Frankenstein #8

The author Mary Shelley utilizes her ability to create suspense and bewilderment through her various literary techniques in Frankenstein. These techniques result in both motifs and themes that only an intricate story as such can achieve. Her ability to warp time so that a reader must keep up with multiple story lines entails a story that the reader desires to keep up with and strives to figure out. The suspense allows the reader to wonder what all is happening outside the current story being described by a vital character within the story. This continual development aids in the readers ability to focus in and understand the themes of death, life, and acceptance of love on a whole level. These help to better understand the complexity and development of the characters. The continual knowledge that both the monster and Victor live long enough to venture far from their home allows the reader to puzzle at what will happen next many times. The context clues and careful choice of diction create in Victors life this seemingly fragile state of being alive. In order for Victor to feel pain and better realize how vital the lives of those around him are, the author uses the monster to kill off friends and family that Victor would gladly trade places for in order to keep them alive. This gradual understanding of responsibility for personal choices and actions helps Victor understand that he cannot make a female creature. "Had I a right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?"(121) revealed that Victor was finally grasping his personal duties and what they entailed towards his creations.