![]() In addition, the Creature’s own detailed streaming voice narration (Volume II, Chapter III – VIII) speaks directly to the reader with lamentation one would not expect from such an abomination. ![]() For example, while Victor Frankenstein’s streaming consciousness voice narration through Walton’s manuscript serves as the principal voice mechanism, letters from Elizabeth Lavenza and Alphonse Frankenstein to Victor (Volume I, Chapter V & VI and Volume III, Chap V) also serve as framing devices for the story’s narration. Shelley layers these framing devices within Captain Robert Walton’s journal manuscript addressed to his sister. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” directly addresses the reader through an epistolary narrative voice, a style which leverages assembled letters, journals, manuscripts, and other similar documents as narration mode framing devices.
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