within story
• Reader to get several character perspectives.
• Three characters [ Walton, Victor,
The Monster ]
• Switching narrators outright

12. FRAME STRUCTURE
• Shelly builds suspense
from the beginning.
• Pursuits of the Monster,
the reader wants to know
what has made Victor so
sick
• Search a remote location.

13. SUSPENSE
• Shelly make use of
suspense and
technique of
flashback
• well depicted in the
novel deliberately by
the novelist.

14. SCIENCE
• Victor and Walton are mirror characters
• Victor stop Walton
• He has to loss will be vain