Frankenstein Book Club

Hey GUYS!!!!! Were back this week to talk about Frankenstein and nobody else came to the meeting so i am just going to present what i have found. Soooooo this week mittens and i decided that we wanted to talk about a few things, Victor's very loving relationship with his sister, the purpose and effect of the letters at the beginning of the novel, and the Romantic style of writing. (BTDUBS its not the kind of Romance you guys are thinking about.... TEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE.) So firstly, i would like to clear up this relationship between Victor and his sister, you see it seemed weird to me first too like why would he be that close with his sister..? Mr.Mittens agrees with me. Anyway, i did some digging and i found out that it was very hard to get around and socialize outside of the home in England at this time. You had to stay inside the home and when you spend all of every day in the house with your family you get close to them. (OH MY GOSH IT is just like Me and the CAT!!) Secondly, the letters at the beginning of the novel, what do they do for us? What they do is they set up a frame for the rest of the book. The letters and the contents of the letters are given to us as something to think about throughout the whole book because they might help us connect something later. Lastly, i would like to mention the very Romantic style of writing the Frankenstein is written with. If you haven't noticed they talk about nature a lot. I mean a LOT. Whenever the Doctor  needs to think he goes out to nature and it turns out that is a very Romantic characteristic of writing.

Now what do these things do for the novel, why are they important? When speaking in context of the relationship between Victor and his sister, it is better to explain it as a part of the novel being written with such a Romantic style. During Romantic era England the family being close thing was important. The style that the novel was written in is important because it establishes the time in history that the novel as written and that itself improves the quality of the novel. Also, the letters are very important to the novel because they help us realize things about both Victor and Captain Walton. For instance, how good of friends they became so easily:). Ok, well i have to go feed mittens, he's getting snappy with me(that's how i know he is hungry.) I really hope i see everyone at next week's meeting, but i mean you don't have to come if you don't want to, ill just have it with mittens again. No pressure guys just give it some thought, you know if you aren't doing anything. Goodnight!