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A short summary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Frankenstein.
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Summary. Captain Walton introductory narrative. Frankenstein is a frame story written in epistolary form. Set in the 18th century, it documents a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville.
Frankenstein Summary The novel opens with Robert Walton writing a letter to Margaret Saville, his sister. Robert Walton is the captain of a ship that is headed towards the North Pole.
Letter 1. On December 11th, sometime in the 18th century, Robert Walton writes to his sister Margaret that he's sailing to the North Pole to explore its unearthly beauty. His goals are to discover the lands beyond the Pole and to find the source of the Pole's magnetism. He doesn't know if or when he'll be back.
Overview. First published in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Shelley. It is written in the tradition of Romanticism, a late 18th-century and early 19th-century movement that responded to the Enlightenment. Rejecting rationalism, Romantic literature often celebrated the power of nature and of the individual.
