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Select two contrasting extracts from the novel (of up to one page each) which illustrate the
different narrative voices Shelley creates. Think about tone, style, pace, language and
structure.
Page
reference:
Who is
narrating?
Join up with a partner and compare your extracts. Do you agree? Why/why not? What are the
similarities?
Extension task
Many readers have found the novel’s ending unsatisfactory, with some narrative strands and
characters left hanging. Write a final chapter for the novel which would come after the creature
is ‘borne away by the waves’.
You can choose your narrator and form (epistolary, journal or first person recount) as well as the
date. Make sure you employ the stylistic features of your chosen narrator.
1. How many narrators does Shelley employ? Who are they? Where do we see them?
Walton: letters to sister ‘frame’ the whole narrative
Frankenstein: narrates his story Volume 1 Chapter 1 – Volume 2 Chapter 2 and Volume 2
Chapter 9 – Volume 3 Chapter 7
Monster: Volume 2 Chapter 3 – Volume 2 Chapter 8
Elizabeth: letter to Frankenstein Volume 3 Chapter 5
Other voices: witness accounts at Frankenstein’s trial in Volume 3 Chapter 4
Page
pp. 212-3 p. 56-7
reference:
Who is Monster – his final rhetorical Frankenstein – the monster comes to
narrating? speech, within Walton’s letter. life.