The setting of the novel ranges all over Europe, emphasizing places with which Shelley herself was familiar: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, and even the Arctic. The tale begins and ends in the Arctic with the explorer Robert Walton seeking a northwest passage. On his journey he first meets Victor Frankenstein and then the monster himself. The arctic atmosphere itself is a fitting symbol for the scientific enterprise on which Frankenstein has embarked and Walton is embarking. The landscape is barren and white: it is human beings who turn the landscape and scientific creation into colorful creation or black horror.
As Dr. Frankenstein lies dying, he recounts his history to Walton. When he speaks of his home in Geneva by a blue lake and snowy mountains, his description is filled with warmth, light, and love. At age seventeen Frankenstein became a student at the University of Ingolstadt, in upper Bavaria, where he later creates his monster.
Frankenstein recoils from his creation, and the monster flees. The rest of the novel follows the theme of pursuit and thus ranges over Europe. Frankenstein has a nervous breakdown and returns to the peacefulness of home. To cure his despair, he wanders on one occasion to the valley of Chamounix. Here, he meets the monster again. Shelley's descriptive powers heighten whenever she presents the monster against a background of sublime and terrifying nature. Frankenstein is mountain climbing across a "troubled sea" of ice (prophetic of the setting at the end of the novel) when the monster bounds toward him over the ice crevices.
As the monster tells of his adventures since his creation, the scene shifts to Germany and the humble cottage of the De Laceys, whom the monster has watched to learn how people act and talk. After promising to make a mate for the monster, Frankenstein plans a trip to England with his friend Clerval. On their way they travel leisurely on the Rhine. From London they travel north to Edinburgh, where they separate. All the time the monster has been following them. Frankenstein goes to a remote Orkney Island to create his female monster. In desolate surroundings the monster again appears and vows revenge when Frankenstein destroys the female creature.
Frankenstein goes sailing to get rid of the female body parts, and his boat is blown off course to Ireland. There he is accused of his friend Clerval's murder and is thrown into prison, where he again has a mental collapse. Released into his father's custody, he returns to Geneva, but this time the powers of home fail to heal. The monster takes his complete revenge, and Frankenstein vows to follow him until he can rid the world of the fiend he has created. The pursued becomes the pursuer.
Mary Shelly authored Frankenstein. The book was first published in 1818 anonymously in England. In 1823 the book was published again in France with Shelly as the author. A common error is that Frankenstein was the name of the monster, buy it was actually name of the scientist who created the monster.
Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
Women in Shelly's Frankenstein are portrayed as passive, usually being caregivers or victims.
Dead Body Parts
Popular idea was he was either a Doctor or a Medical student- hence Doctor Frankenstein. Strictly speaking, it is a sort of courtesy rank, he is not described as Dr. Frankenstein in the novel.
Frankenstein was set in Geneva although Victor Frankenstein travels throughout Europe in the course of the book, visiting the Mont Blanc, the river Rhine and the North Pole.
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Frankenstein was the main character; the man who created the monster. The other title of the book is The Modern Prometheus.
The book was published in 1818 by ninteen year old Mary Shelley. I believe it was also set in the 1820's.
He wasn't Frankenstein was a character in a book, Frankenstein's Monster by Mary Shelley.
Dr. Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is the name of the scientist that made the monster out of dead body parts. Therefore the answer to your question is: Mr. & Mrs. Frankenstein.
In the 1942 book, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus the stranger is Meursault, a French Algerian.
Approximately 74, 726 words are in Frankenstein; give or take.
it has a gothic genre
Mary shelly
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