Just Hear Me Out

"Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. But hear me."
Frankenstein, pg. 69

Here comes yet another frame story! At this point, we have three. Robert is telling the story that Victor tells that the creature is telling. I kind of hope we get a fourth teller, it could be interesting. It makes you wonder, have any of the facts been skewed? It's like a game of telephone. If this were real life, I would assume the facts have been skewed. However, I don't think Mary Shelley had any desire for her readers to believe the stories weren't reliable, so I'll take all the facts as truth. It is an interesting way of telling the story, of revealing how different characters talk and think. The creative way that Shelley gets characters to explain things reminds me of the creative way that the makers of the Hunger Games movie got Katniss's thoughts spoken. Things that were explained in Katniss' mind in the book were explained by the hosts of the game on the TV. While the two situations aren't similiar at first glance, they are both an example of creative ways of revealing information.