An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use. The word epistolary comes from the Latin word epistola, meaning a letter. Note that in the Christian Bible, the later books were letters, or "epistles", written by the apostles to various congregations.
The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story, because it mimics the workings of real life. It is thus able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to the device of an omniscient narrator.
Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein (1818). Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records the dying man's narrative and confessions.
Robert Walton's journals at the beginning and end of the book can be described as epistolary; however Frankenstein's tale to Robert is arguably not epistolary what so ever. An epistolary novel is based on letters or diaristic entries: for example, many sea novels take the course through the ship's log or special diary written by a member of the crew.
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, William Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Henry Clerval, Elizabeth Lavenza-Frankenstein, and Victor Frankenstein (the protagonist) die. Though he does not die anytime WITHIN the novel, the monster is said to had departed for the northernmost ice to purposefully die after its creator (Victor) had died.
Frankenstein is a novel that was written by Mary Shelley about the scientist Victor Frankenstein.
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Mary shelleys most famous novel was Frankenstein, it revolutionised how we though of our picture of life
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There are actually three narrators in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein." Captain Walton on the outside, Victor Frankenstein on the inside, and the monster in isolated incidents.
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The novel Frankenstein does indeed start out as an epistolary novel however this form is quickly abandoned and it becomes (instead) a narrative by the Doctor and occasionally a second-hand narrative by the monster. I believe that Mary Shelley began with the intention of an epistolary novel, abandoned the form when things started going very well in the other way, and didn't bother to go back and change her beginning.
Victor Frankenstein was the main narrator, but some letters were narrated by Waldman
She is the author of the novel Frankenstein.
In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, William Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Henry Clerval, Elizabeth Lavenza-Frankenstein, and Victor Frankenstein (the protagonist) die. Though he does not die anytime WITHIN the novel, the monster is said to had departed for the northernmost ice to purposefully die after its creator (Victor) had died.
Mary Shelley's death was due to an infection in childbirth.
He proposed a ghost-story contest among his friends.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (by Mary Shelley).