Assignment:
The first three chapters tell us about Victor Frankenstein's childhood and youth; the fourth, about his "discovery" of the principle of life. For movie fans, these chapters may seem irrelevant: after all, we want to see the Creature being created and-amid bursts of smoke and flashes of lightning-"born." Why, then, does Mary Shelley devote so much space to Victor's childhood environment and his education?
Readings:
Frankenstein
By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley