Examples Of Generosity In Frankenstein

While telling the story Frankenstein, Mary Shelley shows us that those who receive generosity from those who are more privileged than them usually end up living a better life themselves. The first example we see of this is Caroline Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein’s mother. While Victor is telling his backstory to Robert Walton, he tells the story of his father meeting his mother, and talks of how his friend Beaufort goes into poverty, and as he’s dying, he meets his daughter, Caroline, who’s taking care of her father. Victor states “…and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar. This last blow overcame her, and she knelt by Beaufort’s coffin weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber. He