Mary Shelley’s debut novel Frankenstein has been read varyingly as
a moral-cautionary tale, political allegory, science fiction and even as a
psychological thriller. Irrespective of the nature of interpretation, the
question of language remains important both as an explicit theme of the novel
and also stylistically as implicit in the powerfully structured epistolary model
of a story within a story. ... This essay intends to analyse the significant
role of the evolution of the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein
which strengthens the tragic mould of the novel by exploring various themes
such as monstrosity as a construct, story-telling as a tool of self-empowerment
and the relation between the creator and creation.
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