Question
How does Shelley use narrative structure in Frankenstein? (30 marks)
Mark scheme guidance:
- Frame narrative: Walton → Victor → Creature → Victor → Walton.
- Each narrator is unreliable: Victor blames the Creature; the Creature blames Victor; Walton is too impressed by Victor.
- The Creature's chapters (11–16) as the moral centre — without his voice, we only have Victor's hostile framing.
- Epistolary opening (letters to Margaret Saville) grounds the gothic in the domestic.
- Chinese-box structure creates mystery and gradual revelation.
- Top answers: argue the structure itself embodies the theme — multiple, competing accounts of responsibility.
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