Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
One evening when Byron, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley and John Polidori were together in Geneva, Byron suggests that they should each write a ghost story to pass the time.
Polidori wrote The Vampyre and Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein inspired by a dream she saw at the time.
It is a gothic novel.
The novel starts with letters and the writer of these letters, Robert Walton, is the first narrator of the book.
They come across Dr. Frankenstein, the second narrator. Dr. Frankenstein tells his story to Robert Walton and Walton shares it with his sister in the letters.
The third narrator is the monster, telling his side of the story to Dr. Frankenstein.
After Victor dies, Robert Walton again becomes the narrator and brings the story to an end.
