Author: Mary Shelley
Pages: 177/429
"Frankenstein" switches locations constantly. The story starts on a bout that is sailing along the northern ice. Later on in the story Victor Frankenstein (the protagonist) goes to college in Ganeva, then after a sudden turn of events finds himself back home in Ganeva, afterwards traveling to the Alps (throughout the rest of the story the locations keep changing). The exact time is not specified, though it happens in around the eighteenth century.
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" It was nearly noon when i arrived at the top of the scent. For some time I sat upon the rock that overlooks the sea of ice. A mist covered both that and the surrounding mountains. Presently, a breeze dissipated the cloud, and i descended upon the glacier. The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep. The field of ice is almost a league in width, but i spent two hours crossing it. The opposite mountain is a bare perpendicular rock. From the side where I now stood Montavernt was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mount Blanc, in awful majesty. I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene.
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When I was reading this book, it was really confusing in the beginning but it got really interesting :)
ReplyDeleteI didint quite understand it at the beginning either, but it resolves, And it is so beautifully written.
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