To explore the way one’s perception influences their identity, Shelley uses framed narrative. It starts off with Walton’s perspective and story, then Victor, and transitions to the monster’s. Shelley mainly uses a framed narrative, to differentiate between the different perspectives, and to make it easier for the reader to analyze how the individual characters are being perceived and how they personally perceive themselves. Framed narration is essential to Frankenstein, as it embodies the barrier between the opposing perspectives. The effects of the framed narrative are shown when the monster finally gets to tell his side of the story to Victor. When he tells Victor of observing the family in the cottage he says, “But I was shut out from intercourse