Literary Techniques In Frankenstein By Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley’s style in the novel Frankenstein is quite enthralling. Shelley is a very eloquent writer, and she writes with a romantic style. Mary Shelley is highly appealing to her readers’ emotions. The tone in the novel changes throughout, as well as the narrator. Her use of diction, sentence structure, and tone tells the reader multiple things about Mary Shelley herself. One thing Shelley did quite often in Frankenstein is change who was telling the story. It begins with Robert Walton writing letters to his sister, telling Victor Frankenstein’s story. Then switches to Victor’s point of view, and lastly to the monster. She also changes her tone multiple times, which effects the emotions the reader feels while reading Frankenstein. For example,