"You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which evne now curdles mine?" (page 155)
Frankenstein is an example of a frame story. There are multiple levels of story within a story. The first level of the story is letters from Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. The next tear of the frame story is Victor telling his story to Robert Walton. Walton is telling his sister of the time with Victor Frankenstein and the story he related to him. Also, within Victor's story is another level of the frame. The creature also tells a story in Victor's story that is being written to Margaret from Walton. The frame story is important to the novel becuase it allows readers to understand that the information being relayed is accurate. It also shifts sympathies of readers when the same events are told with different insights from different perspectives. Shelley uses the frame story well by doubling scenes and describing them from the perspective of the creature and Victor.
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